Negotiations for an international agreement against future pandemics are accelerating but some participants fear that it is not very ambitious to fight the inequalities in access to medicines, revealed by 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 to […]
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First case of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB.116 sublineage reported in Ecuador
The Ministry of Public Health reported this Sunday about the first case of the new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB.116 sublineage reported in Ecuador and assured that it maintains active epidemiological surveillance by the covid-19. In a statement, he pointed out that the reference laboratory of the National Institute for Public Health Research (INSPI) reported […]
Food insecurity hits northern regions hardest
The food insecurity during 2022 it affected about 258 million people in 58 countries around the world. The figure is almost 38% more than that registered in the previous year when it reached around 192 million people, according to the latest Global Report on Food Crises 2023 (GRFC) prepared by the World Bank. This number […]
The WHO begins its annual assembly trying to consolidate the lessons left by the pandemic
World Health Organization (WHO) inaugurated today its annual assembly, which commemorates 75 years of existence and important progress in public health, and during which it will seek that the States guarantee more stable financing to carry out its work and that they support a new international treaty so that the world better cope with future […]
WHO launches new global detection network for infectious diseases such as COVID-19
World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday launched an international surveillance network to rapidly detect threats posed by emerging infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and share information to prevent pandemics. The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) will provide a platform to connect countries and regions, improving sample collection and analysis systems, said the WHO. The network […]
The US says goodbye to the mirage of free healthcare brought by the pandemic
It was not a political party or a social movement, but a virus that led to a pandemic, which made people feel USA closer than ever to the utopia of free universal healthcare. A dream that ends this Friday with his first day without a health emergency. Although the different social and health programs brought […]
WHO ends more than 3 years of health emergency by COVID-19
World Health Organization (WHO) raised today, Friday May 5, the international emergency due to the pandemic of COVID-19which had been declared since January 30, 2020, given the notable reduction in serious cases and deaths globally. The decision was announced by the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after the organization’s emergency committee met […]
President of Mexico, isolated and treated after contracting COVID-19 for the third time
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in isolation and under medical treatment after contracting COVID-19 for the third time, the Secretary of the Interior, Adán López, said on Monday, who denied reports that the president had suffered a heart attack. The 69-year-old president, who suffers from high blood pressure and had a heart attack […]
Peru stands out for its fiscal prudence and management of debt levels, according to the IDB
Officials and researchers from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) affirmed that Peru stands out for its fiscal prudence and management of debt levelsduring the presentation of the report “Dealing with debt, less risk for more growth in Latin America and the Caribbean”, an activity organized by the Universidad del Pacífico. According to the IDB, Peru’s […]
In Japan, 1.5 million people live isolated from society
One and a half million people of working age live isolated from society in Japanand almost 20% attribute their isolation to the pandemicaccording to a study by the Japanese government, the first carried out by the authorities. The phenomenon affects about 2% of people between the ages of 15 and 64, that is, 1.46 million […]