Tag: COVID-19

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

  No booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Denmark

  

  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 - 09:53 UTC

  Brazilian Senators bring case against Bolsonaro before ICC

  

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) based in the Dutch city of The Hague, has received a complaint from Brazil's Senate against President Jair Bolsonaro for negligence, incompetence, and anti-scientific denialism in handling the COVID-19 crisis.

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

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

  

  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 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

  

  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.

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

  Saskatchewan to lift all Covid-19 restrictions following protests

  

  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

  

  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 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.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Brazil reports first two cases of Omicron subvariant

  

  Brazil's Fiocruz Institute Monday announced the first two cases of the BA.2 sublineage of the SARS-Cov-2 Omicron variant had been detected in the country: one in the State of Rio de Janeiro and the other in the State of Santa Catarina.

• Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  COVID-19 not the only infectious threat in Argentina

  

  Argentine vacationers can catch diseases other than COVID-19, which can even bring on worse symptoms, it was reported after the Health Ministry announced it had detected cyanobacteria in AMBA (City of Buenos Aires and territories around it) and in the provinces of Entre Ríos, Córdoba and Santa Fe