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…
Essay: People in the UK are volunteering less – it’s not surprising and could get worse
In an article first published on The Conversation, KRIS SOUTHBY, a researcher in health promotion at Leeds Beckett University in the UK, looks at the reasons for the shift…
COVID-19 vaccine scheme for poorest has $US2.6 billion left to spend as pandemic recedes
London, UKReuters Several billions of dollars left in a scheme to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s poorest could be diverted to prepare for other pandemics or to support vaccine manufacturing in Africa, the scheme’s partners said. The COVAX initiative, run by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the World Health Organization, and the Coalition for Epidemic […]
WHO declares end to COVID global health emergency
London, UKReuters The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage the virus that killed more than 6.9 million people along with other infectious diseases. The global health agency’s Emergency Committee met on Thursday and recommended the […]
WHO chief hopes COVID will no longer be emergency next year
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday he is “hopeful” that the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer be considered a global emergency some time next year. His comments at a briefing with media come as China dismantles its rigid “zero-COVID” policy and allows people to live with the virus, […]
After COVID: Inside the super-secure Swiss lab trying to stop the next pandemic
JENNIFER RIGBY, of Reuters, reports on the work of the Spiez Laboratory in Switzerland…
World in no better place to fight pandemics than before COVID – review
London, UK Reuters The world is no better prepared for a new pandemic than it was when coronavirus emerged in 2019 and may actually be in a worse place given the economic toll, according to a panel set up by the World Health Organization to evaluate the global response. A lack of progress on reforms […]
Bolivian boy turns photographer on iconic salt flats – with help from a dinosaur
Salar de Uynui, Bolivia Reuters On the otherworldly white salt flats of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, an 11-year-old boy has become a photography success taking quirky and creative pictures of tourists – with a little help from a blue plastic dinosaur toy. Piter Condori makes use of an unusual trick of perspective on the iconic salt flats, […]
Essay: Can churches be protectors of public health?
US scholar of Christianity ANDREW GARDNER – in an article first published on The Conversation – looks at how churches have navigated past health crises and how that might help us better understand the present…
Some nations look to shorten isolation rules as Omicron races around the world
Rome, Italy/Washington DC, USReuters Global COVID-19 infections hit a record high over the past seven-day period, Reuters data showed on Wednesday, as the Omicron variant raced out of control and governments wrestled with how to contain its spread without paralysing fragile economies. Almost 900,000 cases were detected on average each day around the world between […]