(Reuters) – AstraZeneca said on Monday an independent panel found no higher risks of blood clots from its COVID-19 vaccine in a large U.S. trial, including rare ones in the brain. The shot was 79% effective overall, and 80% effective in the elderly.FILE PHOTO: Vials of the AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are seen, as […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Thursday that there were lumps and bumps in the global vaccine supply chain that were causing slower deliveries than expected and scolded the European Union for threatening to slap a ban on vaccine exports.FILE PHOTO: Abida Bi receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from nurse Zenub Mahood, at Bradford […]
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Rapidly increasing COVID-19 infections in hospitals in the Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea were hitting its fragile health system “like a tornado”, with services shutting as staff fall ill, health workers said on Wednesday.FILE PHOTO: A woman washes clothes on a wooden path between stilt houses at Hanuabada Village, located […]
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry said on Tuesday there had been an outbreak of African swine fever – the disease that ravaged the country’s pig herd from mid-2018 – in the southwestern province of Sichuan. The outbreak was found in a truck carrying 10 pigs, two of them dead, the Ministry of Agriculture […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than 200,000 Russians diagnosed with COVID-19 have died since the pandemic began last April, Russia’s Rosstat statistics agency said on Friday, more than double the widely cited figure used by the government’s coronavirus task force.FILE PHOTO: A medical specialist works at the Krylatskoye Ice Palace, which was converted into a temporary […]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Despite a high-profile visit to China by a team of international experts in January, the world is no closer to knowing the origins of COVID-19, according to one of the authors of an open letter calling for a new investigation into the pandemic.FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured on the headquarters of […]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Staff at Singapore’s banks engaged in key operations are being offered COVID-19 vaccinations, making it one of the first global centres to inoculate its financial services industry.FILE PHOTO: A woman walks into a newly set up coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination center which will be opened to the public the day after, in […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – An outbreak of African swine fever has been confirmed in piglets being illegally transported through Funing county in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan, the farm ministry said. The case comes amid growing concern that a severe wave of disease in recent months has hit China’s hog herd, the world’s largest. Six of […]
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan began its first COVID-19 vaccinations on Tuesday, administering doses initially to security force members, health workers and journalists, in a campaign that may face challenges from a sharp rise in violence.Slideshow ( 3 images )The war-damaged country received 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII), which […]
FILE PHOTO: Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) attends a news conference on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland May 3, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File PhotoGENEVA (Reuters) – An outbreak of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea poses a regional […]
