Tag: health care

A group of developing countries, backed by United Nations agencies and activist groups, is pushing to limit patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines being tested by some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies so that inexpensive copies can be produced for poorer nations. South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Pakistan and others ...

The United Arab Emirates has become the first country outside China to approve emergency usage of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine candidate, in a vote of confidence for a state-backed drugmaker racing global rivals to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The U.A.E. is following in the footsteps of the ...

Oliver Hunter de Góes is set to start school Wednesday at Mohawk College in Hamilton — from his parents’ living room in Curitiba, Brazil, some 8,250 kilometres away.The first-year journalism student is among the international students who will be learning remotely from abroad this term, and who will be ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—China will supply coronavirus vaccines to Pakistan as part of an agreement for trials of the vaccine to be conducted in the South Asian nation, according to Pakistani government officials. Pakistan, one of China’s closest allies in the developing world, will receive enough doses early in distribution to ...

Deep in southeast Pakistan, in Sindh province, is Larkana District. Sitting along the historic Indus River, Larkana is known as the “city of holy Alams” — or “holy shrines.” It’s perhaps most famous for housing Mohenjo Daro, an archeological site that dates back to 2500 B.C. and is considered ...