Health

[ad_1] Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continued coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I am Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur. The World Health Organization (WHO) is asking for more funding to accelerate vaccine development for some seven to eight “top” candidates, according to the head of the UN agency. Tedros …

[ad_1] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said his government will not pay for nearly eight million substandard medical grade masks that come from China. These N95 masks were part of a shipment of 11 million, of which only one million met Canadian standards, while another 1.6 million are still …

[ad_1] The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges for agriculture and food security, and governments must take action, writes Raghbendra Jha. In 2016, even before the COVID-19 crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that 815 million people or 10.7 percent of the population at that time were starving. The 2015 …

[ad_1] BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhua) – The Chinese health authority said on Tuesday that no new cases of nationally transmitted COVID-19 were reported in mainland China on Monday. An imported case was reported in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the National Health Commission said in its daily report. Also on …

[ad_1] Credit: Megan Murrell / University of Minnesota SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19It is highly infectious. Interestingly, in many patients, it triggers poor immune responses, which prolongs the disease. This helps the virus to spread widely, exacerbating the global pandemic. In a new study published in the procedures of …

[ad_1] WhatsApp Facebook Twitter Email 0 0Share Wellington New Zealand companies, including shopping malls, cinemas, cafes and gyms, will be allowed to reopen starting Thursday, as stringent restrictions to stop the spread of the coronavirus were further lowered on Monday. The Pacific nation was locked up for more than a …

[ad_1] A “cancer screening” attempts to find cancer when it’s small and curable, and is important tool for reducing the cancer burden in the world. The U.S. Preventatives Services Task Force recommends routine screening for breast, colon, cervical, and lung cancers. When reports out of Wuhan showed that patients with …

[ad_1] On the day Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern imposed a strict national blockade in March, no one in New Zealand had died from the coronavirus. Compare that to United Kingdon: 335 people had already died when Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered the British public to stay home. Like many world …

[ad_1] Executive Summary The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic is dramatically changing the way millions of women, men, girls and boys around the world lead their lives. Jordan, a country hosting more than 700,000 refugees in a troubled region, has been profoundly affected by the shock of COVID-19 in its economy and …

[ad_1] reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.May 11, 2020 Unprecedented resources and collaboration will be required to research and develop safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19 that can be manufactured and delivered on the scale of billions of doses to people around the world. Vaccine development often takes years. To speed …