JAKAR­TA, In­done­sia (AP) — Biotech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny No­vavax said Mon­day that In­done­sia has giv­en the world’s first emer­gency use au­tho­riza­tion for its COVID-19 vac­cine, which us­es a dif­fer­ent tech­nol­o­gy than cur­rent shots.

Ex­perts are track­ing a new mu­ta­tion of the Delta vari­ant of the coro­n­avirus re­port­ed in dozens of coun­tries…

Trinidad and To­ba­go is among 35 coun­tries whose vac­cine pro­grammes are be­ing recog­nised for trav­el to the UK from Mon­day No­vem­ber 1st.

Some 386 peo­ple have be­come new­ly in­fect­ed with COVID-19, even as an­oth­er 10 peo­ple have lost their lives to the dis­ease.

(PA­HO, Oct 28, 2021) — "It has noth­ing to do with safe­ty risk when the shelf life of a vac­cine is ex­tend­ed," said PA­HO/WHO Coun­try Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Dr Er­i­ca Wheel­er.  Dr Wheel­er, joined by her Wash­ing­ton based col­league, Dr Maria Luz Pom­bo, Ad­vi­sor, vac­cines and biotech­no­log­i­cal prod­ucts at the Med­i­cines and Health Tech­nolo­gies Unit, pro­vid­ed clar­i­ty on ques­tions around the ex­ten­sion of vac­cines' shelf life in their pre­sen­ta­tion at the Min­istry of Health's week­ly press brief­ing on Wednes­day 21st Oc­to­ber.

ILO has adopt­ed a Glob­al Call to Ac­tion for a hu­man-cen­tred COVID-19 re­cov­ery, a roadmap that com­mits coun­tries to en­sur­ing that their eco­nom­ic and so­cial re­cov­ery from the cri­sis is ful­ly in­clu­sive, sus­tain­able and re­silient — ILO Di­rec­tor-Gen­er­al, Guy Ry­der

Three more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 147 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

Five more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 215 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

The par­al­lel health care sys­tem can come crash­ing down if the num­ber of COVID-19 pos­i­tive cas­es in the coun­try con­tin­ues to rise.

(BBC) — The White House has out­lined new rules for for­eign trav­ellers to the US, as flight re­stric­tions lift for the first time since the pan­dem­ic be­gan in 2020.

DAKAR, Sene­gal (AP) — Sene­gal and Rwan­da have signed an agree­ment with Ger­man com­pa­ny BioN­Tech for the con­struc­tion of its first start-to-fin­ish fac­to­ries to make mes­sen­ger RNA vac­cines in Africa.

Per­sons with con­cerns about the safe­ty of COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion will have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to have their ques­tions an­swered and fears al­layed by med­ical pro­fes­sion­als, with the avail­abil­i­ty of The Vac­cine Hes­i­tan­cy Hot­line—a joint project of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Non-Com­mu­ni­ca­ble Dis­ease Al­liance (TTNC­DA) and Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO).