Singapore has approved Covid Breath Test with one-minute result.

A breath test designed to detect Covid-19 and give accurate results within one minute has been approved for use in Singapore, the National University of Singapore said in a statement. The test, developed by NUS spin-off startup Breathonix, works much like a standard breathal…

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UK launches plans for "global pandemic radar" to detect Covid-19.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Friday 21 May 2021 that the United Kingdom will work with the World Health Organization, other partners and nations to develop an advanced international pathogen surveillance network to identify COVID-19 variants and emerging dis…

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IMF urges $50 billion spending commitment to help end the current global pandemic.

The International Monetary Fund wants $50 billion to be spent on ensuring a faster rollout of coronavirus vaccines, saying it could ultimately generate returns of $9 trillion for the global economy. The IMF called for at least 40% of the global population to be vaccinated by…

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WHO classified Indian coronavirus variant as a “global variant of concern”

The World Health Organization has classified a coronavirus variant found in India as a global “variant of concern”. This variant has been named B.1.617. According to World Health Organization, this variant is already spread to more than 30 countries. It is more transmissibl…

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2021 World Food Prize Laureate.

Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, who is best known in the aquaculture sector for her groundbreaking research into the nutritional value of small native fish species in Bangladesh and Cambodia, has been named the 2021 World Food Prize Laureate. Thilsted, who is global lead for nutrit…

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WHO, Germany launch new global hub for pandemic and epidemic intelligence.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Federal Republic of Germany will establish a new global hub for pandemic and epidemic intelligence, data, surveillance and analytics innovation. The Hub, based in Berlin and working with partners around the world, will lead innova…

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Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak.

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday (03) declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that infected 12 people in the eastern province of North Kivu and killed six of them. The outbreak was contained using Merck's (MRK.N) Ebola vaccine, which was given to more than 1,600 …

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WHO unveils global immunization strategy.

A UN-led global immunization strategy was unveiled to reach more than 50 million children who have missed lifesaving jabs against measles and other diseases because of current global pandemic disruption. The new global strategy has the potential to save 50 million lives with…

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World Immunization Week 2021: 24 - 30 April.

World Immunization Week – celebrated every year in the last week of April – aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization saves millions of lives every year and is widely recognized as one of the world’s most successful heal…

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New Zealand bans entry of travellers from India.

New Zealand has temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, for about two weeks following a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from the South Asian country. The move comes after New Zealand recorded 23 new positive c…

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French President Macron Orders Third Lockdown.

President Emmanuel Macron ordered France into its third national lockdown Wednesday 31 March 2021 in an effort to slow a third wave of current global pandemmic infecting his country. Among the lockdown measures, Macron closed all schools for three weeks beginning next Monday…

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El Salvador certified as malaria-free by WHO.

El Salvador is first Central American country to achieve this status, third in all of the Americas in recent years. El Salvador today became the first country in Central America to be awarded a certification of malaria elimination by the World Health Organization (WHO). The …

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Biden eyes 04 July as ‘Independence Day’ from virus.

President Joe Biden has said he is hopeful that America can "mark independence" from global pandemic  on 4 July if people get vaccinated. In his first primetime address as president, Mr Biden said he would order states to make all adults eligible for vaccinations by…

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The world's most expensive drug: Zolgensma.

Zolgensma which has a reported list price of £1.79 million per dose is labelled the most expensive drug in the world. Zolgensma was approved by the National Health Service (NHS) England on Monday to treat babies with a rare fatal genetic disorder. Zolgensma, a life-saving dr…

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New US guidance says fully vaccinated people can meet without masks.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that fully vaccinated Americans can return to some sense of normalcy. Those who have received the required jabs can visit with other vaccinated people and some unvaccinated people, according to the new gui…

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WHO: 1 in 4 people projected to have hearing problems by 2050.

Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, warns the World Health Organization’s (WHO) first World Report on Hearing, released today. At least 700 million of these people will require access to ear and h…

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Ivory Coast becomes second country to receive vaccines via COVAX.

Ivory Coast has become the second country to receive a shipment of vaccines on 26 February 2021 via COVAX, the global vaccine-sharing programme. The vaccines, 504,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India, arrived on Friday in the comme…

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Ghana becomes first country to receive Covid vaccine through COVAX program.

Ghana has become the first country to receive Covid-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization's COVAX program on Wednesday, a joint statement issued by UNICEF Ghana and WHO Ghana said. The shipment, consisting of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines, arrived…

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Russia detects world’s 1st case of H5N8 avian flu transmission to humans.

Russia said on Saturday 20 Feb 2021 that its scientists had detected the world's first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu from birds to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization. In televised remarks, the head of Russia's health watchdog …

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148th session of the Executive Board of World Health Organisation.

The 148th session of the Executive Board take place on 18-26 January 2021. The Executive Board is composed of 34 technically qualified members elected for three-year terms. The annual Board meeting is held in January when the members agree upon the agenda for the World Heal…

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