UK medical bodies on Monday said patients were dying due to inadequate care and urged the government to act as Britain’s health service grapples with a winter crisis of strikes and soaring demand. The public National Health Service (NHS) faced budget constraints for more than a decade before the Covid-19Continue Reading

Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement for domestic and outbound travelers, as well as federal bureaucrats and transportation workers, will be suspended starting next week, officials said Tuesday. Masking, however, will still be required on planes and trains. “I’m pleased to announce that on June 20 our government will suspend the requirementContinue Reading

The Covid-19 pandemic killed around 15 million people worldwide in 2020 and 2021, the World Health Organization estimated on Thursday – nearly triple the number of deaths officially attributed to the disease. The WHO’s long-awaited estimate of the total number of deaths caused by the pandemic – including lives lostContinue Reading

The streets of Beijing’s business district were deserted on Thursday as the government called for people to return to work remotely, with scores of subway stations shut after a national holiday muted by coronavirus curbs. Chinese authorities have stuck to their zero-Covid policy of lockdowns and mass testing as theyContinue Reading

Africa is facing an explosion of preventable diseases due to delays in vaccinating children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday, with measles cases jumping 400 percent. Twenty African countries reported measles outbreaks in the first quarter of this year, eight more than in the first three months of 2021.Continue Reading