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Africa’s top public health body gets $100 mln from World Bank
A participant stands near a logo of World Bank at the International Monetary Fund – World Bank Annual Meeting 2018 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, October 12, 2018. REUTERS/Johannes P. Christo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register JOHANNESBURG, July 22 (Reuters) – Africa’s main public health body, the Africa Centres for Disease …
Health warnings issued as heatwave scorches Europe
WMO issues warning on air quality in towns and cities UK declares first red heat warning for Monday, Tuesday Wildfires ablaze in France, Spain and Portugal LEIRIA, Portugal/LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) – Hundreds more people were evacuated from their homes as wildfires blistered land in France, Spain and Portugal on Friday, and officials in Europe …
COVID and bust: China’s private health system hurt by tough coronavirus controls
SHANGHAI, July 6 (Reuters) – On March 24, a court in the central Chinese city of Fuyang announced that a $1.5 billion hospital built just four years earlier had filed for bankruptcy because it was unable to pay its debts. For most of the last two years, the Fuyang Minsheng Hospital had been fully involved …
Factbox: Health emergencies: WHO’s highest form of alert
LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) – World Health Organization (WHO) experts meet on Thursday to evaluate whether monkeypox constitutes an international emergency, its highest form of alert. read more Only six such emergencies have previously been declared: COVID-19 (2020), the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (2019), Zika virus (2016), polio (2014), West Africa’s Ebola …
First steps in reforming global health emergency rules adopted at WHO meeting
A logo is pictured on the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register GENEVA, May 28 (Reuters) – Countries around the world on Saturday adopted an initial U.S.-led reform of the rules around disease outbreaks, known as the International …
Hong Kong questions costs of COVID rules on mental health, livelihoods
HONG KONG, April 14 (Reuters) – To fight COVID, Hong Kong shut schools and businesses, nearly sealed its borders for two years, banned more than two people from gathering and quarantined whole buildings. Still the draconian restrictions were unable to contain the coronavirus, and with more than 8,600 deaths of mostly elderly, unvaccinated people, many …
‘A war for life of our child’: Health crisis spills out of Ukraine conflict
Over 1.7 million have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion WHO warns of Ukraine’s health emergency crossing borders Children with cancer among patients needing urgent care WARSAW/LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) – Katya was on the way to hospital for an urgent operation for her 17-year-old daughter Alinka, who has bone cancer, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Their …
Congo faces third wave of coronavirus, says health minister
A general view shows an empty street during a lockdown due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), next to a residential building in Gombe district of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo April 19, 2020. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a third wave of coronavirus infections, with its epicentre in the …