FRANCE 24's Health Editor Julia Sieger tells us why #virus #variants are not always more contagious or more deadly, and are actually more #common than we think.
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#Britain is facing a long, bleak winter as cold, wet weather and a more contagious #variant of the coronavirus put unprecedented strain on the nation's #hospitals and force record
The Secretary General of South Africa's ruling ANC party, Ace Magashule, has been charged with multiple counts of fraud, money laundering and corruption. He is accused of embezzlin
Desde mediados de 2020, la mayoría de los productos lácteos y cárnicos costarricenses no puede ingresar a Panamá, que alega que su contraparte no cumple con las medidas sanitarias.
What now for Myanmar? Where it is back to power for the junta that never quite went away when it handed over to civilian rule five years ago. And back to jail or house arrest for
Depuis l'arrivée début avril sur la côte ouest de Madagascar du variant sud-africain, près de 13 000 cas et 250 décès ont été enregistrés, selon les chiffres officiels qui seraient
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Help is on the way. Dateline Coventry, England. A 90-year old pensioner applauded after becoming the first member of the general public to get her Covid vaccine jab and what a feat
Inde, Russie, pays du Golfe... la liste des pays qui ont décidé de suspendre les arrivées de voyageurs en provenance du Royaume-Uni ne cessait de s'allonger, lundi, après la découv
Quelque 20 000 doses de vaccins anti-Covid-19 #Spoutnik V sont arrivées, dimanche 21 février, dans l'enclave palestinienne de #Gaza. Elles seront destinées aux équipes médicales, a
Pas de masque obligatoire, ni épisodes de confinement, ni fermeture des restaurants : en Suède, le gouvernement a parié sur l’autodiscipline des citoyens pour faire face à la pandé
Emmanuel Macron envisage une campagne de vaccination pour le grand public "entre avril et juin" contre le Covid-19, après une première vague réservée aux publics les plus fragiles.
Sans concertation entre les équipes #Trump et #Biden avant l'arrivée au pouvoir de la nouvelle administration américaine le 20 janvier 2021, "il se peut que davantage de personnes
This week, we're looking at the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus in France. As many as one million people could be plunged into poverty by the pandemic. Charities have al
Con 2 millones de personas inoculadas en menos de 10 días, Chile se sitúa como líder de la vacunación en América Latina y se encuentra entre los 10 países del mundo con mejor desem
A team of experts from the World Health Organization arrived in #Wuhan Thursday to probe the origins of the #coronavirus more than a year after it emerged, although two members wer
In #Italy, more than 100,000 people working in the north have returned to their native villages in the south because of the #Covid-19 pandemic. They are continuing to work for thei
As the French government rolls out its Covid-19 vaccination campaign, we’re putting the focus on the country's response. While many pandemic-weary nations view this fast-tracked me
In the race to create a #Covid-19 #vaccine, two French hopefuls have slipped from frontrunners to laggards. The Pasteur Institute's decision to stop developing its most promising v
The year 2020 may have ended with Christmas effectively cancelled in Britain, but the country broke ground in offering its population a shot in the arm. Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-
The year 2020 may have ended with Christmas effectively cancelled in Britain, but the country broke ground in offering its population a shot in the arm. Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-
A finales de 2019, la aparición de casos de neumonía desconocida en Wuhan, una ciudad de 11.000.000 de habitantes ubicada en el centro de China, empezó a generar preocupación entre
El planeta comienza un nuevo año con 83,5 millones de contagios acumulados y 1,8 millones de muertes por el Covid-19. Aunque la pandemia aún no cesa y los casos aumentan, el inicio
The death rate increases in Italy, on Thursday the italian authorities counted 623 covid related death in the last 24 hours. It's the deadliest day in the last 6 months.
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Prime Minister Jean Castex told a press briefing Thursday that France’s border with the UK will remain shut and efforts would be made to expand and fast-track vaccinations as he wa
Can we prevent #lockdowns by instead taking better care of at-risk and elderly people? Most governments have rejected the idea, but the south-western German city of Tübingen has ma
Germany partially closed its borders with the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol on Sunday over a troubling surge in coronavirus mutations, drawing a swift rebuke from the European
Germany will close most shops from Wednesday until Jan. 10 as it tightens coronavirus restrictions and tries to rein in the spread of the disease, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on