Covid-19: Chile lowers vaccination age for children down to the age of 3

SANTIAGO, Nov 27 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chilean health authorities have allowed children from the age of 3 onwards to be vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Chinese-developed Sinovac drugs, the one most widely used on adults in the country, it was announced Thursday. Before Thursday, immunization had been cleared by The Government’s…

Covid-19: Kenya receives 834,130 doses of Pfizer from US Govt

NAIROBI, Nov 27 (NNN-KBC) — Kenya has received a donation of 834,130 doses of Pfizer vaccines from the US government. The vaccines arrived Friday evening were received by Ministry of Health officials led the Port Health Officer in charge at JKIA Benjamin Murkomen. US officials were led by the head…

Top US diplomat for Asia to visit four ASEAN countries

WASHINGTON, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The top US diplomat for East Asia will visit Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand from the weekend after President Joe Biden pledged stepped up engagement with Southeast Asia, a key battleground in his contest for influence with China. Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for…

19 killed in Mexico bus crash

MEXICO CITY, Nov 27 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least 19 people were killed and around 25 others injured on Friday after their bus crashed into a house in central Mexico due to a brake malfunction, a local official said. The brakes on the bus, which was running on a highway and…

Colombia charges former FARC rebels with destruction of Amazon

A parked car is seen on an illegal road in a deforested area of the Yari plains, in Caqueta, Colombia BOGOTA, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Colombia has charged the leader of a breakaway faction of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group with deforesting vast portions of…

Brazil health regulator calls for Africa travel restrictions, Bolsonaro dismissive

BRASILIA, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian health regulator Anvisa recommended on Friday that travel be restricted from some African countries due to the detection of a new COVID-19 variant, but President Jair Bolsonaro appeared to dismiss such measures. Anvisa said its recommendation, which would need government approval to be implemented,…

Covid-19: WHO says new variant is of ‘concern’, names it Omicron

WASHINGTON, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The discovery of a new coronavirus variant triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa and stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic suffered their biggest falls in more than a year. The United States will restrict travel…

‘We need to work’: Hundreds of migrants form new US-bound caravan in Mexico

TAPACHULA (Mexico), Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of Central American and Haitian migrants formed a new caravan on Friday in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, near the Guatemala border, and began walking north toward the United States. The migrants said they wanted to leave Chiapas as they had not…

Covid-19: WTO postpones major meeting after new variant outbreak

GENEVA, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Trade Organization (WTO) became the first major diplomatic casualty of the new coronavirus variant on Friday when it postponed its first ministerial meeting in four years due to the deteriorating health situation. Ministers from WTO members were due to have gathered next week for a…

Kabul To Resume Taliban-U.S. Talks In Doha

KABUL, Nov 27 (NNN-ANA) – Spokesman for the Taliban-led administration, Zabihullah Mujahid said, talks between Taliban and the U.S. would resume in Qatar’s capital, Doha. “The officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan would resume talks and continue the talks with U.S. representatives, in line with the Doha agreement, and…
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