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
AP — Pope Francis made a Christmas Day plea for authorities to make COVID-19 vaccines available to all, insisting that the first in line should be the most vulnerable and needy, regardless of who holds the patents for the shots. “Vaccines for everybody, especially for the
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
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,
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
PAHO News - St. Vincent and the Grenadines recently received a generous donation to continue the mission of safeguarding health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and assist with managing the dengue outbreak. Dr. Rufus W. Ewing, PAHO Advisor, Health Systems and Services, on behalf of
UN News - With so-called vaccine nationalism spreading “with full speed”, the Secretary-General that the continent must be “effectively supported” to fight the pandemic everywhere through COVAX The COVAX international vaccine initiative requires $4.2 billion over the next two months to ensure that “sooner rather than later”, World
The UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) which responds to crises around the world, consistently delivers “principled, coordinated, fast and agile” humanitarian action, the UN chief said appealing for hundreds of millions of dollars for the year ahead. Secretary-General António Guterres told a virtual High-level Pledging Event: “It is
COVID-19 has affected our lives and thousands of people have lost their lives from infection, companies ruined by the economic downturn and many families are trying to figure out what to do. Many lower-income families in impoverished and developing countries do not have access to the
