カテゴリー: Vaccines and immunisation
New 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 …
Authorities 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…
As 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…
Investigation 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 …
As 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…
First 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…
Elderly 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…
Incident comes a month after prime minister’s vehicle was chased and forced on to a curb by demonstratorsA group of shouting protesters have chased the New Zealand prime minister’s van down a driveway as she visited a Christchurch primary school, amid …
Fully vaccinated New Zealanders and other eligible travellers from Australia will be the first people able to enter the countryCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has announced it will reopen its border to visitors i…
Omicron’s ‘close cousin’ has mutations that could alter how it behaves and has begun to surpass Covid’s most common variety in parts of Europe and AsiaSee all our coronavirus coverageThe highly transmissible Omicron variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus – th…
Prime minister says variant is now circulating in the community but ‘we’ll do everything that we can to slow the spread’Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingOmicron has breached New Zealand’s borders and started spreading in the communi…
UK Health Security Agency says most cases in the community now new variant; France records over 208,000 new cases, health minister confirmsUS sets record for new daily Covid cases amid Omicron surgeScotland reports record number of cases as Omicron tak…
ONS figures are highest on record so far; Christmas for many in disarray as US and Australian airlines say flight crews hit by CovidUK hits new Covid record again with more than 120,000 daily casesChristmas Eve travel chaos as airlines cancel more than…
German health minister trying to buy back vaccines as country tries to step up booster drive; Denmark facing more restrictions amid surge in infectionsGermany looks to buy up spare Covid vaccines amid huge shortfallFrance to tighten Covid restrictions …
Moderna chief cautions against assumptions Omicron is milder than Delta; Pfizer says pill cut hospitalisation and deaths in high-risk patientsAustralia prepares to open up as NSW eases Covid restrictionsUS air force discharges 27 service members for re…