Health
By Nattakarn Jeamrugeekul and Hataiphan Tungkananukulchai Bangkok, Apr 1 (EFE).- Six months after all remaining Covid-19 restrictions were lifted in Thailand – known by its tourist bureau as the «Land of Smiles» – many residents are still choosing to wear face masks. Thais give various social, health and employment reasons...
Tokyo, Mar 9 (EFE).- The World Health Organization (WHO) has sacked the Japanese head of its Western Pacific office after allegations of misconduct, racist and abusive behavior. “In line with the organization’s policy of zero tolerance for abusive conduct, the allegations were investigated,” a statement from the Geneva-based United Nations...
Tehran, Mar 7 (EFE).- Suspects were arrested in connection with the wave of poisonings at girls’ schools in Iran, the interior ministry said Tuesday, as protests over the alleged attacks took place across several cities. Deputy interior minister Majid Mirahmadi said the first arrests were made in five provinces but...
Tehran, Mar 5 (EFE).- Hundreds of Iranian girls from several schools have fallen sick in a new wave of poisonings across the Islamic republic, local media reported on Sunday. Some 29 of the 450 girls living in a female students’ residence in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia were hospitalized...
Washington, Mar 1 (EFE).- The United States government has seen nothing to indicate that the Havana Syndrome, the name given to a cluster of health issues experienced by American diplomats at home and abroad, resulted from the actions of a foreign adversary, the National Intelligence Council said in a report...
New York, Mar 1 (EFE).- The director of the FBI Christopher Wray said the bureau believes that the Covid-19 pandemic “most likely” originated from a laboratory leak in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Wray’s claim fuels a divide in the United States intelligence community over the origins of the coronavirus,...
