Cuba is set to roll out two of five vaccines it hopes will boost its flagging economy and protect its ageing population.

The Olympics must not be a burden on medical systems, Japan's chief government spokesman said on Friday, amid worries that daily athlete testing will tax health resources already stressed in fighting a rebound of COVID-19 cases.

Japan has only used about a fifth of the COVID-19 vaccine doses it has imported so far, government data showed on Wednesday, underscoring logistical hurdles such as a shortage of medical staff, as it grapples with a sluggish inoculation campaign.

UK lawmakers call for PM Johnson to publish big pharma lobbying messages  Reuters India

UK lawmakers call for PM Johnson to publish big pharma lobbying messages  Reuters

Faced with an alarming wave of infections, medical staff have the grim job of deciding life and death for patients.

When the pandemic began last year, Kinga Szlachcic-Wyroba, an anaesthesiologist in the Stefan Zeromski Specialist Hospital in Krakow, Poland, had to manage one COVID-19 patient and 10 others in intensive care with three other doctors.

I took the first photo of my daughter, Rebecca, moments after she was born on August 3, 2005.

Australian authorities should add more clinics to speed up the country's struggling COVID-19 vaccine rollout, its main medical association said on Thursday, dismissing a government plan to create mass inoculation hubs as unworkable in the near term.

Activists call for a week of anti-coup protests over Myanmar's most important holiday.

Some Polish doctors and nurses are just taking naps between shifts as they fight a third wave of the coronavirus, the health minister said on Friday, amid reports of medical staff taking oxygen and intravenous drips to boost their energy.

British companies sharply stepped up hiring and offered higher pay to new staff last month as they grew more confident about economic recovery and prepared for COVID restrictions to ease, a recruiters body said on Thursday.

Scores of Venezuelan healthcare students protested Tuesday in front of Caracas' University Hospital demanding a national vaccination plan and 100% vaccination coverage for doctors and nurses, amid a spike in infections that has led the government to extend lo…

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