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 […]
Fire hazard: Children struggle to breathe as smoke chokes Amazon city
Porto Velho, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation When Maria Augusta Almeida, 45, heard her grandson cough incessantly, she knew what was to blame: the fires raging in the Amazon forest, some of them more than 322 kilometres away from Porto Velho. The smoke permeating the city, the capital of Brazil’s north-western state of Rondonia, is leading concerned […]