NEW YORK (AA) – The US is considering new coronavirus precautions for travelers from China because of a surge in cases there, according to media reports. Bloomberg News cited US officials who raised concerns about the transparency of data coming from China about new cases. American officials said that they were considering new travel pre...
SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir (AA) – Inshah Bashir in Indian-occupied Kashmir repeats: “Where ever there is hope, there is life” to get inspiration to fight the challenges life has thrown at her despite her physical disability. Bashir, 28, is the captain of the Jammu and Kashmir women’s wheelchair basketball team. She recently got a national [...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The number of children facing dire drought conditions across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more than doubled in five months, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). In a statement, UNICEF said that around 20.2 million children are now under threat of severe hunger, thirst and disease compared to 10 milli...
Banjul, Gambia (AFP): A Gambian parliamentary committee has recommended that an Indian pharmaceutical company be banned and prosecuted over the deaths of at least 70 children from acute kidney failure. “The government should pursue legal action against Maiden Pharmaceuticals for exporting contaminated drugs to The Gambia,” the sele...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): A Malian mother who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco last year has returned home with her infants, Health Minister Dieminatou Sangare shared. “Joy and satisfaction to see them in good health. The mother and babies are doing well and have arrived safe and sound in Mali,” she said in a […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A new study has found a World Health Organization (WHO) authorized oral vaccine for the type 2 poliovirus to be safe which develops 99% protective neutralizing antibodies in previously unvaccinated newborns. Scientists at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), an internati...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Fifteen children have died from the deadly measles disease in war-torn Yemen this year, according to the UN children’s agency. In a statement, UNICEF said around 1,400 children in seven Yemeni provinces, including the southern Aden province, “were suspected of having measles” in the period between January and Ju...
GENEVA (AA) – World Health Organization (WHO) member states have agreed to start developing the first draft of a legally-binding agreement designed to protect the world from future pandemics. “Countries have delivered a clear message that the world must be better prepared, coordinated, and supported to protect all people, everywhere, fro...
Washington, United States — (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that China’s “repressive” crackdown on protests over Covid lockdowns showed “weakness” by the communist leadership. Blinken, in an interview with NBC News, said that people in all countries have a right to “make known thei...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Widespread inequalities are fueling the spread of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, a top UN official has warned. “An inequality that really breaks my heart is the inequality against children living with HIV,” UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said at the launch of a new report in Tanzania. “With the science w...
