The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has launched an innovative regional online schools’ game show aimed at improving the public’s understanding, especially young people and their parents, about COVID-19 and vaccination processes.
The United National Congress' former MP and Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh is calling on the government to lift all COVID-19 emergency declarations.
The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency.
A new study by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has found that extensive disruptions in the diagnosis and management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Americas, including the Caribbean, occurred during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisers Thursday, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year in the Region of the Americas, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, has called on countries to strengthen surveillance and bridge gaps in vaccination coverage to end the emergency and better prepare for future health crises.
On the anniversary of the declaration of COVID-19 as a worldwide pandemic, there are renewed calls for a Commission of Enquiry into the Government's handling of the situation.
Eight more people—four elderly males, three elderly females, and one middle-aged female—have lost their lives to COVID-19, between March 1 and 7, 2023, according to the latest advisory from the Ministry of Health. These latest deaths have pushed up the national death toll for COVID-19 to 4,355 lives lost.
Caroni East MP Rishad Seecharan wants to know why the Health Ministry is seeking to recruit an independent consultant to assess its responses to the COVID-19 pandemic when a committee already submitted a detailed report on the standard of care of COVID-19 patients last year.
China on Tuesday said it has been “open and transparent” in the search for the origins of COVID-19, after questions about how the pandemic began received new attention.
In the highest weekly jump in COVID-19 cases since October 4, 2022, the Ministry of Health reported 559 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday. These new cases were recorded between February 22 and 28. The seven-day rolling average of COVID-19 cases, meaning the number of new COVID-19 cases recorded daily during the seven days, also rose to 80 cases a day, on average, marking a high since October 2022 and the highest for 2023 to date.
Japan is easing its coronavirus border measures for tourists from China beginning Wednesday by testing only random passengers, a top government spokesman said Monday.