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Younger children could soon be eligible to receive an updated Covid-19 booster shot. Pfizer and BioNTech on Monday said they completed their submission to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of their updated Covid-19 booster for children ages 5 through 11. […]
Tedros, an ethnic Tigrayan, was born in 1965 in what is now the Eritrean capital, Asmara. Back then, it was part of Abyssinia, or the Ethiopian Empire, where Tedros said he grew up amid political violence and poverty.
Brian Myers spent many nights during the pandemic embalming one person after another—some of them close friends—until morning dawned. His business, Myers Mortuary Cremation Services in Columbia, S.C., was booming. Yet Mr. Myers, 45, said the additional work was marked by stretches of exhaustion and […]
Some Barbados Community College (BCC) students struggled to cope in the online learning environment during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and had to seek help for mental health issues. That disclosure came from principal Annette Alleyne who said that when most classes were conducted […]
In today’s Situation Update, we are including a link to two hospital capacity reports, one outlining the number and percent of Unoccupied Adult ICU beds by region, and the other the number and percent of Unoccupied Adult Inpatient Beds by region. We want to emphasize […]
The UAE government will hold a special Covid-19 media briefing on Monday. The National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority said the 5.30pm broadcast would contain Covid-19 updates without elaborating further. Such briefings have taken place regularly during the pandemic — at first weekly before […]
A male patient in his 30s, with no known comorbidities, arrived at the emergency department complaining of severe headache and subjective weakness in the left arm. The headache was described as severe, generalized, and throbbing. It persisted for four days and was initially only associated […]
Gjoa Haven’s continuing care centre is suffering from a COVID-19 outbreak. All eight residents and one staff member tested positive for the virus, Nunavut’s health department said on Friday. “We looked at the situation and we felt it was warranted to do a public advisory to […]
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show Bromsgrove recorded 274 more deaths between March 2020 and June 2022 than the five-year average would suggest. This was 10.8% more deaths than were expected over this time period – meaning the area has an excess death rate […]
