Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Europe's virus death toll passes 800,000

More than 800,00 people have died from the coronavirus across Europe since the pandemic began in December 2019, according to an AFP tally Saturday based on official sources.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID claims 100,000 lives in Mideast

A total of 100,000 people have died in the Middle East after contracting COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic in December 2019, according to an AFP tally at 0800 GMT on Thursday based on official data.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Covid patients asphyxiate as Latin America battles oxygen shortage

As a second, deadly wave of COVID-19 batters Latin America, images have emerged from country after country of desperate people lining up for days to buy oxygen to ease the suffering of infected loved ones fighting for breath.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

EU Covid deaths top 500,000, worst-hit states improving

More than 500,000 people have officially died of COVID-19 in the European Union, according to a tally compiled by AFP as of Wednesday, with the situation appearing to improve in the worst-hit countries.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

South Africa scraps AstraZeneca vaccine, will give J&J jabs

South Africa will give the unapproved Johnson & Johnson vaccine to its front-line health workers beginning next week as a study to see what protection it provides from COVID-19, particularly against the variant dominant there, ...

Vaccination

WHO chief urges 'massive scale-up' in vaccine production

The World Health Organization chief on Friday called on vaccine makers to share technologies to help dramatically boost production, warning that without more access to the jabs, progress against the pandemic could be lost.

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