Health & Science

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 07:49 UTC

  WHO working closely with (ten) countries responding to monkey-pox

  

  WHO and partners are working to better understand the extent and cause of an outbreak of monkeypox. The virus is endemic in some animal populations in a number of countries, leading to occasional outbreaks among local people and travelers. The recent outbreaks reported across 11 countries so far are atypical, as they are occurring in non-endemic countries.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 07:45 UTC

  Queues of vessels waiting to cross the Panama Canal as post pandemic global trade picks up

  

  Global transportation bottlenecks that have surged since the pandemic have shaken industries, consumers, deliveries, and prices. Clear evidence of this can be seen in the current Panama Canal queues of vessels.

• Friday, May 20th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  WHO greenlights CanSino single-dose Covid-19 vax for emergency use

  

  The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday granted an emergency approval to the CONVIDECIA vaccine against COVID-19 developed by China's CanSino Biologics.

• Thursday, May 19th 2022 - 23:48 UTC

  Reach the World to Honor the Endurance22 Expedition with the 2022 Cronkite Award

  

  The Endurance22 expedition will receive Reach the World’s 2022 Cronkite Award for Excellence in Storytelling. Reach the World will present the award at its Annual Benefit in New York City on July 20, 2022.

• Wednesday, May 18th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  Argentina's society outraged as President “buys his way out of lockdown”

  

  Argentina's society was outraged Tuesday after it was announced that President Alberto Fernández and First Lady Fabiola Yáñez were let off the hook for violating the lockdown he had himself decreed during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Vizzotti says Argentina entering fourth wave of COVID-19

  

  Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Monday confirmed the country was going through its fourth wave of COVID-19. The official also pointed out that “we are in a different situation” now.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Monkeypox in UK, apparently from Nigeria: extensive contact tracing in Britain

  

  On 7 May 2022, WHO was informed of a confirmed case of monkeypox in an individual who travelled from the United Kingdom to Nigeria. The case developed a rash on 29 April 2022 and returned to the United Kingdom on 4 May. Monkeypox was suspected and the case was immediately isolated.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 01:02 UTC

  China's Sinovac Biotech building vaccine plant in Chile investing US$ 100 million

  

  Chinese pharmaceutical Sinovac Biotech Ltd which makes one of the vaccines against Covid 19 most in several Latin American countries initiated on Thursday the construction of its first fill and finish plant in Chile, consolidating its presence in the Latin American country that has used its Covid-19 shot the most.

• Saturday, May 14th 2022 - 07:29 UTC

  Should a 12-year-old sign contract with parents to have a cell phone?

  

  A Twitter user who goes by the alias of “Judge the Ripper” launched a survey seeking approval for a measure he and his wife allegedly devised to buy their 12-year-old daughter a cell phone.

• Friday, May 13th 2022 - 19:51 UTC

  Uruguay to start 4th round of covid-19 vaccination next week

  

  Uruguay's Health Ministry (MSP) Friday announced the approval of a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine for all people between 18 and 49 years of age.