A health worker prepares a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a health center in Jakarta on Feb 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON / GENEVA – Governments may have to reserve drugs and vaccines for the World Health Organization to distribute in poorer countries to avoid a repeat of the "catastrophic failure" during […]
A health worker prepares a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a health center in Jakarta on Feb 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON / GENEVA – Governments may have to reserve drugs and vaccines for the World Health Organization to distribute in poorer countries to avoid a repeat of the "catastrophic failure" during […]
A volunteer lights candles forming the shape of a red ribbon during an awareness event organized on the eve of the World AIDS Day in Kathmandu on Nov 30, 2021. (PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) LONDON – The number of people in Europe with undiagnosed HIV has risen as testing rates fell during the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
People make their way through Times Square, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Manhattan, New York City, US, May 07, 2021. (EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS) LOS ANGELES / NEW YORK / MOSCOW – Over 14.8 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to […]
Medical workers treat patients in the COVID-19 ward at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare system campus and medical center in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on Jan 11, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP) BEIJING – Claims by some Western leaders that the COVID-19 pandemic "is over" has drawn criticism as the coronavirus continues to […]
A picture taken on May 8, 2021 shows a sign of the World Health Organization at the entrance of their headquarters in Geneva amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) LONDON / MOSCOW – If rich nations think the pandemic is over, they should help lower-income countries reach that point too, a senior World […]
This photo, provided by Office of the Governor of New York, shows Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Boriken Neighborhood Health Center, in New York on Sept 7, 2022. (DON POLLARD / OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK VIA AP) COPENHAGEN / NEW YORK – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects COVID-19 vaccine […]
This file photo dated April 20, 2021 shows an exterior view of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (PETER DEJONG / FILE / AP) FRANKFURT / PARIS / LOS ANGELES – An official at the European Union's drugs regulator said on Tuesday the COVID-19 pandemic was not over, contradicting US President Joe Biden, and […]
A 6 year-old child is comforted by her mother as she receives her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by a medical assistant at the Child Health Associates office in Novi, Michigan on Nov 3, 2021. (JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden said in an interview aired on Sunday that […]
The logo of the World Health Organization (WHO) is pictured on the facade of the WHO headquarters on Oct 24, 2017 in Geneva. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, his most optimistic outlook […]
Photo taken on Jan 22, 2020 shows an exterior view of the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. (LIU QU/XINHUA) FRANKFURT/ LONDON / LISBON -The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, his most optimistic […]
In this April 23, 2020 file photo, a sign is seen by the entrance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. (TAMI CHAPPELL / AFP) LOS ANGELES / ROME / OTTAWA – The chief of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday acknowledged that the agency had failed to respond […]
Masked patrons wait to order at a food stand inside Grand Central Market on July 13, 2022, in Los Angeles. (MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ / AP) WASHINGTON / LIMA – Newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases in the United States remain close to 130,000 daily, the highest level since February, MarketWatch reported on Wednesday. The number of cases is […]
