Environment

Caricom Countries Set Out COP26 Outcomes

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The executive director of the Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), Dr Colin Young, says the consequence for Caribbean countries will be “very dire” if the delegates to an international conference in […]

Health

Pharmaceutical Firms Rake In Billions With COVID Jabs

PARIS, France (AFP) — COVID vaccines have brought billions of dollars to the coffers of pharmaceutical companies. Germany’s BioNTech, maker with partner Pfizer of the pioneering mRNA jab, raised its vaccine revenue forecast for 2021 in its latest earnings report on […]

Environment

Don’t Bet On Eruptions To Lessen Climate Change — Study

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Climate change could magnify the atmospheric cooling effects of once-in-a-century volcanic eruptions, but also lessen the impact of smaller eruptions, according to new research released Thursday. Scientists at the University of Cambridge […]

Health

WHO Mass-Testing Three Potential COVID-19 Treatments

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization on Wednesday announced major international trials of three drugs to find out whether they improve the condition of hospitalised COVID-19 patients. Artesunate, imatinib and infliximab will be tested on […]

Health

China Pledges Two Billion Vaccine Doses To World — Xi

BEIJING, China (AFP) — China will “strive to provide” two billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world this year and donate US$100 million to the international vaccine distribution system known as Covax, President Xi Jinping said Thursday. […]

Health

Latin America And Caribbean Face An “Avalanche Of Worsening Health Issues” If COVID-19 Disruption Of Health Services Continues, PAHO Warns

WASHINGTON, D.C (PAHO) –-The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted essential health services in most countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, threatening immunization of children and care of expectant mothers and people with chronic […]

Health

CDC Signals Change To PCR Testing

WASHINGTON, United States — The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that it will, after December 31, 2021, withdraw the request to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization […]