Health

(CMC)— The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is appealing to Caribbean and other nationals to avoid travel and large gathering during the holidays. On Wednesday, PAHO said that holiday season gatherings and travel involve risks […]

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is 95 per cent effective according to a second interim analysis of clinical trial data, its developers said on Tuesday. The two-dose vaccine will be available […]

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)— The United States hopes to begin coronavirus vaccinations in early December, a top government health official said Sunday, the latest positive news to emerge even as cases surge across the worst-hit nation and […]

Beginning Saturday, 28 November 2020, all travellers to Grenada will be required to obtain a PCR test from a certified laboratory within 72 hours of travel, and receive negative results in order to enter the […]

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)— An emergency use authorization request for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech was expected to be filed with the FDA Friday, the US government and BioNTech’s co-founder said. This type of […]

(CMC) — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Wednesday pledged its support for countries in the Americas, including the Caribbean, facing the challenges and cost of a future COVID-19 vaccine. Delivering vaccines for COVID-19 […]

(AFP) — A leading COVID-19 vaccine candidate has shown to safely produce a robust immune response in healthy older adults, its British makers said Thursday as it released its phase 2 trial results. The vaccine, […]

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Vaccinating 20% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean against COVID-19 will cost more than $2 billion but low income countries will be helped by the COVAX Facility led by […]