The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said its urgent support helped to avert COVID-19 vaccines expiry in Africa. The Africa CDC, in a statement issued Thursday, said following the emergence of [Read More]
Germany no longer requires that people arriving in the country from China take a COVID-19 test, the government said on Wednesday. After the European Union (EU) agreed to end the requirement by late February, countries [Read More]
Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Lund University I was standing in a forest at night, by a dark lake taking part in a Mother Earth ritual. Shaman drums echoed between the cliffs. The witch leading the ritual suddenly [Read More]
The number of people who died from COVID-19 in the Philippines has reached 66,030, according to the Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) data. The DOH reported the first case of COVID-19 in the Philippines on [Read More]
The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for over 80 percent of new COVID-19 cases reported in the United States, according to the latest estimates of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Read More]
New research suggests that vaccination against COVID-19 is associated with fewer heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular issues among people who were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The study, published Monday in [Read More]
Australians who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 are five times more likely to die after contracting the virus than those who are fully inoculated, a report has found. The South Australian Health and Medical Research [Read More]
The China-aided Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) headquarters serves as an important platform for African countries to contain pandemic in a well-coordinated manner, a senior African Union (AU) Commission official has [Read More]
Sweden has discarded nearly 8.5 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19, local media reported on Sunday. The discarded doses equal to about 20 percent of vaccine doses Sweden has procured, according to Swedish Public Health [Read More]
Myanmar extended its COVID-19 preventive measures until Feb. 28, the state-run media citing the Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment of COVID-19 reported on Wednesday. The extension applies to all COVID-19 restrictions that expire [Read More]
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