By Fiston Mahamba KINSHASA (Reuters) - Two people have contracted Ebola and died this week in Democratic Republic of Congo s North Kivu province, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the health ministry said in a statement. A 60-year-old woman who died on Wednesday in the district of Biena had a link with a woman who also died after contracting Ebola and was married to a survivor of the previous major outbreak, the statement said. Congo s health ministry has deployed a team to the area and is tracing more than 100 contacts of the two women in the health zones of Biena and Katwa, it said in the statement. Ebola swept through eastern Congo from 2018 to 2020 in an outbreak that killed more than 2,200 people before it was declared over last June. It is not unusual for sporadic cases to occur following a major outbreak, according to the WHO. Congo s equatorial forests have been a breeding ground for the Ebola virus, which causes severe vomiting and diarrhoea and is spread through contact
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Wealthy German high-tech hub doubles as anti-vaxxer base
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February 9, 2021 - 13:25
By Thomas Escritt
STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - Christoph Hueck illustrates the challenge Germany faces in rolling out a mass vaccination campaign to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. A scientist living in a wealthy, high-tech region, he does not plan to have any of the shots on offer. I will not get vaccinated, Hueck, a molecular geneticist who authored a string of immunology papers before changing careers, told Reuters with a smile.
By Emma Farge and John Miller GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.S. official told a World Health Organization meeting on Tuesday that Washington would join a programme to boost COVID-19 testing, diagnostics and vaccines as officials urged it to increase financing for a global response to the pandemic. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the announcement which follows confirmation last month that the United States under President Joe Biden will remain in the Geneva-based agency. Former President Donald Trump criticized the agency and halted funding. We want to underscore the commitment of the United States to multilateralism and our common cause to respond to this pandemic and improve global public health, Colin L. McIff, Acting Director at the Office of Global Affairs in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The virtual WHO Facilitation Council aims to help fill a $27 billion funding gap for the WHO-backed programme, called the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, that
Published February 05. 2021 3:59PM | Updated February 05. 2021 8:48PM
Dave Altimari, The Connecticut Mirror
The state is expanding its telephone vaccine appointment system to seven days a week and adding another 125 people to answer them in anticipation of the next wave of residents eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
In a news release Friday, the state Department of Public Health announced that the phones will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. starting Monday. With the additional staff, the service can book up to 10,000 appointments per week at 12 locations.
The phone number to call for vaccination scheduling is (877) 918-2224. DPH is partnering with the United Way of Connecticut, which operates the Vaccine Appointment Assist Line.