GENEVA (AA) – Over the last week, COVID-19 cases have risen in four of the six World Health Organization regions, the WHO chief said Tuesday, airing concern about the increasing difficulty in learning how the virus is mutating, along with the need for more information from North Korea. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said that du...
ANKARA (AA) – The more than two-year COVID-19 pandemic in the US has so far claimed one million lives, said President Joe Biden on Thursday. The country “marks a tragic milestone and each was an irreplaceable loss,” Biden said in a statement. Each life lost left behind “a family, a community, and a nation forever […]
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir – Sana Irshad Mattoo, 28, a Kashmiri woman photographer, has been awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for her coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides Mattoo, who contributes to Reuters as a multimedia journalist, three Reuters photojournalists- Adnan Abidi, Amit Dave and late Danish Si...
Three in five reported COVID-19 deaths in the United States since June 2021 could have been prevented by vaccination, according to new analysis. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimated about 234,000 lives could have been saved with timely vaccination. Vaccine-preventable deaths represent 60% of all U.S. adult coronavirus fatalities since last ...
On Monday, a U.S. federal judge struck down the COVID-19 mask mandate for public transportation imposed by the Biden administration. Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida said the mask mandate exceeds the statutory authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mandate requiring masks on airplanes, s...
On Monday, the White House announced it will convene a second global COVID-19 summit next month. A leading public health advocate urged U.S. President Joe Biden to “fight like hell” for congressional funding to combat the ongoing pandemic. The U.S., Belize, Germany, Indonesia and Senegal collectively are hosting the summit. They said the May 1...
The U.S. State Department on Monday ordered non-emergency U.S. government workers and their family members to leave Shanghai. The order comes in response to rising COVID-19 cases and restrictions related to the Chinese government’s response. China and Hong Kong have a zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19, which severely impacts travel and acces...
China’s largest city Shanghai, home to 28 million people and a major manufacturing hub, is in its third day of lockdown due to the latest COVID variant. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a second booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines for older people. On Tuesday, the agency said the [&hel...
For the first time, a new study focuses on the effects of mild COVID on the brain. The findings are based on information collected from 785 volunteers in the UK who were assessed before the pandemic, then three years later. Half of them had gotten mild COVID, and the other half had not caught the […]
A new study suggests the COVID-19 pandemic may have claimed over 18 million lives worldwide by the end of 2021, more than three times the official death toll. The higher global casualty estimate is believed to be more realistic, according to analysis by a consortium of health researchers published in the medical journal The Lancet. […]
