Air France received a 5-star Covid-19 Airline Safety Rating from Skytrax, the international air transport rating agency.
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As part of the European Union's efforts to support vaccination in partner countries, the Commission today increased from €40 million to €75 million its assistance package to deploy safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines and speed up the vaccination campaigns in the six Eastern Partnership countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
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Over the past year, job losses from the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated housing insecurity among low-income renters. As of January 2021, nearly one in four of the nation’s 43 million renter households reported having missed at least one rent payment during the pandemic.
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Hungary’s growing list of European Union worries includes controversial LGBT legislation and potentially hacking the phones of journalists, rights activists and political opponents.
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Given the rise in COVID cases in Maryland associated with the delta variant, Johns Hopkins University is reinstating its mandate that all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors, effective Thursday, Aug. 5.
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Ukraine bowed to Chinese pressure to take its name off an international statement about human rights abuses in China’s western Xinjiang region after Beijing threatened to limit trade and withhold access to COVID-19 vaccines, my colleague Yevhen Solonyna from RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service and I reported.
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Calling it a major milestone, U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that the country has shipped more than 110 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to 65 nations that are among the hardest hit in the world.
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Some neighbourhoods saw more than twice as many residents die than would have been expected for the time of year during the spring and summer of 2020, while excess deaths were spread out over a longer period in the following autumn and winter. Our interactive chart and map let you see what happened where you
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CDC is committed to COVID-19 vaccine equity, which is when everyone has fair and just access to COVID-19 vaccination.
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Tara Kirk Sell, once one of the world's top swimmers and an Olympic silver medalist, now wages a battle against both COVID-19 spread and the misinformation surrounding the virus
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