TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada will drop its COVID-19 measures October 1 for those entering the country, including requirements for proof of vaccinations, tests and masks, the government has announced. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said the border measures were ended because travelers “no longer influence in a significant wayR...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has announced that it will resume issuing tourist visas, ending the restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision is part of the government’s measures to revive the tourism industry, which has suffered significant losses due to the coronavirus crisis, said Md. Mahbub Ali, the state minister...
Al-Kasrah, Syria – (AFP): In a hospital in Syria crowded with women and wailing children, Ahmad al-Mohammad writhes in pain beside his wife after they contracted cholera, which is resurging for the first time in years. During his six days in treatment, Mohammad has watched patients stream into the Al-Kasrah hospital in the eastern provin...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Nine-month-old Nayma is being given a high dose of drugs under the careful watch of physicians at a health center in Bangladesh capital Dhaka. She has been diagnosed with a deadly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. Nayma has been provided treatment for the last three months for MultiDrug Resistant Tuberculosis,...
Maizbhandar, Bangladesh (AFP): Many families in Bangladesh come to seek blessings from an elderly Bangladeshi mystic, considering themselves affected by “evil spirits” and “black magic.” Syed Emdadul Hoque conducts exorcisms but at the same time is helping to shatter taboos around mental health treatment in the South As...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – At least 73 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody due to medical negligence since 1967, a local NGO said on Saturday. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the latest victim was Palestinian female Sa’diya Farajallah, who died in Israeli custody in June. “Israel is still holding the bodies of...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – At least 730 children have died in nutrition centers across Somalia this year, the UN Children’s Fund said on Tuesday, warning of a famine in the coming months. “Malnutrition has reached crisis levels – 1.5 million children, nearly half of the under-five population, are likely to have acute malnutrition,’’...
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Doctors in the occupied West Bank are struggling to save Palestinians from permanent disability after having been being shot in an upsurge of violence resulting from incessant Israeli raids targeting Palestinians. At Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus in the northern West Bank, a teenager with bandaged l...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Some 22,500 children died from air pollution in Nigeria’s most populous southwestern state of Lagos in 2021, according to environmental authorities. The figures were revealed by Dolapo Fasawe, head of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), on the sidelines of the opening ceremony for the ...
KHAIRPUR, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands of Pakistanis displaced by unprecedented floods are now facing an even worse ordeal: the outbreak of waterborne and other diseases. The Sindh Health Department confirmed in a statement that over 170,000 people, including 52,000 suffering from diarrhea, have been recorded from flood-affected areas of the prov...
