By NG Seruela
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte announced on Monday evening (May 31) that the Philippines will donate $1 million to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVAX facility, following the latter’s solicitation...
KAMPALA - Uganda is seeing a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases, forcing its health officials to take stern emergency measures. From 200 cases per day in April, the East African country is now recording over 1,000 cases per day amid a looming vaccine shortage.
By Lisa Schlein/VOA News
GENEVA - The U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling for urgent action to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in South Asia who are missing...
By VOA News
Australia’s southern state of Victoria will enter into a one-week “circuit breaker” lockdown beginning Thursday (May 27) as it deals with a new and growing outbreak of COVID-19 cases.
The...
PARIS - The European Union (EU) pledged to deliver at least 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to low- and middle-income countries by year's end, and develop vaccine production capacity in poorer nations, as it wrapped up a two-day summit in Brussels.