Now is the best time to salute all the doctors, midwives and nurses who have worked selflessly at the forefront to combat COVID-19. Indeed, this is the day that the whole world should celebrate the work of the health workers.
Health officials in Brazil have released an advisory regarding the lack of testing devices, masks, hospital beds, and trained health workers across the nation.
The World Health Organization has released a warning saying the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating after cases hit 300,000 four days after it hit its second hundred.
The Mexico City government has declared a pollution alert on Monday, its first in 11 years. Ozone levels in the city reached almost twice the acceptable limit.
The United States is sending clean blood to prevent further spread of Zika virus in Puerto Rico because blood transfusion is seen as a means of transmitting the mosquito-borne virus. Request for funding has also been submitted to Congress.
The current outbreak of the Zika virus across large swaths of South America presents a public health threat of "alarming proportions" and could affect as many as four million people, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Jan. 28.
Amid growing concerns about the mosquito-borne Zika virus and associated birth defects, the government of El Salvador is asking its citizens to avoid pregnancies for the next two years.
