カテゴリー: Infectious diseases
Residents in Lanzhou, Gansu, told to stay at home as buses, taxis and key rail routes suspendedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has placed a city of 4 million under lockdown in an attempt to stamp out a domestic coronav…
Follows attacks on Covid nurses in the country where less than 1% of the population is fully vaccinated Papua New Guinea authorities have approved a mass burial to take pressure off Port Moresby’s hospital morgue where bodies are stacked on top of each…
Protests over restrictions even as over 4,500 new cases recorded in Bulgaria; India has administered 1bn doses of the Covid vaccine in the country of 1.4bnMoscow announces one-week lockdown amid high Covid deathsOnly 14% of promised Covid doses reach p…
Death of 18 people forces more social restrictions even as city-state expands quarantine-free travel to eight countriesSingapore’s healthcare system is at risk of being “overwhelmed” by surging coronavirus infections, government officials warned on Wed…
Polish health minister says explosion in cases needs to be urgently addressed; Singapore records 18 deaths and 3,862 new casesLatvia first country to reimpose lockdown in Europe’s new waveUS children aged 5-11 will soon be able to get Covid jabs, says …
A group of 26 experts will also be tasked with examining new pathogens and how to prevent future pandemicsSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization has unveiled a team of scientists it wants to revive the stalled inquiry into Covid-…
India, Egypt and Cuba among first states to develop and make their own vaccines as Covax falls behind Developing countries are increasingly turning to homegrown Covid vaccinations as the UN-backed Covax programme falls behind.While western countries ro…
Party say Maori would be ‘sacrificial lambs’ if Covid restrictions are lifted before vaccination rates riseNew Zealand’s government would be committing “modern genocide” by reopening the country as Covid spreads among under-vaccinated indigenous people…
Details are deficient, scientific analysis contentious and expert voices missing in Markson’s thesis about ‘what really happened’ in China, which establishes a crime scene around the Wuhan Institute of Virology With 4.55 million deaths from the Covid-1…
By granting freedom as cases numbers rise, Jacinda Ardern has diverged from the nation’s understood strategy of aligning policy with expert consensusThe New Zealand government called time on its world-leading Covid-19 elimination strategy on Monday, an…
Head of the Waikato Mongrel Mob chapter Sonny Fatupaito was asked to encourage gang members and their families to get testedSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has endorsed granting a Mongrel Mob leader special e…
After positive clinical trials for antiviral drug Molnupiravir, it joins other medicines that have shown promiseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first clinical trial results showing a positive effect for a pill that can b…
Naomi Kori Pomat, the first female doctor in her province, died in country’s first government-confirmed death of a health worker from virusTributes have poured in for a doctor in Papua New Guinea’s Western Province who died last week, in the country’s …
A recent visitor to South Korea compares the country’s approach to Covid management with that of the UK We are just back from six weeks in Seoul, South Korea, and suffered a real culture shock on our return. In South Korea, there is not a soul without…
Expert’s clever analogies and frank messages to public have won him respect – and millions of followersEarly last year, as Covid-19 began to disrupt livelihoods in Shanghai, local media struggled to persuade the public to stay at home. Then they turned…