Four out of five pregnancy-related deaths in the United States could be avoided, a new report by the nation's top public health agency says, as mothers in the country face a comparatively high mortality rate, especially among Black women.. "The report paints a much clearer picture of pregnancy-related deaths in this country," said Wanda Barfield, director of the CDC’s reproductive health division.
World powers met Tuesday at the United Nations on how to address rising food insecurity, with dire warnings of a devastating harvest next year due to the war in Ukraine.. "There's one or two harvests per year, and already we're seeing that it's going to be devastating for next year," he told AFP, warning that the impact could be "much worse" than Covid.
Forty-seven people in the northern US state of Minnesota have been charged in connection with a $240 million Covid relief fraud scheme, officials said Tuesday.. "Today's indictments describe an egregious plot to steal public funds meant to care for children in need in what amounts to the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme yet," FBI Director Christopher Wray said.
France became the latest country on Tuesday to authorise new Covid-19 vaccines that have been updated to target Omicron subvariants ahead of autumn booster campaign. . Vaccine makers have been racing to catch up, aiming to provide updated booster shots ahead of an expected new wave of Covid cases in the northern hemisphere's winter.
The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976.. On Tuesday, Uganda announced its first Ebola fatality since 2019 in an outbreak in the central district of Mubende.
For years, Aracely Sanchez went to work without counting her hours, always fearful she could lose her job from one day to the next. . She then spent the next 15 years working in short-term jobs, almost always without a contract, despite the fact she had a valid residency permit.
Uganda's health ministry on Tuesday announced the country's first fatality from the highly contagious Ebola virus since 2019, declaring an outbreak in the central district of Mubende.. In a statement released earlier on Tuesday, the World Health Organization said a 24-year-old man in Mubende had tested positive for "the relatively rare Sudan strain" of the virus.
A thundering thrash metal riff reverberated through a Hong Kong bar, but the music was being live-streamed from a studio across town to obey pandemic rules that have outlawed small gigs for more than 650 days.. "It is a huge, huge factor in the incubation of talent," he said of small venues and live bars.
In a war-scarred Beirut heritage house turned museum, archives of Lebanon's troubled past fuse with artistic depictions of its grim present to portray a country seemingly in perpetual turmoil.. It was renovated and turned into a museum and cultural space that temporarily opened in 2017.
The world's largest rosti -- the traditional Swiss potato fritter -- was fried up in Bern Monday, shattering the previous record, the Swiss farmer's union (USP) said.. In a symbolic effort to overcome this divide, the potatoes cooked Monday were harvested from every region of Switzerland, USP said. vog/nl/raz
