Tag: COVID
Venezuela trying to purchase COVID vaccines
CARACAS – Venezuelan government officials and opposition leaders have met to discuss buying coronavirus vaccines through the COVAX programme using cash frozen in the...
IMF: COVID-19 puts dent in recovery
Washington – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says while Latin America and Caribbean economies managed to bounce back from COVID-19’s initial economic devastation earlier...
British P.M. self-isolating after COVID contact
LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, a fresh setback after...
China’s economy recovering from COVID
BEIJING – Over the weekend, crowds packed a former industrial warehouse in Beijing as the China Fashion Week got underway, with models strutting mask-less...
PAHO: New rapid antigen tests could transform COVID-19 response in region
Washington – The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) says that a new affordable, reliable antigen diagnostic test that was recently approved by the World...
Ellersie School closed for COVID contact tracing
The Ellerslie School will be closed for the next 14 days after a 15-year-old student there tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday.
The fifth-former is among...