March 21, 2021 0 Largest Vaccine Producer Delays Shipments to Some Countries The world’s largest vaccine producer has told at least three countries that their COVID-19 vaccine shipments will be ...
March 21, 2021 0 Miami Beach Imposes Curfew on Spring Break Crowds Throngs of revelers flocking to Miami Beach, Florida, for spring break have become so uncontrollable that authorities imposed a ...
March 20, 2021 0 Climate Change Intensifying Water-Related Disasters Ahead of World Water Day Monday, the World Meteorological Organization warns climate change is intensifying water-related ...
March 19, 2021 0 Zoos, Scientists Aim to Curb People Giving Virus to Animals The coughing among the western lowland gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in January was the first warning sign. Soon the ...
March 19, 2021 0 Britain PM Johnson Gets First Dose of AstraZeneca Vaccine British Prime Minister Boris Johnson received his first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Friday and urged the public to ...
March 19, 2021 0 Australian Surgeon Treats South Sudanese Women, Girls Suffering from Fistula A 14-year-old South Sudanese girl who could not control her urine or bowel movements for two years is lying on a bed at the ...
March 19, 2021 0 German Health Officials: Virus Spreading ‘Exponentially’ German health officials Friday said coronavirus cases in the country are rising at “an exponential rate,” forcing the ...
March 19, 2021 0 Biden, Harris to Georgia as Asian American Hate Crimes, Vaccines Take Center Stage U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are traveling to the southern U.S. state of Georgia on Friday, ...
March 19, 2021 0 European Medicines Agency Again Approves AstraZeneca Vaccine Two European prime ministers – Britain’s Boris Johnson and France’s Jean Castex – are being inoculated Friday ...
March 18, 2021 0 US to Provide Coronavirus Vaccines to Neighbors U.S. and Mexican officials deny Washington is attaching any strings to a likely shipment of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses ...
March 18, 2021 0 This Week in Space NASA calls its latest mission on the surface of Mars a “Wright Brothers moment” of aeronautical pioneering. The ISS ...
March 18, 2021 0 More Europeans Dying from COVID Now Than Last Year, WHO Says The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director for Europe said Thursday that the COVID-19 situation in the continent has taken ...
March 18, 2021 0 UN Agencies Call for Action Against Ageism Leading United Nations agencies are calling for urgent action to combat ageism, which they say harms the well-being of older ...
March 18, 2021 0 EU Investigators to Release Findings on AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine The European Union’s medications watchdog is due to release initial results Thursday of its investigation into whether there is ...
March 18, 2021 0 Australia Responds To COVID-19 Crisis in Neighboring Papua New Guinea Australia is beginning an urgent rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations in the Torres Strait in northern Queensland because of a sharp ...
March 18, 2021 0 Scientists Determine New Cause of Missing Water on Mars Scientists are rethinking the cause of water loss on Mars in the face of new evidence that challenges the long-held theory that ...
March 17, 2021 0 Drugmakers Prepare COVID Vaccines Against Variants Testing is under way for modified versions of COVID-19 vaccines that aim to deal with coronavirus variants. Experts say current ...
March 17, 2021 0 Mass Migration, COVID Return FGM to Shadows, Aid Group Says Mass migration and the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the worldwide spread of female genital mutilation, or FGM, executed ...
March 17, 2021 0 WHO: AstraZeneca Vaccine Benefits Outweigh Risks The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement Wednesday, saying it believes the benefits of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 ...
March 17, 2021 0 EU Chief Threatens Ban on British COVID-19 Vaccine Exports European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Wednesday said British-based vaccine maker AstraZeneca has underdelivered its ...
March 17, 2021 0 Moderna Begins Testing its COVID-19 Vaccine in Young Children U.S.-based pharmaceutical company Moderna has begun testing its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine in young children to determine if ...
March 16, 2021 0 Regenerative Sea Slug Offers Distant Hope for Humans Researchers in Japan recently discovered that some sea slugs can regrow their bodies. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi reports that ...
March 16, 2021 0 Pakistan Faces Third, More Infectious COVID Wave Pakistan says it is now facing a third wave of the novel coronavirus. Officials have particularly expressed concern over the ...
March 16, 2021 0 Europe’s Medical Regulator to Rule on AstraZeneca Safety Europe’s medical regulator, the European Medicines Agency, will announce Thursday its findings on the safety of ...