ISLAMABAD – The United States mobilized an airlift of critical health supplies that arrived in Pakistan Saturday to help the country combat the coronavirus outbreak. The donation includes tens of thousands of “critically needed and requested” personal …
Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on Friday approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds. The decision follows similar approvals by U.S. and European Union regulators. British Health Secretary Matt …
“The threat of a third wave” of COVID-19 in Africa is “real and rising,” Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization regional director for Africa, told a virtual news conference Thursday. “While many countries outside Africa have now vaccinate…
Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found. And the authors said declining oxygen could lead to increased fish kills, algal blooms and methane emissions. Researchers exa…
South African variant? B.1.351? How about GH/501Y.V2? Just call it beta. The World Health Organization is assigning Greek letters to important variants of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The scientific names are hard to say and hard to remembe…
JBS Foods, the world’s largest meat supplier, has been forced to shut down operations in Australia and North America Monday, as the company has been a target of a cyberattack over the weekend, according to officials at its headquarters in Brazil. Autho…
Member nations of the World Health Organization have approved a plan to negotiate the terms of an international pandemic response treaty.Attendees at the closing session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva voted Monday on resolution to create a spec…
American corporations are offering a growing cornucopia of special?deals?and promotions to encourage?people?in the U.S. to get vaccinated against COVID-19.Vaccine activism among some of the nation’s best-known brands comes as daily totals for jabs in t…
To fight a rise in cases caused by the coronavirus variants, France and England moved Monday to increase vaccinations.France is now allowing all adults to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, were vaccinated …