カテゴリー: Vaccines and immunisation
Beijing joins initiative against ‘vaccine nationalism’ in contrast to US, which is not part of alliance Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has officially joined a global vaccine initiative for distributing 2bn doses of Co…
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…
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…
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…
AstraZeneca says it has not discussed ‘emergency use authorisation’ with the US Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe company manufacturing the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine has denied it is in talks with the Trump adm…
Moscow to begin vaccine trials; Trump backs plasma treatment; survey finds 30% of Delhi has antibodiesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization is in discussions with Russia to obtain more information abo…
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…
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…
Officials voice concern as coronavirus halts annual programme in country already struggling against resurgence in casesIn April, almost 40 million children missed their polio drops in Pakistan after the cancellation of the nationwide vaccination campai…
Beijing dismisses as slander US claims that any organisation researching vaccines should assume they are a targetCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOrganisations conducting research into Covid-19 may be targeted by computer hac…
China’s restrictions have brought the first wave to an end but the danger of a second is very realCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCountries wanting to end the lockdown and allow people to move about and work again will have …
Six-week state of emergency is lifted after disease killed 81 people and sickened more than 5,600 othersSamoa has lifted a six-week state of emergency after the infection rate from a measles outbreak that has swept the country started to come under con…
The unprecedented health crisis has claimed 76 lives, mostly children. Now questions are being asked about how it came to this“Every time I visit my baby, I see a morgue full of dead babies,” says a mother sitting at Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hosp…
Nation lifts two-day curfew amid rise in mandatory vaccinations and arrest of ‘anti-vaxxer’Samoa has said nearly 90% of eligible people have been vaccinated against measles as it lifted a two-day curfew imposed amid an outbreak that has killed 65 in re…
Workers told to stay home during two-day drive to control virus that has killed 62 peopleSamoa’s main streets were eerily quiet on Thursday as the government stepped up efforts to curb a measles epidemic that has killed 62 people.The government told mo…