Tag Archives: Health

• UN drug agency loosens global controls on cannabis, following WHO advice 3 December 2020 | Reuters Staff This post has no comments yet

  The UN drug agency’s member states on Wednesday narrowly voted to remove cannabis from the most tightly controlled category of narcotic drugs, following the World Health Organization’s recommendation to make research into its medical use. ...

• In world first, UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine 2 December 2020 | Guy Faulconbridge and Paul Sandle This post has no comments yet

  Britain approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, jumping ahead of the rest of the world in the race to begin the most crucial mass inoculation programme in history with a shot tested in wide-scale clinical trials. ...

• Coronavirus: Here’s how you can rebuild your strength after COVID-19 4 November 2020 This post has no comments yet

  COVID-19 has not only disrupted the lives of millions of people, but also taken a toll on their health and physical fitness. While some have escaped the wrath of the deadly virus, others are either still battling it or are struggling. ...

• Johnson locks down England as UK virus cases pass 1 million 1 November 2020 | Andrew MacAskill and Guy Faulconbridge This post has no comments yet

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered England back into a national lockdown after the United Kingdom passed the milestone of one million COVID-19 cases and a second wave of infections threatened to overwhelm the health service. ...

• Half of Indians likely to have coronavirus by February 19 October 2020 | Shilpa Jamkhandikar This post has no comments yet

  At least half of India’s 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus by next February, helping slow the spread of the disease, a member of a federal government committee tasked with providing projections. ...

• China emerges from the pandemic 12 October 2020 | Warren Serink This post has one comment

  Something nearly unthinkable has happened in China: a return to normal – from morning tai-chi at Beijing's Temple of the Sun, to the lunch crush in the central business district, and the rush home at sunset across the Avenue of Eternal Peac ...

• Nepal warns of healthcare crisis as coronavirus infections cross 100,000 9 October 2020 | Gopal Sharma This post has no comments yet

  Nepal’s total coronavirus infections passed 100,000 on Friday, the health ministry said, and are rising at a faster rate than both Pakistan and Bangladesh which have far larger populations. ...

• India’s coronavirus death toll passes 100,000 with no sign of an end 3 October 2020 | Anuron Kumar Mitra and Devjyot Ghoshal This post has no comments yet

  India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating. ...

• More than 150 nations join global vaccine plan but US, China absent 21 September 2020 | Stephanie Nebehay and Kate Kelland This post has no comments yet

  Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against COVID-19, an alliance led by the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, but superpowers China and the United States did not sign up. ...

• India’s coronavirus cases pass 5 million 16 September 2020 | Jalees Andrabi This post has no comments yet

  India's total coronavirus cases passed five million on Wednesday, health ministry data showed, as the pandemic extends its grip on the vast country at an ever-faster rate. ...