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WHO warns of more hantavirus cases in 'limited' outbreakThree passengers died from hantavirus after a cruise. The World Health Organization believes the outbreak will be limited if precautions ar...
Antarctica's tourism boom raises concerns about contamination and diseaseSoaring tourism to Antarctica, driven by climate change fears, raises concerns about contamination and damage to the fragile ecosystem. A r...
Experts review COVID-19 plan amid case surgeFears have emerged that an outbreak is again starting as states including Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra are witn...
Fast-spreading, less mild and evasive? Why Omicron puzzle has kept world on edgeUK has reported over 50% rise in weekly Covid cases while daily infections in South Africa have swelled by 75-times since the start of Nove...
Ahead of India series, CSA postpones domestic matches over COVID fearsSouth Africa is currently enduring their fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which followed the discovery of the Omicron variant last ...
Omicron variant landed in Netherlands before South Africa alerted WHOAuthorities in the eastern German city of Leipzig, meanwhile, said on Tuesday they had confirmed an infection with the omicron variant in a...
As Omicron variant circles the globe, African nations are blamed and bannedBearing a worrying number of mutations that researchers fear could make it spread easily, omicron was spotted Saturday in Britain, Germany ...
New Covid ‘variant of concern’ fuels global fear of another virus surgeJust two days after the world learned of the variant, the World Health Organization officially labeled it a “variant of concern,” its most ...
Market Movers: Fear runs amok on D-Street as buyers go for hidingThe fear was palpable in the deep shade of red that painted trading screens and it was evident in the biggest spike in the India VIX index ...
Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disasterWhen the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions. Although it...
How regionalism has helped Africa manage the COVID-19 pandemicThe fear that Africa would be the epicentre of the pandemic was fuelled by a few factors. One was the presence of overcrowded informal sett...
Mastercard Foundation to spend $1.3 billion to vaccinate Africans against COVID-19The foundation will purchase single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccines at the discounted rate negotiated by the African Union during its 220 m...
Africa not ready for imminent third coronavirus wave, says World Health Organisation"Many African hospitals and clinics are still far from ready to cope with a huge rise in critically ill patients," the World Health Organiz...
India cites global shortage of Covid-19 vaccines as consensus eludes its TRIPS waiver proposalNew Delhi termed developed countries’ argument on the sufficiency of such licensing arrangements for ramping up manufacturing capacities “w...
UN chief: Virus could push millions of Africans into povertyUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the coronavirus threatens Africa's progress and could push millions into extreme poverty....
Coronavirus could erode global fight against other diseasesAs the world focuses on the pandemic, experts fear losing ground in the long fight against other infectious diseases like AIDS, tuberculosi...
Rich countries agree to help poorer nations handle debtFinance ministers of the G-20 group of major economies, which includes the US, China, India and others, said they will immediately put on h...