HONG KONG (Reuters) -The latest wave of COVID-19 infections has "overwhelmed" Hong Kong, the city's leader said on Monday as daily cases surged by some 20 times over the past two weeks, leaving hospitals short of beds and struggling to cope. Carrie Lam, the head of...
Health authorities in St. Kitts and Nevis expressed hopes on Wednesday (February 09, 2022) that the impact of the deadly COVID-19 virus will be significantly decreased later this year, moving from a pandemic phase to an endemic. At the National Emergency Operations Centre COVID-19 briefing, Dr....
Congress on Thursday gave final approval to legislation guaranteeing that people who experience sexual harassment at work can seek recourse in the courts, a milestone for the #MeToo movement that prompted a national reckoning on the way sexual misconduct claims are handled. The measure, which is...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has put the country on notice that the measures imposed under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus will come to an end within weeks. “The DRMA has reached its limit, the country has reached...
AHMEDABAD, India (AFP)— Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant hit half-centuries to guide India to 265 all out against the West Indies as the hosts aimed for a clean sweep in the three-match ODI series on Friday. Iyer (80) and Pant (56) steadied the ship to put...