Health & Science

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  WHO official anticipates third wave of Covid-19 in Europe, early 2021; “countries failed to prepare in summer”

  

  A World Health Organization (WHO) special Covid-19 envoy predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021 if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to prevent the second wave of infections.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Germany ready to begin Covid-19 vaccination in mid-December

  

  Germany could start administering shots of COVID-19 vaccines as soon as next month, Health Minister Jens Spahn was quoted as saying.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  US top disease center, CDC, advises against cruise travel: risk of Covid-19 is “very high”

  

  The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has advised against cruise ship travel, as the risk of Covid-19 on liners is very high.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  US expects to begin Covid-19 vaccination by mid-December, a day after regulatory approval

  

  US healthcare workers and others recommended for the nation’s first Covid-19 inoculations could start getting shots within a day or two of regulatory consent next month, a top official of the US government’s vaccine development effort said on Sunday.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Nine year old invents a portable “lunar toilet” for astronauts and wins NASA's challenge 2020

  

  A 9-year-old Malaysian boy has come up with a solution to a long-standing dilemma faced by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa): a gravity-defying loo for its next lunar mission.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  Pfizer wants emergency distribution of its vaccine simultaneously in US, Europe and Latin America

  

  US drugmaker Pfizer Inc is hoping to rapidly roll out its experimental COVID-19 vaccine around Latin America soon after it gets emergency authorization in the United States, a senior executive said, which could be as early as next month.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  FDA to meet December 10 to decide emergency use of Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines

  

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's outside advisers will meet on Dec. 10 to discuss whether to authorize the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech for emergency use, the agency said on Friday.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:24 UTC

  Dr. Fauci blessings to the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines

  

  The United States' top infectious disease official said that two coronavirus vaccines being tested were “solid”, and that the speed at which they were developed has not compromised safety or integrity.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:12 UTC

  G-20 must help plug US$ 5,4bn funding gap for the Covid-19 program, global leaders request

  

  G-20 nations must help plug a US$4.5 billion funding gap for a WHO-led program to distribute coronavirus vaccines and pave the way for an end to the pandemic, according to a letter sent by several world leaders, ahead of this weekend's virtual G20 summit.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  G-20 committed to support vulnerable countries beyond a temporary foreign debt freeze

  

  The Group of 20 (G-20) nations are determined to continue doing everything possible to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, warning in a draft communiqué that the global economic recovery remains “uneven, highly uncertain, and subject to elevated downside risks”.