AP Story - US health officials believe the coronavirus mutation that set off alarms in parts of Britain is no more apt to cause serious illness or be resistant to vaccines than the strain afflicting people in the United States but it still must be
Press Release - As the Caribbean prepares for the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine, communications and health promotion specialists from across the Region came together to hone their risk communication skills so that they can effectively respond to people’s concerns, opinions, emotions and reactions. This, as
PAHO News - On 14 December 2020, authorities of the United Kingdom (UK) reported that a SARS-CoV-2 variant has been identified through viral genomic sequencing in 1,108 individuals as of 13 December 2020. Given the identified variant strain can be dated back to September 2020 in
UN News - The UN health agency chief said that scientists have been working to understand new COVID-19 variants that have been reported in South Africa and the United Kingdom. According to news reports, more than 40 countries have now banned arrivals from the UK, because
Thirteen (13) new positive cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in Grenada in the last 36 hours, increasing the total active cases to fifty-four (54). In a release by Grenada GIS, the Ministry of Health said that all infected individuals are in quarantine in state facilities,
PAHO Release - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) urged support for a proposal by the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) to put front-of-package nutritional warnings on food products, which have been shown to help people make healthier dietary choices. The labelling allows
As top pharmaceutical companies begin releasing COVID-19 vaccines, countries around the world are clamoring to obtain them in substantial numbers as early as possible. The Pzifer vaccine has been approved in the UK, while the United Arab Emirates was the first country to confirm Chinese pharmaceutical
St George’s University (SGU) confirmed last Wednesday that a Grenadian-based contractor who has recently worked on their True Blue campus tested positive for COVID-19. In a release, SGU administration said that the person testing positive is a close contact of one of the individuals in the
UN News - An international coalition aiming to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic needs $28 billion, a bargain price for stopping the damage done by a virus that has run rampant for the past year, a senior UN World Health Organization (WHO) official said. “This is the
Almost no place has been spared — and no one. The virus that first emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, swept across the world in 2020, leaving havoc in its wake. More than any event in memory, the pandemic has been a global event. On
