ShareBy Aluta News June 25, 2021 Adib Khumaidi, Indonesian Medical Association’s head on Friday said at least 949 medical workers in Indonesia died of COVID-19 between March 2020 and June 2021. Khumaidi said of the 949 medical workers, 401 were doctors, 315 nurses, 150 midwives, 15 pharmacists, 43 dentists, andContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 24, 2021 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday said it had approved 43.86 billion shillings (about 407 million U.S. dollars) to Kenya for budget support. The fund, which is the second part of Kenya’s 2.34-billion-dollar, three-year facility, marks the end of the first reviews ofContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 24, 2021 Humanitarian convoys from Turkey that bring lifesaving aid into northwest Syria must continue, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, told the Security Council on Wednesday. More than 1,000 trucks have been transporting food, medicine and other items through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing each month overContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 24, 2021 A total of 184 countries on Wednesday voted in favour of a resolution to demand the end of the U.S. economic blockade on Cuba for the 29th year in a row. In a meeting held on Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York, threeContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 22, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden, on Monday announced plans to allocate 55 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the world, nothing that 10 million doses would be shared to Africa countries. Biden, in a statement from the White House in Washington, DC, said the dosesContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 22, 2021 Nicholas Haysom, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Sudan, says South Sudan is marking its 10th independence anniversary amid languishing political progress and a range of humanitarian challenges. Haysom, Under Secretary General at UN, told Security Council members on Monday that SouthContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 19, 2021 The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has passed a non-binding resolution calling for an end to arms deliveries to violence-ridden Myanmar. The 193-member body voted with a large majority in favour of the resolution, which also condemned the Feb. 1 military coup and called for the release of ousted leaderContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 18, 2021 António Guterres has been re-appointed for a second term as UN Secretary-General and has pledged as his priority, continual help to the world toward charting a course out of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Guterres, whose first five-year term began on Jan. 1, 2017 andContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 18, 2021 A Brussels court on Friday ordered AstraZeneca to deliver an additional 50 million doses of Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines to European Union (EU) member states or face fines. The court ruled that the vaccines should be delivered by September or face a maximum of 500Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 17, 2021 The COVID-19 positive cases in Africa is surging by 20 per cent on a weekly basis, as most countries in the continent enters a third wave. A World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Thursday. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, said theContinue Reading