Tue 20 May 2025: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) member states, 194, on Tuesday formally adopted the first-ever pandemic agreement, marking a milestone in global public health cooperation. The consensus decision at the 78th World Health Assembly follows over three years of negotiations sparked by the inequities and gaps exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO […]
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Tue 13 May 2025: COVID-19 cases continue to surge across Taiwan, with nearly 10,000 seeking medical care last week, Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday, Focus Taiwan reported. On May 4-10, Taiwan saw 9,978 outpatient and emergency visits related to COVID-19, a 66% increase from the previous week. According to the CDC, this marks the fifth […]
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Sat 19 April 2025: The increasing trend of reducing foreign aid to Africa is forcing the continent to reassess its approach to healthcare delivery. African countries face a major challenge of dealing with high rates of communicable diseases, such as malaria and HIV/Aids, and rising levels of non-communicable diseases. But the continent’s health systems don’t have the […]
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Sat 19 April 2025: The Trump administration replaced the Covid.gov website with a platform that centers on the theory that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, NBC News reported Friday. Once a hub for COVID-19 resources such as vaccine information, testing access and long COVID support, the site now redirects users to […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Tue 08 April 2025: A deadly, highly antibiotic-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii has been detected in a hospital in Terengganu, Malaysia. Scientists identified the strain as belonging to the globally prevalent GC2 lineage, posing a serious public health threat. Researchers analyzed 126 bacterial samples collected between 2011 and 2020, revealing strong resistance to […]
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Wed 02 April 2025: Australia is facing the regular emergence of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus more than five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. The latest variant — LP.8.1 — is on the rise, making up close to one in five COVID-19 cases in New South Wales, local broadcaster SBS News reported Wednesday. It has become the […]
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Fri 14 March 2025: China Thursday said that it is “extremely unlikely” that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, rejecting the claims of the German intelligence report. “It is ‘extremely unlikely’ that the pandemic was caused by a lab leak, this is the authoritative conclusion reached by the […]
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Thu 13 March 2025: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a “pandemic” on March 11, 2020, and since then, over 7 million people have lost their lives worldwide. Although the disease was removed from the “International Public Health Emergency” category in 2023, fatalities continue. The first cases of COVID-19 emerged in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, when patients […]
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Tue 11 March 2025: German biotech firm BioNTech reported a loss of €665.3 million ($721 million) in 2024, as demand for its COVID-19 vaccines fell, according to the company’s financial results report on Monday. The company, which posted a €930.3 million profit in 2023, failed to make a profit in a fiscal year for the […]
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Sun 02 March 2025: Long-term health risks for COVID-19 patients who are hospitalized include increased chances of death and organ disorders, even years after discharge, according to a nationwide study published in the journal Infectious Diseases. Researchers examined data from over 380,000 individuals, including more than 60,000 hospitalized due to COVID-19 in 2020. They tracked […]
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