WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it is ‘crucial’ to know how the coronavirus pandemic started. he World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the COVID-19 pandemic started, the agency’s chief has said following a report...
Companies from luxury goods makers to fast-food restaurants have taken a hit due to Beijing’s ‘zero COVID’ policies. When Tesla’s Shanghai plant and other auto factories were shut over the last two months by emergency measures to control China’s biggest COVID-19...
Asian economies are tightening borders and in-country restrictions despite evidence of variant’s milder impact. By John Power Omicron is exposing an East-West divide between governments determined to halt the spread of the variant and those that see its spread as...
Asia-Pacific countries’ rush to slam borders shut over the new variant raises questions about the end goal. By John Power The rush by Asia-Pacific countries to slam borders shut in response to the Omicron variant raises a sobering question: What if harsh restrictions...
WHO chief says many vaccinated people wrongly think they no longer need to take other precautions against COVID. The chief of the World Health Organization has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over and that some people were falling into a “false sense of...
UNICEF hails mass drive as ‘arguably the fastest vaccination campaign to be executed during a pandemic’. The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has fully vaccinated 90 percent of its eligible adult population within just seven days, after receiving vaccines via foreign...