RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed an executive order to disburse 5.3 billion reais ($918.08 million) in new loans to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country hit a record tally of 3,780 deaths in the past day.FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker fills a syringe with a dose of Bharat […]
For years, Illinois Democratic Rep. Lauren Underwood has had a close eye on maternal health, rooted in the experience of grieving a close friend who died three weeks after giving birth to a baby girl. Since the former nurse arrived in Congress, addressing maternal health disparities has been one of her cornerstone issues. Underwood flipped […]
(Reuters) – COVID-19 was the primary or contributing cause of 377,883 deaths in the United States last year, with a particularly high toll among the elderly, according to a government report released on Wednesday.Slideshow ( 2 images )The COVID-19 mortality rate made it the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020 […]
FILE PHOTO: Students attend a geography class at a school in an open-air classroom organised on a playground amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Lviv, Ukraine September 9, 2020. REUTERS/Roman BalukKYIV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian capital Kyiv, which has the highest COVID-19 infection rate in the country, will close all schools and kindergartens and […]
LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – The rapid rise in different parts of the world of deadly, more infectious coronavirus variants that share new mutations is leading scientists to ask a critical question – has the SARS-CoV-2 virus shown its best cards?FILE PHOTO: National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins holds a model of SARS-CoV-2, the novel […]
FILE PHOTO: A nurse holds a tray of syringes with AstraZeneca vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Huelva, Spain March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo/File PhotoMADRID (Reuters) – Spain has decided to remove an upper age limit of 65 years on AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and give Johnson & Johnson’s version of the jab to […]
SEOUL/MANILA (Reuters) – Several Asian countries scrambled to find alternative sources for COVID-19 inoculations on Tuesday after export restrictions by manufacturer India left a World Health Organization-backed global vaccine sharing programme short of supplies.FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares to administer the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Eka […]
(Reuters) – More young adults in the United States reported feeling anxious or depressed during the past six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and fewer people reported getting the help they needed, according to a U.S. government study released on Friday. The percentage of adults under age 30 with recent symptoms of an anxiety or […]
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FILE PHOTO: French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire speaks during a press conference to present the details of new restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), announced the day before by the president, in Paris, France, October 15, 2020. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERSPARIS (Reuters) -Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire […]
