Health & Science

• Thursday, February 3rd 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Three BAS scientists awarded the Polar Medal

  

  Three British Antarctic Survey (BAS) staff have been awarded the Polar Medal. The announcement was published Friday 28 January in the London Gazette.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 - 09:14 UTC

  PAHO says 255 babies do not make it past their first month in the region every day

  

  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Tuesday said 255 babies under a month old died in Latin America and the Caribbean every day, while 7 out of every 1,000 newborns do not even reach that age.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  First case of new sublineage of omicron detected in Argentina

  

  Argentine health authorities Tuesday confirmed the first case of COVID-19 caused by the sublineage BA.2 of the coronavirus omicron variant., which is said to be two to three times more contagious than the original omicron.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 21:43 UTC

  Pfizer ready to deliver vaccine for kids under 5 before February's end, if okayed

  

  Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has announced it planned to submit a COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of 5 to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United for emergency authorization. If approved, it would be the first such drug available in the United States for that age group.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Britain helping the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo with a Covid-19 genome-sequencing project

  

  The British government and the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo, Uruguay, have announced they will be working jointly in an agreement that will help advance the genome-sequencing of Covid-19 project, through techniques under development in Uruguay, using British technology, and thus providing this capacity to several countries in the region.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Now that billions have been vaccinated, how do we manage Covid-19 health care waste challenge?

  

  As hundreds of millions have been vaccinated against the pandemic, another challenge has emerged, tens of thousands of tons of extra medical waste from the response to COVID-19 has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the world, threatening human and environmental health and exposing a dire need to improve waste management practices, according to a new WHO report.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Diplomatic solution found to crisis of truckers crossing into Chile

  

  Argentine and Chilean authorities have reached a solution to the crisis affecting some 3,000 lorry drivers crossing the Andes through the Cristo Redentor-Libertadores route, it was announced.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  Argentina donates over 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines

  

  Argentina's health authorities have confirmed the country has donated over 4 million Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccines to countries in the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia in a move to reduce inequality.

• Saturday, January 29th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Canadian truckers caravan converging at Ottawa against vaccination mandates

  

  Canadian lorry drivers honked their horns Friday as their caravan converged on the capital city of Ottawa for a major demonstration against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vaccination mandates to cross the Canada-US border.

• Saturday, January 29th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Brazil's Anvisa outlines differences between pediatric COVID-19 vaccines

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Friday released a statement warning of the differences between COVID-19 vaccines for children to highlight the specifics of newly-released drugs.