COVID-19

India hits another grim record as it scrambles oxygen supply  Associated Press India accounts for 46% of world’s new COVID-19 cases, quarter of deaths  Yahoo! Voices India accounted for 1 in 4 coronavirus deaths worldwide last week…

World Health Organization chief welcomes US announcement that it will support waivers for coronavirus vaccines.

Hospitalizations and deaths of younger people soar due to COVID-19, PAHO Director reports mitchelc 5 May 2021

WHO calls for better hand hygiene and other infection control practices mitchelc 5 May 2021

EYEMOUTH, Scotland (AP) — James Cook was an enthusiastic supporter of Scottish independence, but now he’s not so sure.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Authorities extended a lockdown in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu and surrounding districts by another week on Wednesday as the Himalayan nation recorded its highest daily tolls of COVID-19 infection and death.

Ex-health minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta says he told President Jair Bolsonaro to listen to the science to fight virus.

Judges reverse President Alberto Fernandez’s decree to close schools in Buenos Aires amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.

When the coronavirus pandemic struck New York City, LaGuardia Community College professor Lucia Fuentes assigned students in her honors biology class to compile all the information they could find about COVID-19.

Many Yemenis seem reluctant to get the jab on religious grounds, distrust or because of the dangers of war.