PRETORIA, South Africa, Nov. 26, 2021 - South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla says a new coronavirus variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is of serious concern because of its high number of mutations and rapid spread among young people in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has warned the nation that if the current COVID-19 infection rate continues, the parallel health system would be overwhelmed within days.
Havana, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Ministry of Public Health reported today that 81.5 percent (nine million 114 thousand 147 people) have the complete vaccination plan against Covid-19.
At this point in the pandemic, you or someone you know has probably received at least one COVID-19 test. But do you know which kind of test you got and the strengths and weaknesses of these different tests?
Washington, Nov 15 (Prensa Latina) In an unexpected discovery, researchers have identified what appears to be a significant vascular defect in patients with moderately severe Parkinson's disease, a scientific source reported Monday.
KINGSTON, November 8, 2021: The Opposition Spokesman on Health and Wellness, Member of Parliament Dr. Morais Guy, has extending congratulations to Jamaica’s frontline health workers on surpassing the one million target in Covid-19 vaccine doses administered.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, November 7, 2021 - Effective Monday November 8, 2021, non-citizens who are non-immigrants traveling to the United States by air, from any part of the world, must establish that they are fully vaccinated before entry to that country will be granted.
HAVANA, Cuba - A historic medical collaboration between Cuba and the United States of America by way of the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s collaboration, with the Centro de Inmunología Molecular (CIM) in Havana, is now underway, aimed at combating lung cancer using a Cuban-made drug,Cimavax-EGF.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center out of Buffalo New York, is partnering with Cuba’s Havana’s Centre for Molecular Immunology (CIM) through an innovative lung cancer immunotherapy —CIMAvax-EGF— in a groundbreaking international collaboration with an immunotherapy developed in Cuba to treat lung cancer.
The severe and devastating consequences of the coronavirus pandemic were undoubtedly made worse by a substantial lack of pandemic preparedness, with the exception of East and South East Asia, which had built up defences after their experience with SARS in 2003. So it is crucial that governments begin to develop strategies to protect us if other deadly viruses emerge.
