New Zealand’s government said Thursday it will hand out an extra few hundred dollars to more than 2 million lower-income adults to help them navigate what it describes as “the peak of the global inflation storm.”The payments are part of a package of ne…
Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly adopted the panel’s recommendation, opening a third COVID-19 shot to healthy …
Floods – Humanitarian Situation in numbers, 15 May 2022242 Cholera cases with 10 deathsMore than 995,000 people affected by floods including 130,000 under-five children need humanitarian assistance85,888 cases of Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemi…
Experts say North Korea is likely to dismiss almost all international anti-virus help, at least for now, despite its first acknowledged outbreak of suspected COVID-19 cases surging across the country.The country is scrambling to deal with rapidly risin…
COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infe…
U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds, hoping an extra vaccine dose will enhance their protection as infections once again creep upward.Everyone 12 and older already was supposed to get one booster…