Health

From factory to syringe, the world’s most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates need nonstop sterile refrigeration to work. But despite great strides in equipping developing countries to maintain the vaccine “cold chain,” nearly 3 billion of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in places with insufficient temperature-controlled storage for an immunisation campaign to bring COVID-19 under control. […]

Pollution levels in Delhi dipped slightly on Monday but the air quality stayed in the ‘poor’ category, with government agencies saying the average air quality index (AQI) was likely to slip to ‘very poor’ in the next few days due to a change in wind direction and a reduction in speed. The city recorded a […]

Londoners set to struggle with grimmer lockdown blues as local MP’s announce tougher Tier 2 COVID measures from Saturday, imposing bans on indoor households mixing. Essex is among the counties, expected to move to high alert restrictions this weekend. Under the new curbs, households will also be barred from mixing in pubs and restaurants. This […]

The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, announced that residents can now book an appointment to get a COVID-19 PCR test in malls across Dubai. The PCR testing stations, which are located in Mall of the Emirates, City Centre Mirdif and City Centre Deira are receiving customers seven days a week from 11 am to 6 pm […]

The Emirati colours soar high in the Arab region as UAE ranks first on the ‘COVID Economic Recovery Index Ranking’ issued by the Horizon Research Group. The Index assesses how 122 countries are positioned for recovery, based on their overall health resilience, and the pre-existing structural strengths and weaknesses at the core of their recovery […]

Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a major source of liver disease that affects millions worldwide. Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio’s work identified a major […]

The outbreak of Covid-19 is the best thing that ever happened to the mask industry, but it’s going to require a bit of cleaning up. Side effects of the boom include diplomatic spats, quality scandals, price gouging, and fraud.  And dealing with excess capacity and a rising mountain of polypropylene waste will be a headache. […]

President Donald Trump could be discharged from the hospital where he is being treated for COVID-19 as soon as Monday, according to his doctors, although his condition remains unclear and outside experts warn that his case may be severe. Hospitalised and quarantined at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington since Friday, Trump has […]

The Washington State Department of Agriculture is desperately looking to track down a nest of giant Asian hornets before they go into what scientists call “the slaughter phase.” Six giant Asian hornets have been caught, trapped or reported since Sept. 21 in Washington state, according to agriculture officials. Sven-Erik Spichiger, an entomologist with the agriculture department, […]

Doctors marched with their families and a few friends in Greece’s second-largest city Saturday not to protest, but to debunk misinformation about face masks circulating during the coronavirus pandemic. A few dozen people fast-walked and ran 2 kilometers through central Thessaloniki while wearing face masks and then measured their oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, finding […]