‘We need to get back to the basics’- WHO European director Dr. Hans Kluge in response to a 9% increase in cases over the past week in Europe.
Image Credit: Ida Guldbaek Arentsen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the number of new cases of coronavirus increased by 9% over […]
Vice-president of Tanzania dies from coronavirus.
Image Credit: The EastAfrican The Vice-President of Zanzibia, Tanzania Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad died at the age of 77 due to COVID-19. He was hospitalized on January 31st, and found […]
Resurgence of Ebola virus in Guinea.
Image Credit:NIAID/CDC Guinean health authorities announced that eight people have been tested for the Ebola virus. Three of them have died. The resurgence of the Ebola virus in the West […]
WHO reports one case of H9N2 avian influenza and one case of H5N6 avian influenza in China.
Image Credit: Reuters/ China Daily In the first week of 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported one case of H9N2 avian influenza in Guangdong Province, China. The new case […]
Small scale pharmaceutical companies stop producing hydroxychloroquinone as price of raw materials increases drastically.
Image Credit: picture-alliance/AP Photo/ J.Locher Small pharmaceutical companies in the city of Haridwar have stopped production of hydroxychloroquinone tablets as the raw materials needed to produce it has increased drastically […]
Turkey to receive 3 million doses of the Chinese vaccine; Brazil increasingly skeptic about CoronaVac effectiveness.
Image Credit: CFP On Thursday, Dr. Serhat Unal, a health expert in the Turkish medical board announced that the Chinese experimental vaccine developed by the Sinovac Biotech has shown an […]
Prime Minister of Bahrain Al-Khalifa dies.
Image Credit: Reuters The Prime Minister of Bahrain Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa died at the age of 84 in Mayo Climic Hospital, United States. He is the longest serving Prime […]
Germany reports a new daily record of cases.
Image Credit: Robert Utrecht/picture-alliance On Thursday, Germany reported 11,200 new cases, a new daily record of cases since the pandemic began. It is a sharp jump over the previous day […]
Poland records a new daily record of cases.
Image Credit: Czarek Sokolowski/AP Polish health authority reported 10,040 cases and 130 deaths on Wednesday. The rate of infection has doubled in less than 3 weeks, and has soared above […]
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