White House vaccinations coordinator Dr. Bechara Choucair has announced his resignation and return to the private sector. Choucair has joined President Joe Biden’s administration during the transition last year and was a former Chicago health commissioner and senior executive at …
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that there could be a shortage of 1 to 2 billion syringes for COVID-19 vaccines that could undermine immunization efforts. The UN health agency called to medical manufacturers on Nov. 9 to ramp up …
COVID-19 may have killed between 80,000 to 180,000 healthcare workers from January 2020 to May 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Oct. 21. In a 26-page working paper, WHO based the grim estimate from the 3.45 million reported …
Spain’s health ministry on Tuesday has approved administering COVID-19 booster shots for elderly people aged 70 and above. The National Public Health Commission decided to offer booster jab vaccinations of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines starting at the end of …
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday has released its Independent Commission’s report into allegations of sexual abuse by aid workers during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The investigation found more than 80 alleged cases of …
Germany’s Health Minister Jens Spahn has announced on Wednesday that the country will stop paying compensation to unvaccinated workers who are forced to quarantine after COVID-19 exposure. The government had been paying workers who are sent into quarantine for at …
Amnesty International on Wednesday has released a report denouncing six top manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine for “fueling an unprecedented human rights crisis” by refusing to waive intellectual property rights. The recent report, titled “A Double Dose of Inequality,” criticized …
France has suspended 3,000 health workers without pay for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 ahead of a deadline this week. “A large number of these suspensions will be temporary,” Health Minister Olivier Veran told RTL radio, adding that the …
The National Health Service (NHS) in England will receive an additional £5.4 billion ($7.5 billion) over the next six months to support its COVID-19 response, the government of the United Kingdom announced on Sept. 6. The government said that the …
Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for ages 12 to 17 years old. According to FDA chief Eric Domingo, the FDA’s regulatory experts and the country’s vaccine expert panel have given the go-ahead to …