September 23, 2022
(Nature) – After recognizing that Japan was slow to develop vaccines for COVID-19, the government has pledged to invest US$2 billion in a vaccine-research initiative to ensure that the country is ready to respond promptly to future epidemics. The Strategic … Read More
September 23, 2022
(New York Times) – Russian soldiers have raped and tortured children in Ukraine, a United Nations-appointed panel of independent legal experts said in a damning statement on Friday that concluded war crimes had been committed in the conflict. A three-person … Read More
September 23, 2022
(The Guardian) – Doctors at the biggest hospital in Tigray say they have just days supply left of insulin, as the resumption of fighting between rebels and Ethiopian government troops once again cuts off supplies to the region. In what … Read More
September 23, 2022
(Associated Press) – Pakistan has deployed thousands of additional doctors and paramedics in the country’s worst flood-hit province to contain the spread of disease, which has killed at least 300 of the flood victims, officials said Friday. Some of the … Read More
September 22, 2022
(Ars Technica) – “All relevant stakeholders have recognized that the threat of trafficking in human beings is high and imminent,” EU’s human trafficking plan states. Since women and children represent the majority of refugees fleeing, the plan says they are … Read More
September 21, 2022
(WHO) – The health authorities in Uganda today declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the Sudan ebolavirus was confirmed in Mubende district in the central part of the country. The Uganda Virus Research Institute confirmed the case … Read More
September 21, 2022
(New York Times) – After a bus accident killed at least 27 people being transferred to a Covid quarantine facility on Sunday, the Chinese public staged a widespread online protest against the government’s harsh pandemic policy. It was a moment … Read More
September 20, 2022
(NPR) – The Justice Department has unveiled criminal charges against 47 defendants who cheated the government out of $250 million that were supposed to be used to feed needy kids in Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic. The DOJ said indictments … Read More
September 20, 2022
(MedPage Today) – The state of physician wellbeing remained low 2 years into the pandemic, survey data showed. One in three physicians reported feeling hopeless or that they had no purpose, according to the second part of the 2022 Survey … Read More
September 20, 2022
(Wall Street Journal) – A fatal bus crash in southwestern China that killed 27 people being transferred to a quarantine facility has reignited public anger about the toll of strict anti-Covid measures meant to protect the Chinese public. The bus … Read More
