Health

PARIS, France (AFP) — Fossil fuel pollution caused more than eight million premature deaths in 2018, accounting for nearly 20 per cent of adult mortality worldwide, researchers reported Tuesday. Half of that grim tally was split across […]

WUHAN, China (AP) — The coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and is more likely to have jumped to humans from an animal, a World Health Organization (WHO) team has concluded, […]

PARIS, France (AFP)— Climate change may have played a “key role” in the transmission of the novel coronavirus to humans by driving several species of pathogen-carrying bats into closer contact, research showed on Friday. The virus, which […]

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Pharmaceuticals giant Johnson & Johnson on Thursday submitted an application for emergency authorisation of its COVID-19 vaccine with US health authorities, the company said in a statement. J&J subsidiary Janssen Biotech “has […]

(CMC) — Grenada is scheduled to receive 45,600 COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX facility and delivery is estimated to begin later this month under the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing Procedure (WHO EUL). The […]

(AP)— AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine does more than prevent people from falling seriously ill — it appears to reduce transmission of the virus and offers strong protection for three months on just a single dose, researchers […]

The UK will offer its world leading genomics expertise to help identify new variants of the virus that cause COVID-19 in countries in the Caribbean and around the world. The announcement comes as part of […]

(AP)— Novavax Inc said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89 per cent effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work — though not quite as well […]