Yuri Kageyama and Stephen Wade, AP News - Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the games. They say they’re already near the breaking point dealing with the coronavirus
UN NEWS—A UN staff member in India has described the huge upsurge in COVID-19 infections in her country in recent days as a “tsunami”, and has spoken of the “panic” she felt, as her immediate family became infected with the virus. The number of new infections
UN News - COVID-19 infections have increased for the ninth consecutive week globally while variants continue their spread, the UN health agency has confirmed. Nearly 5.7 million new cases were reported in the last seven-day period, above previous highs, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest coronavirus update published late Tuesday. The number of deaths from the virus also increased – now for the
UN News - Forests are at the core of our efforts to restore our relationship with the natural world, the deputy UN chief said on Monday at the UN Forum on Forests. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said we were at a “make-or-break moment”, adding that woodlands provide
UN NEWS—UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for commitment to restoring the planet, and to making peace with nature, in his message to mark International Mother Earth Day, celebrated annually on 22 April. This year’s observation is taking place as the planet is at “a tipping point”,
UN News - COVID-19 infections are approaching their highest rates since the pandemic began just over a year ago, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday. “Around the world, cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates”, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
UN NEWS—A lack of new treatments for common infections has left people dangerously exposed to the “world’s most dangerous bacteria”, the UN health agency said on Thursday. The alert from the World Health Organization (WHO) is delivered in a report showing that none of the 43 antibiotics in development today sufficiently addresses the growing threat posed by 13 priority drug-resistant bacteria. “The persistent failure to develop, manufacture, and distribute effective new antibiotics is further fuelling the impact
STEPHEN WADE, AP NEWS— Tokyo pitched itself as “a safe pair of hands” when it was awarded the Olympics 7 1/2 years ago. “The certainty was a crucial factor,” Craig Reedie, an IOC vice president at the time, said after the 2013 vote in Buenos Aires. Now, nothing
The Queen has returned to royal duties, just a few days after the death of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, to mark the retirement of the Earl Peel, her household’s most senior official. Queen Elizabeth II held her first in-person ceremony yesterday, in which the Earl
His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Philip, the late husband of Queen Elizabeth II, will be laid to rest on Saturday next week, in a low-key ceremony. In an official announcement, the funeral will take place on Saturday 17 April 2021 at 3:00 pm in St George’s
