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Health & Science

  • Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

    Paraguay to require yellow fever vax when travel includes risk areas

    The measure becomes effective Monday, Feb. 14

    In times when controversies over COVID-19 vaccination mandates keep mounting worldwide, Paraguay's authorities Friday announced a proof of immunization against yellow fever will be required to travelers arriving from or leaving for Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela.

  • Friday, February 11th 2022 - 22:54 UTC

    No booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Denmark

    Denmark is one of the countries to have carried out the most coronavirus tests per inhabitant in the world

    Denmark's health authorities decided Friday that no fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine is to be applied and that there was no need for a booster dose to those aged under 18, thanks to the high level of immunization among the population, in addition to Omicron's lesser severity as well as other seasonal considerations.

  • Friday, February 11th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

    Mexico City Mayor takes flak for supporting use of ivermectin against COVID-19

    Sheinbaum is ahead in most polls to succeed AMLO in 2024

    Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum came under heavy flak Thursday for her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for the alleged manipulation of a study which recommended the use of ivermectin to treat this disease.

  • Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 19:19 UTC

    Prince of Wales has COVID-19... again

    The Prince of Wales had already suffered from COVID-19 in March 2020

    The 73-year-old Prince Charles of Wales Thursday tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time, the Office of the heir to the British throne announced. His Royal Highness had already been infected early into the pandemic.

  • Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

    COVID-19 infections fall but deaths rise, PAHO says

    “Countries with high immunization are seeing fewer serious cases and deaths,” Etienne said

    The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Wednesday reported the wave of COVID-19 infections in Latin America caused by the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 was beginning to decline.

  • Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

    HMS Protector officer visits “his island” in Antarctica

    The Pitt Islands are uninhabited – except for the region's wildlife (Picture: Royal Navy).

    No man is an island – apart from Royal Navy officer Lieutenant Commander Dave Pitt. Currently deployed on survey ship HMS Protector, Lt Cdr Pitt has become possibly the first Pitt to set foot on the Pitt Islands.

  • Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

    Acoustic survey finds twilight zone in Southern ocean an emporium of fish, BAS report

    The top image shows a lanternfish species commonly found in more northerly sectors of the Southern Ocean – Protomyctophum bolini – with the highly reflective gas swimbladder clearly visible.

    A new study highlights there could be up to four times more fish in the mesopelagic, or ‘twilight’, zone of the Southern Ocean than previously thought. Scientists at British Antarctic Survey and Bristol University discovered that by accounting for different acoustic properties of fish, the biomass, or total weight, of mesopelagic fish is likely to be 1.8 – 3.6 times higher than they previously calculated.

  • Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

    Saskatchewan to lift all Covid-19 restrictions following protests

    “This policy has run its course,” Premier Scott Moe told a news conference

    The Canadian province of Saskatchewan will lift as of midnight next Sunday all originally imposed as a responde to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced Tuesday. The new measures are a consequence of protests demanding a new approach at the disease, which is currently less severe as opposed to the economic consequences stemming from lockdowns and other limitations imposed on people.

  • Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

    Chile starts applying 4th dose of COVID-19 vaccine

    Piñera took his shot while on vacation little over one month from going into retirement

    Chile Monday began applying the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to its population after Jan. 10 additional boosters were injected to people with comorbidities, health care staff and those over 55 years of age as infections due to the Omicron variant was on the rise.

  • Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

    Commonwealth and WHO agree to work on universal health care and resilient health systems

    The ceremony was held at the WHO Headquarters in Geneva by the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Rt. Hon. Patricia Scotland QC, and the WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros.

    The Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Health Organization (WHO) signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) committing to strengthening their collaboration on a broad range of public health issues of particular concern to Commonwealth member states and governments, such as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine equity, advancing universal health coverage, and building resilient health systems.