A World Health Organisation director has warned against restarting international travel as he claims that progress against Covid-19 is still ‘fragile’. Hans Kluge, WHO’s European director, urged people to ‘exercise caution’ and rethink international travel on Thursday, adding that ‘pockets of increasing transmission’ on the continent could quickly spread. The so-called Indian variant, which might be … Read more
Malawi has burned almost 20,000 doses of expired coronavirus vaccines, despite assurances from health organisations that they were still safe to use. The 19,610 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine expired 18 days after arriving in Malawi, but both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) said the jabs were safe until mid-July. … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of people are dying from working long hours, according to a major World Health Organization (WHO) report. The global study, the first of its kind, found 745,000 people died in 2016 from heart disease or strokes as a result of working more than 55 hours per week. The majority – or 60 … Read more
‘People’s Vaccine’ protesters clash with police at AstraZeneca’s HQ in Cambridge after climbing on roof and unfurling banners accusing firm of profiting from pandemic ‘People’s vaccine’ protestors gathering outside AstraZeneca’s Cambridge HQ Demanding firm share Covid vaccine blueprints with World Health Organization Organisers Global Justice Now said the action is also to persuade Oxford University to make … Read more
Dubai’s long-haul carrier Emirates will ship aid from the World Health Organization and other groups into India for free. The move is to help fight a crushing outbreak of the coronavirus in the country, the airline said Sunday. The offer by Emirates, which has some 95 flights weekly to nine cities in India, initially involves … Read more
Coronavirus has killed more than double the number of people officially reported, a study has claimed. Analysts in the US estimate the disease has caused about 6.9million deaths globally – as opposed to the 3.2m declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). They warned that low testing numbers and weak healthcare systems in developing countries … Read more
Coronavirus has killed more than double the number of people officially reported, a study has claimed. Analysts in the US estimate the disease has caused about 6.9million deaths globally – as opposed to the 3.2m declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). They warned that low testing numbers and weak healthcare systems in developing countries … Read more
Sophie Wessex praises Queen for taking a ‘personal interest’ in all her family’s projects and says her mother-in-law ‘loves when people get together and make things happen’ Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, 56, has praised her mother-in-law, the Queen She said monarch ‘loves it when people get together and make things happen’ It comes as … Read more
A new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has revealed that the risk of being exposed to COVID-19 is as great at 60 feet as it is at six feet indoors. The research questions COVID-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, which both suggested early … Read more
The European coronavirus vaccination drive could catch up with Britain ‘in the coming weeks’ despite a slow start plagued by delays. Europe’s vaccine roll-out was condemned as ‘unacceptably slow’ by the World Health Organisation earlier this month, with leaders blaming delays for ‘prolonging the pandemic’. The roll-out is now finally taking off as the EU … Read more