Avainsana: COVID-19

A recycling plant in Tanzania’s port city of Dar es Salaam has traded paper for plastic bottles and started making anti-coronavirus face shields that are…

The UN Secretary-General has expressed hope that the COVID-19 crisis will lead to a rethinking of how the world supports refugees, migrants and internally displaced…

On 27 December last year, a 43-year-old man from Bobigny, a suburb of Paris, turned up at a French hospital with a dry cough, fever…

The effects of coronavirus have been so extraordinary that even Space has not been immune. Politicians in Europe warn that the economic impact on the…

The fight against COVID-19 has severely disrupted services to prevent and treat cancer, diabetes, hypertension and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which kill more than 40…

Red Cross volunteers to further assist with temperature screenings at the premises of 26 UN agencies operating in Italy. On behalf of the 26 UN…

EU and Japan leaders at a video conference Tuesday signalled close coordination in responding to the coronavirus pandemic, stressing the importance of global solidarity, cooperation…

EU and Japan leaders at a video conference Tuesday signalled close coordination in responding to the coronavirus pandemic, stressing the importance of global solidarity, cooperation…

More than 40 million healthcare professionals from around the world have urged global leaders to build a healthy, climate-friendly economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis,…

Immunity to reinfection from human coronaviruses may last only last six months, according to a study from the University of Amsterdam. It casts doubt over…

With cat photos and sometimes scathing irony, Mathieu Rebeaud, a Swiss-based researcher in biochemistry, has nearly tripled his Twitter following since the coronavirus pandemic began….

South America has become a new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic with Brazil hardest-hit, while cases are rising in some African countries that so far…

A popular beach town near Lisbon plans to be the first in Portugal to test all of its 200,000 residents for coronavirus antibodies to try…

With “unprecedented solidarity”, the World Health Assembly adopted a “landmark resolution” on Tuesday, which sets out a “clear roadmap” of the actions needed to sustain…

Leading non-governmental organisations on Tuesday blasted the UN Security Council’s ”shameful” inaction towards the Covid-19 crisis, especially over a call for truces in some conflict…

The New Zealand Government is contributing $7 million to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people who are at severe risk of COVID-19. The…

Moderna Inc’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, the first to be tested in the United States, produced protective antibodies in a small group of healthy volunteers, according…

Xylem Watermark, the corporate citizenship program of global water technology company Xylem Inc. (NYSE:XYL), recently announced support for UNICEF’s COVID-19 relief efforts. The partnership will…

Much of the world is looking ahead to when a vaccine will be available to protect against coronavirus as without one it’s unlikely that countries…

Aid workers in Bangladesh raced to stop the coronavirus spreading through the world’s largest refugee settlement on Friday, installing isolation treatment centres and hand washing…