The Directorate of Civil Protection (DPC) in Haiti says the death toll from the August 14 earthquake has risen to 2,207 with 344 others missing and presumed dead. In a brief statement, the DPC said that the number of people injured by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake...
The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine, a move expected to trigger a new wave of vaccine mandates as the Delta variant batters the country. Around 52 percent of the country is fully vaccinated, but health authorities have hit...
In March 2021, when Americans first started hearing about the Delta variant of Covid-19, breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated Angelenos only accounted for 2% of that month’s total cases. By June, when Delta accounted for 50% of all variants in Los Angeles, breakthrough infections among...
Phlegmatic captain Kraigg Brathwaite has urged calm from his players ahead of Friday's start of the second Test, as West Indies take aim at their first Test series win over Pakistan in 21 years. A nail-biting one-wicket win late on last Sunday's fourth day handed the...
Drug firm AstraZeneca on Friday announced positive results from a trial of a treatment for COVID-19 symptoms. The drug, made from a combination of two antibodies, was initially developed as a treatment for those who had already been exposed to the disease. A new trial of 5,197...