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Boris Johnson to call for more powers for health body in coronavirus fight as Trump pulls outCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson will announce a 30% increase in the UK’s funding of the World Health Organization, ma…
Lockdowns brought temporary relief to some but, everywhere, test and trace is key Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first wave of coronavirus swept through a world unprepared. Authorities struggled to test for the disease,…
Coronavirus deaths pass 925,000; biosafety head at Chinese CDC says vaccine progress ‘very smooth’; South Korea to secure early vaccines for 30 million Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs global coronavirus cases neared 30 mi…
Health workers and older people among those bearing brunt of added pressure brought by coronavirusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders are experiencing more depression and anxiety since the coronavirus lockdown, do…
We are tantalisingly close to eradicating the disease. Things may slip backwards because of science, thugs and exponents of ignorancePolio arrives, if it announces itself at all, as a high temperature. Or a sore throat. Maybe a headache, or an upset st…
Italy closes all discos; Spain takes new measures as infections soar; New Zealand adds 13 infections to total‘Go hard, go early’ – New Zealand goes back to the drawing boardDog gone: Australia’s rescue pet shelters emptied by surge in demand during pan…
Fight to eradicate disease getting ‘back on track’ after surge in cases due to pause in vaccination campaignsPolio vaccination campaigns have resumed in Afghanistan and Pakistan – the last two polio-endemic countries in the world – after a “surge” in c…
At least two Australian companies have imported stocks of masks from manufacturer involved in labour program criticised as ‘highly coercive’Face masks manufactured at a Chinese factory using allegedly coerced Uighur labour are being sold in Australia, …
Infections are accelerating in largely untouched countries and those which hoped they had come through the worst. But there is hope“Most of the world sort of sat by and watched with almost a sense of detachment and bemusement,” said Helen Clark, appoin…
In the shadow of the epidemic that claimed the lives of 83 children, families live with constant reminders of loss. Words by Jacqui Thornton. Photographs by Tom Maguire Early on the morning of 6 July 2018, two mothers living in neighbouring villages on…
Fears over Covid-19 have seen pregnant women turned away from hospitals, leading to the death of at least one baby, as national army barracks go into lockdownA leading Papua New Guinean obstetrician has advised women in that country not to fall pregnan…
G4 strain has already infected 10% of industry’s workers in China but no evidence yet that it can be passed from human to human Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study …
Germany, South Korea, Italy and China had stamped out the disease but localised infections now reportedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA meat-processing plant in Germany. A church in Seoul. A squat and a hospital in Italy. A…
Nearly one-third of Fijians have diabetes, and the disease is often not caught until amputation, or even death, are imminentAt the height of his 15-year career as a surgeon in the Pacific nation of Fiji, Dr Jone Hawea was performing eight to 10 diabete…
Patients are looking for cure as healthcare system is on brink of collapse, say doctors Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs coronavirus chaos has enveloped Pakistan, with hospitals overflowing, doctors dying and infections es…