Health

(LOOP NEWS CARIBBEAN) – In a few days, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Heads of Government will conclude talks with an international supplier of PCR machines to determine if a facility can be […]

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Some 120 million rapid tests for COVID-19 will be made available to poorer countries at US$5 each, the World Health Organization announced Monday — if it can find the money. The WHO said […]

PARIS, France (AFP) – The global death toll from the new coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passed one million on Sunday. The pandemic has […]

BEIJING, China (AP) — A Chinese health official said Friday that the country’s annual production capacity for coronavirus vaccines will top one billion doses next year, following an aggressive government support program for construction of […]

(CMC) — The Inter-American Task Force on NCDs is urging Caribbean countries to improve their prevention and control programmes so as to reduce the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The task force — which […]

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — More than 60 wealthy nations have joined a WHO-backed programme to facilitate poor countries’ access to coronavirus vaccines, but the US and China are not on the list published Monday. The […]

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) – A group of wealthy nations representing 13 percent of the global population have already bought up more than half of the promised doses of future COVID-19 vaccines, according to a report […]

If our society doesn’t adapt to current climate challenges, life as we know it will cease to exist. This was the basis of the recently launched EbA project in Gouyave, St John by the Grenada Community […]