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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 …
New Ebola case confirmed in northwestern Congo, health authorities say
FILE PHOTO – A WWF billboard listing protected species stands in front of a bushmeat market in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 19, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Nicolon Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register KINSHASA, April 23 (Reuters) – A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in northwestern Democratic Republic of …
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 …
Vietnam detects hybrid of Indian and UK COVID-19 variants
Medical workers in protective suits stand outside a quarantined building amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Hanoi, Vietnam, January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Thanh Hue Authorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a combination of the Indian and UK COVID-19 variants and spreads quickly by air, the health minister said on Saturday. …
Brazil’s former health minister shields Bolsonaro in COVID-19 inquiry
Former Brazil’s Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello is seen after a meeting of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee (CPI) to investigate government actions and management during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at the Federal Senate in Brasilia, Brazil May 19, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado Former Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello denied on Wednesday that Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro …
