The boss of the World Health Organization urged Beijing to provide more information on the origins of the COVID-19 and is willing to send a second team to investigate the matter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. “We are putting pressure on China “to give full access to information and we ask the countries to […]
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Edward Raymundo: “Reactiva did not reach even 1% of Gamarra merchants”
Gamarra’s entrepreneurs are facing a difficult time due to the reduction in their sales and the ravages of the crisis caused by COVID-19. The president of Fedegama, Edward Raymundo, analyzes the situation and points out that very few businesses accessed the Reactiva credit program. -What is the current situation of Gamarra? -After the pandemic, we […]
Short-term expectations remain pessimistic
In August, most business expectations indicators continued to recover compared to the results of the previous month, but without dissipating pessimism, according to the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP), since the three-month estimates are still predominantly negative , that is, they are placed below the threshold of 50 points. Businessmen’s expectations regarding the Peruvian […]
The European regulator approves a new anti-covid vaccine adapted from Pfizer
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved on Wednesday an adapted version of the anti-Covid vaccine from Pfizer et BioNTech to combat infection by a widespread subvariant of the virus in winter. Although since the beginning of May the World Health Organization no longer considers Covid-19 a global health emergency, the virus continues to circulate in […]
Debts, trade wars and low productivity: the aftermath of the pandemic
Record levels of public debt, geopolitical tensions that threaten to split the global trading system, and the likely persistence of low productivity growth may saddle the world with a slow-growth future that holds back development in some countries. This vision of a post-pandemic world economy follows from a study organized by the Kansas City Federal […]
North Korea reopens borders for its nationals after closure by Covid
North Korea took a further step towards lifting his strict isolation by the covid-19by allowing its nationals abroad to return to the country, the state press reported on Sunday. The state agency KCNA published that the State Emergency Prevention Headquarters determined that “citizens abroad have been allowed to return home.” “Those who return will be […]
Why did some people get covid without showing symptoms? The reasons behind
throughout the covid-19 pandemic some people were infected but did not show symptoms. A new study published in Nature shows that a genetic variation common would be responsible for the asymptomatic infection by SARS-Cov-2. The research coordinated by the University of North Carolina (USA) focused on a group of genes called human leukocyte antigens (HLA), […]
Metformin Treatment Reduces Rates of Long-Term COVID, Study Finds
A new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases supported by the Parsemus Foundation found a 41% reduction in long-term rates of covid among people who used metformin at the time of COVID infection. The trial also saw a 42% reduction in emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or death among COVID-19 patients who started metformin treatment. […]
WHO will create a global health passport inspired by the European model
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that it will adopt the digital certificate system used by the European Union (EU) during COVID-19, to deal with future pandemics and similar health threats. The WHO It will be inspired by the EU’s digital COVID certificate to launch a global certification system after the signing of an […]
Is the treaty against pandemics very timid in addressing inequalities?
Negotiations for an international agreement against future pandemics are accelerating, but some participants fear that it will be too timid against the inequalities in access to medicines, which were exposed with the covid-19. That pandemic revealed the failures of the global health system, and the 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) decided […]