The World Health Organization said Wednesday it will begin testing three drugs currently used to treat other diseases to see if they can be used as treatments for COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. At a news briefing from
A signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding for implementation of three Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) , each with grant assistance from the Government of India of US$50,000, took place on Aug 11, at the premises of the Ministry
JERUSALEM – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has just added Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to its list of places where travel is not recommended because of growing rates of COVID-19. On Monday, for the first
Forecasters with the U.S. National Hurricane Center say a weather system in the southern Caribbean and moving toward Puerto Rico is likely to become a tropical storm. In its latest report, the center said its parent agency, the National
Mayor of Kaysone Phomvihane City, Savannakhet Province, Pasongsin Chaleunsouk issued a notice on Aug 9 placing the city under lockdown from Aug 9-23 following the sharp rise in Covid-19 infections in the province.An assessment jointly conducted by Kays…
The aerospace company Boeing said Monday it could still test launch its Starliner crew capsule this month. The company had canceled a scheduled launch of the craft last week. Boeing issued a statement Monday saying it was working on the
A student organization is trying to combat misinformation about COVID-19 and pandemic on American campuses through social media. COVID Campus Coalition’s mission is to dispel “misconceptions surrounding COVID vaccines by providing students with weekly digestible scientific summaries through a plethora
BLANTYRE – Malawi has received its first consignment of Johnson & Johnson vaccines – a donation made by the United States under COVAX, a campaign to provide equitable access to COVID-19 shots worldwide. The arrival of 302,000 doses comes a
