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After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and AfghanistanThe world is “tantalisingly close” to eradicating polio – with no confirmed cases of wild polio anywhere so far this year. …
Read MoreIt has taken 18 years for India to produce its own affordable version to tackle the country’s second-biggest cause of cancer deaths among womenIt is a Wednesday morning and Sneha Neurgaonkar sits on a gurney in a private hospital in Pune, India. The 14…
Read MorePaediatrician and geneticist determined to save the lives of children in countries where malaria is endemicMalaria kills more than half a million people every year, mostly children under the age of five in Africa. Saving the lives of those children was…
Read MoreDeath toll only of those who died in hospital and true figure likely to be higher, although officials say peak has passed in most areasAlmost 60,000 people have died of Covid in Chinese hospitals since early December when the country relaxed its strict…
Read MoreTravel packages also advertised in Macau as interest grows in mRNA vaccines unavailable on mainlandPrivate services offering Chinese travellers access to mRNA vaccines are attracting droves of mainlanders to Hong Kong and Macau seeking a booster shot t…
Read MoreSpain joins Italy in requiring arrivals to show a negative result as Chinese state media calls move ‘discriminatory’European countries are preparing to scale up the monitoring of potential new coronavirus variants from China, as Spain becomes the secon…
Read MoreNew Zealand parents say they will focus on supporting their son, now in the guardianship of his doctors, through life-saving operationThe family of a baby who has been placed in his doctors’ care because his parents refused to consent to a transfusion …
Read MoreBacking down from existing policies remains a political problem of the first orderChina’s government looks to be starting to roll back its zero-Covid policy. But after three years of saying the resource-intensive, economically damaging elimination stra…
Read MoreNew Zealand’s health services go to court over guardianship of four-month-old boy whose parents have not let heart operation go aheadNew Zealand’s health service has made a court application over the guardianship of a four-month-old baby whose parents …
Read MoreAuthorities flood streets with police as top security body urges action against ‘hostile forces’China has sent university students home and flooded streets with police in an attempt to disperse the most widespread anti-government protests in decades, a…
Read MoreAs the west buys early doses, India’s vaccine preparedness matters not just at home but for other developing nations dependent on its shotsRishabh Kumar woke up in his California bedroom in a cold sweat. In the space of three weeks, the 37-year-old fin…
Read MoreInvestigation launched as first cases in a year blamed on vaccine refusal fuelled by clerics and falsification of records by parents Pakistan’s polio eradication campaign is in disarray after an alarming jump in cases last week. Eight polio cases have …
Read MoreAs the virus returns, one frontline worker tells of her daily trials and triumphs in the fight to eradicate it for everSaima Hanif, 32, is one of Pakistan’s frontline health workers, part of a network of volunteers and low-paid women who are key in th…
Read MoreFirst case in a year sparks fears of new outbreak despite success of national programme to wipe out the diseasePakistan has confirmed its first case of polio after more than a year, damaging the country’s hopes of eradicating the virus. Health officia…
Read MoreElderly residents are wary of the jab even as Omicron spreads, and critics say zero-Covid policy is not sustainableWhen nearby neighbourhoods went into lockdown, Liu Li started stocking up. The 42-year-old Chinese magazine worker bought vegetables, fru…
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