Laboratory accidents “happen” and are “common”, the head of the World Health Organisation has said as he called on China to be more transparent about the origins of COVID-19.
Deaths due to drug overdoses in the United States increased nearly 30% during 2020, a spike largely attributed to the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with an increasingly deadly drug supply.
A former Muslim who embraced faith in Christ has been ordered to begin a ten-month prison sentence for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic,” Worthy News learned Wednesday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is developing a digital wallet that could be used as international certification of COVID-19 vaccination in a similar way to the yellow fever vaccination card that has been used for many years, the WHO panel of doctors said at a July 12 virtual press conference.
Residents of New Jersey will be able to access their COVID-19 vaccination data through a mobile Docket app, although Gov. Phil Murphy says the app is not intended to be a vaccine passport, Just the News reports. The app has been approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dozens of people have died after a fire erupted in the coronavirus isolation ward at an Iraqi hospital, the second such deadly inferno at a COVID -19 unit in Iraq in three months, officials said.
Christian leaders are among those detained in Cuba amid “unprecedented” protests against the island’s Communist rulers, investigators told Worthy News.
The Food and Drug Administration announced a new warning Monday for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson, saying that the shot has been linked to a serious but rare neurological disorder developed in some who took the vaccine.
White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested a third shot for recipients of Pfizer’s two-dose COVID-19 vaccine would be “entirely conceivable, maybe likely.”
Christian leaders are reported to be among people being detained in Cuba amid rare nationwide protests about the country’s lack of freedoms and worsening economic situation, Christian Solidarity Worldwide reports. Responding to the demonstrations, Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel has called for “revolutionaries” to fight against the protestors in order to defend the ‘Revolution.’
A multi-agency United Nations report published Monday asserts that a sharp increase in world hunger and malnutrition last year was equivalent to that of the previous five years combined, Reuters reports. According to the UN report, the likely cause of the increase is the COVID-19 pandemic.
Following in the steps of African countries Malawi and DRC Congo in rejecting batches of COVID-19 vaccine doses, Zimbabwe has refused an African Union donation of three million Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses, NewZimbabwe reported on July 5.
Pfizer is about to seek U.S. authorization for a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, saying Thursday that another shot within 12 months could dramatically boost immunity and maybe help ward off the latest worrisome coronavirus mutant.
The Army has directed commands to prepare to administer mandatory COVID-19 vaccines as early as Sept. 1, pending full Food and Drug Administration licensure, Army Times has learned.
Israel’s Health Ministry released data on Monday showing that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine appears to largely prevent hospitalization and serious cases, but is significantly less effective against preventing the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday that most of the COVID-19 lockdown measures affecting England will be removed on July 19.
Christians in impoverished parts of Indonesia appeal for food and essential hospital equipment as the second wave of COVID-19 engulfs the world’s largest Muslim nation, aid workers say.
The economy rebounded and added 850,000 new jobs in June, a welcome result after two months of disappointing growth.
The European Union has formally launched its digital COVID-19 certificate, designed to make travel safe and easy for the fully vaccinated within its member nations — but at least one airline says the app has run into issues on its first day of use.
Russia’s capital is imposing new restrictions amid the surge of new coronavirus infections. The measures in Moscow come as elsewhere in Eastern Europe and the Balkans countries race to vaccinate their populations.