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The World Health Organization (WHO), together with the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), released data on the global immunization of children and adolescents. According to the information, there is an advance in the level of vaccination for th
vaccine A senior citizen receives a dose of Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccine in Brasilia, Brazil, on March 22, 2021. Brazil is one of the countries hardest hit by the virus worldwide in terms of both deaths and cases, second only to the United States.Photograph by Lucio Tavora/Xinhua via Redux Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. Brazil once vaccinated 10 million people for polio in a day. What went wrong with COVID-19? In a country known for past public health planning, coronavirus cases are still rising while immunizations lag—and now young people are getti...
COVID-19: Several 'proxy wars' spawned by the pandemic When Australia, India, Japan and the US — countries strategically allied under the so-called Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) — switched focus to fighting COVID-19, it was seen as one more of the several 'proxy wars' spawned by the pandemic. The 'Quad Vaccine,' announced at a virtual summit of the leaders of the four countries on 12 March, is based on a vaccine developed by the US transnational, Johnson & Johnson, produced by India's Biological E Limited, and funded by the other two partners. The plan is to churn out a billion d...
Brazil coronavirus: country in crisis as second wave and deadly new variant overwhelm hospitals CNN 3/11/2021 By Flora Charner and Marcia Reverdosa, CNN © Eraldo Peres/AP Healthcare workers wait in the rain as a patient suspected of having COVID-19 is brought by ambulance to the public HRAN Hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) A second wave of Covid-19 is ripping through Brazil, pushing hospitals and ICUs toward collapse and claiming record numbers of daily deaths. While a new variant of the coronavirus spreads throughout the countr...
As the country's hospital system is overrun, the president has told people to 'stop whining'.