Vaccines and immunisation
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus, Health, Infectious diseases, Older people, Protest, Science, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
China sends students home amid calls for crackdown on protests
Authorities flood streets with police as top security body urges action against ‘hostile forces’China has sent…
- Coronavirus, Global development, Health, India, Infectious diseases, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
First Covid, now monkeypox – India’s role is key in the scramble for jabs
As the west buys early doses, India’s vaccine preparedness matters not just at home but for other developing n…
- Global development, Health, Pakistan, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
Polio outbreak in Pakistan worsens as eighth child reported paralysed
Investigation launched as first cases in a year blamed on vaccine refusal fuelled by clerics and falsification…
- Global development, Health, Nursing, Pakistan, Polio, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
‘It’s scary work, but I’m determined. We will make Pakistan polio-free’
As the virus returns, one frontline worker tells of her daily trials and triumphs in the fight to eradicate it…
- Global development, Health, Pakistan, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
Spectre of polio returns to haunt Pakistan as baby boy is left paralysed
First case in a year sparks fears of new outbreak despite success of national programme to wipe out the diseas…
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus, Older people, Omicron variant, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
With 37 million in lockdown and Covid plans under fire, Chinese ask: what comes next?
Elderly residents are wary of the jab even as Omicron spreads, and critics say zero-Covid policy is not sustai…
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Anti-Covid vaccine mandate protesters chase New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern outside school
Incident comes a month after prime minister’s vehicle was chased and forced on to a curb by demonstratorsA gro…
- Asia Pacific, Coronavirus, Health, Infectious diseases, New Zealand, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
New Zealand border will open in stages from end of February, Jacinda Ardern announces
Fully vaccinated New Zealanders and other eligible travellers from Australia will be the first people able to …
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Omicron: what do we know about ‘stealth’ subvariant BA.2?
Omicron’s ‘close cousin’ has mutations that could alter how it behaves and has begun to surpass Covid’s most c…
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Jacinda Ardern cancels wedding as New Zealand prepares for Omicron surge
Prime minister says variant is now circulating in the community but ‘we’ll do everything that we can to slow t…
- Australia news, China, Coronavirus, Europe, France, Omicron variant, Scotland, South Africa, UK news, Vaccines and immunisation, World Health Organization, World news
Covid live: over 90% of community cases in England now Omicron; France reports over 200,000 cases in 24 hours in new record
UK Health Security Agency says most cases in the community now new variant; France records over 208,000 new ca…
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus, Europe, New York, Travel, UK news, US news, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
1.7 million people in UK had coronavirus last week; thousands of Christmas flights cancelled – as it happened
ONS figures are highest on record so far; Christmas for many in disarray as US and Australian airlines say fli…
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Covid live: Germany lacks millions of vaccine doses; Denmark breaks case record for fourth day running
German health minister trying to buy back vaccines as country tries to step up booster drive; Denmark facing m…
- China, Coronavirus, England, NHS, South Korea, UK news, US news, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
Coronavirus live: Omicron poses real threat, says Moderna chief; Pfizer says Covid pill near 90% effective
Moderna chief cautions against assumptions Omicron is milder than Delta; Pfizer says pill cut hospitalisation …
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‘More cautious’ China shifts Africa approach from debt to vaccine diplomacy
Analysis: After two decades of major financial aid, Beijing is rethinking its strategy on continent amid Covid…