12 March 2021 World Thailand Delays AstraZeneca Vaccine Rollout: Official Several European nations also suspended their programmes over blood clot fears.
12 March 2021 World Denmark, Norway, Iceland Suspend Use Of AstraZeneca Vaccine Denmark, the first to announce it was suspending the jab, stressed that the move was precautionary.
12 March 2021 World ‘I’ve Aged 30 Years’: Long Covid Patients Battle Acute Symptoms A significant number of patients who contract the novel coronavirus mysteriously suffer debilitating symptoms long after others recover.
11 March 2021 World Vaccine Hope, But Enduring Fear One Year After Pandemic Declared The coronavirus has killed more than 2.6 million people and forced unprecedented curbs on movement that eviscerated economies.
11 March 2021 World WHO’s Pandemic Response: From Criticism To Nobel? Most of the criticism has focused on WHO's initial reluctance to declare a global health emergency, and in particular to utter the word "pandemic".
11 March 2021 World Millions Of Women Deprived Of Contraception In Pandemic: UNFPA UNPFA found that a loss of family planning services for around three months had likely led to 1.4 million unintended pregnancies.
11 March 2021 World Texas Reopens ‘100%’ As US Vaccination Drive Gains Pace The Covid-19 infection rate has been plateauing since the last week of February at around 60,000 new cases per day.
10 March 2021 World Brazil Notches New Daily Covid Death Record Brazil is facing a dire situation with intensive care units more than 80 per cent occupied in 25 of Brazil's 27 capital cities.
10 March 2021 World China Pioneers ‘Virus Passports’ As EU Gets Russia Jab Boost As it is only available for Chinese citizens, it is not yet clear how it could work internationally.
10 March 2021 World Red Cross Warns Of Glaring Gap In Vaccine Rollout The Red Cross plans to throw its expertise into the distribution and acceptance of vaccines among some of the hardest-to-reach communities.