Pandemic

Asia Taiwanese travelers prepare to take COVID-19 virus antigen tests before leaving Taiwan, at Taoyuan International Airport on Apr 1, 2021. (Photo: AP Images) 01 Apr 2021 03:50PM(Updated: 01 Apr 2021 04:04PM) TAIPEI: Taiwan and the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau launched a coronavirus travel bubble on Thursday (Apr 1) to…

LONDON - Only one person in five in Britain with COVID-19 symptoms has sought or would seek a test, according to a study which found a link between people on low pay and poor adherence to the government's rules. Eighteen percent of participants in the study published in the British…

There's light at the end of the tunnel. It might be the glowing screen bearing your ticket to a pandemic-free life. In the very near future, you may need to flash a digital code just like this one to get on a plane, go to a concert or even sit…

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It is not yet dawn but Yeroor village is long awake, the hum of productivity floating over “Gulf Street”, a lush green boulevard named for the thousands of workers who leave the southern Indian state of Kerala every year for jobs in the Middle East. But now the workers are…

The time it will take for the gender gap to close grew by 36 years in the space of just 12 months, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender Gap Report. The report estimates that it will take an average of 135.6 years for women and men to…

Erin O’Toole believes he’s the first opposition leader in Canadian history to actually want the ruling government to succeed. Erin O’Toole believes he’s the first opposition leader in Canadian history to actually want the ruling government to succeed. "Yes, I’m frustrated," he told a Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce fireside chat…

3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19--in front of a 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. The spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells. On the virus model, the virus surface (blue) is covered with spike proteins (red)…

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With a third wave beginning, there are new challenges with variants expected to hit younger people harder and hospitals already more crowded than during either the first or second waves. Author of the article: Elizabeth Payne Marilyse Dufresne-Cater, seen here on March 3, 2021, is a respiratory therapist at the…