Scientists see risk of lost opportunity for long COVID research in China
Shanghai, ChinaReuters With more than a full year past since China eased restrictions and let COVID-19 sweep its households, scientists are worried a unique opportunity may be slipping away to study long COVID from possibly hundreds of millions of infections in that country. Global disease experts say little is known about China’s experience with long-term […]
Former UK PM Johnson denies he wanted to let COVID “rip”
London, UKReuters Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Britain’s COVID inquiry on Thursday that any suggestion he wanted to allow the virus to “let rip” was “rubbish” and “completely wrong”. Johnson, Prime Minister between 2019 and 2022, faced a second day of questioning which examined the weeks before the country’s second national lockdown in November, […]
China’s respiratory illness surge not as high as pre-pandemic – WHO official
Shanghai, ChinaReuters The spike in respiratory illnesses that China is currently suffering is not as high as before the COVID-19 pandemic, a World Health Organisation official said, reiterating that no new or unusual pathogens had been found in the recent cases. People wait for their rides outside a children’s hospital in Beijing, China on 27th […]
UK PM Sunak reportedly said “just let people die”, COVID inquiry hears
London, UKReuters Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was quoted as saying the government should “just let people die” during the COVID-19 pandemic rather than impose a second national lockdown, the inquiry into how Britain handled the crisis heard on Monday. Patrick Vallance, who was the government’s chief scientific adviser during COVID, made a note in his […]
Leader of Australia’s Victoria state, known for COVID lockdowns, to step down
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Daniel Andrews, the premier of Australia’s Victoria state who oversaw one of the longest pandemic lockdowns in the world, said on Tuesday he would resign after about nine years in office. Victoria’s State Premier, Daniel Andrews, speaks to the media, on 21st December, 2017. PICTURE: Reuters/Luis Ascui/File Pphoto Andrews’ surprise resignation comes just […]
Australia to hold independent inquiry into handling of COVID pandemic
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia’s centre-left Labor government on Thursday said it would hold an independent inquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic to better prepare for future health crises. Australia closed its international borders and locked down cities among other pandemic restrictions that helped keep infections and deaths far below levels in other comparable developed […]
Global hunger worse today than in 2015, imperiling UN goals – report
Washington DC, USReuters There are 745 million more moderately to severely hungry people in the world today than in 2015, and the world is far off track in its efforts to meet an ambitious United Nations goal to end hunger by 2030, the UN said in a report on Friday. At the halfway point to […]
Essay: The latest US Census figures show the harm done by letting poverty programs expire
DAVID BECKMANN, coordinator of US church and ministry advocacy coalition Circle of Protection, says – in an article first published on Religion News Service – that he success of COVID-era programs followed by an immediate reversal after they ended makes clear that the persistence of poverty is a political choice…
“Why I Left the Church”: Meet the US pastor behind that “quitting the church” essay
A pastor’s last thoughts on leaving the ministry sparked a national conversation about clergy health and the future of the church. BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…
Essay: One year to go – will the Paris 2024 Olympics see a return to normalcy?
Olympic Games scholars ANGELA SCHNEIDER, ALAN C OLDHAM, and RICHARD BAKA, in an article first published on The Conversation, look at what to expect at next year’s Olympic Games…