A recent study in the British Medical Journal reveals that COVID-19 vaccines significantly decrease the likelihood of heart failure and blood clots following an infection with the virus. Previous research had highlighted the elevated risk of cardiac and thromboembolic complications post-infection. However, this latest study shows a significa...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A resolution adopted at the meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) on Tuesday encouraged the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to devise strategies to strengthen their economic resilience to future shocks” like that of COVID-19 pandemic. Fuat Oktay, Türkiye...
Shanghai, China (AFP): China’s major cities of Beijing and Shanghai have been flooded with security in the wake of nationwide rallies calling for political freedoms and an end to Covid lockdowns. The government faced protests not seen in decades as anger over unrelenting lockdowns has brought out deep-rooted frustration with its politica...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden is “monitoring” ongoing civil unrest in China sparked by the country’s restrictive COVID-19 lockdowns, the White House said on Monday. Biden is “staying up on what’s going on. He’s monitoring this. We all are,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirb...
Authorities in East Turkestan have collected the bodies of Uyghur residents in the northeastern city of Ghulja who died during a strict coronavirus lockdown. The Chinese government refers to the region as Xinjiang. However, they did not inform the families of the deceased about whether their loved ones’ remains were handled according to...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran said Monday that it is “too early” to reopen its embassy in Saudi Arabia amid Iraqi mediation between the two regional arch-rivals. “It is too early to talk about the reopening of embassies by Tehran and Riyadh,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a news briefing in Tehran. The spokesman was […]...
On Thursday, a group of 26 House Democrats urged President Joe Biden to review U.S. policy toward Cuba, to ensure sanctions don’t impede its global vaccination campaign. They cited the “enormous potential” of Cuban COVID-19 vaccines to tackle enduring global inequities. Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Steve Cohen said in the letter “Cuba’s goal of ...
GENEVA – There is a “real” risk of monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic countries, the World Health Organization has warned, while also reiterating that the COVID-19 pandemic “is not over.” “More than 1,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox have now been reported to WHO from 29 countries that are not endemic for the disease,” said WHO [&he...
Pfizer’s new anti-COVID pill Paxlovid is helping stave off hospitalizations and deaths, a senior White House official said Wednesday. Demand for the treatment has soared amid the latest wave of infections in the U.S. There’s been a four-fold increase in demand over the past month and an estimated 20,000 prescriptions being written daily...
COVID-19 cases have risen in four of the six World Health Organization regions in the last week, the WHO chief said Tuesday. Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said drops in testing and sequencing in many countries make it “increasingly difficult” to track the virus and how it’s mutating. He said North Korea announced its first outbreak of [&...
