Road blocks lifted as Colombia reaches deal with striking truckers | Coronavirus pandemic News

Road blocks lifted as Colombia reaches deal with striking truckers | Coronavirus pandemic News

For days, truckers had blocked roads in protest against the end of COVID-era fuel subsidies, snarling transport. Truckers in Colombia have reached a deal with the government and agreed to lift a five-day road blockade, according to President Gustavo Petro. The deal, announced on Friday, is aimed at assuaging concerns…

Has the next pandemic already started? | Coronavirus pandemic

Has the next pandemic already started? | Coronavirus pandemic

In mid-July, the US state of Colorado reported six cases of avian flu – or H5N1 – in samples taken from poultry workers. This brought the national total to 10 cases confirmed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since April 2024. The United States government has upped zoonotic/animal testing, and…

Did COVID’s first wave kill eight times more Indians than announced? | Health News

Did COVID’s first wave kill eight times more Indians than announced? | Health News

New Delhi, India – India’s actual death toll during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world’s most populous country could be eight times higher than the government’s official numbers, reveals a new study. While that initial wave of the virus caught the world off guard, leaving governments…

World leaders launch programme to boost vaccine production in Africa | Health News

World leaders launch programme to boost vaccine production in Africa | Health News

Initiative announced in Paris will incentivise and offset start-up costs for vaccine manufacturing in the continent. French President Emmanuel Macron has joined several African leaders to kick off a planned $1.1bn project to accelerate vaccine production in Africa, after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed inequalities in access to inoculation. The launch…

US ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China’s COVID efforts: Report | Coronavirus pandemic News

US ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China’s COVID efforts: Report | Coronavirus pandemic News

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus, an investigation by the Reuters news agency has found. Through phony internet accounts meant…

Amid global polarisation, the pandemic agreement encourages cooperation | World Health Organization

Amid global polarisation, the pandemic agreement encourages cooperation | World Health Organization

For more than two years, countries of the world have worked together towards one historic and generational goal – to ensure we are better prepared for the next pandemic by learning lessons from the devastation caused by COVID-19. At a time when conflicts, politics and economics have wrought destruction, discord…

Mexico’s teachers seek relief from pandemic-era spike in school robberies | Education News

Mexico’s teachers seek relief from pandemic-era spike in school robberies | Education News

Guadalajara, Mexico – In Maria Soto’s classroom, nearly half of the fourth-graders have not yet learned how to read. The rest are at least a year behind. For these kids, the pandemic era continues, even if no one wears a mask anymore. But as Soto sees it, the problem lies…

China tries to ‘bury the memory’ and trauma of zero-COVID era | Coronavirus pandemic News

China tries to ‘bury the memory’ and trauma of zero-COVID era | Coronavirus pandemic News

When Evelyn Ma’s two-year-old daughter had a persistently high fever and a bad cough earlier this month, she and her husband began to worry. The couple decided to take their daughter to a nearby children’s hospital in the city of Jinan. But as Ma walked through the doors with her…