3D-printed coronavirus model is seen in front of displayed South Africa flag in this illustration taken, February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo By Associated Press A new coronavirus variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is a concern because of its high number of mutations and rapid spread among young people in

File – Doctor Petruta Filip, right, and a colleague place an oxygen mask on a man in the COVID-19 section at the University Emergency Hospital in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. In much of Eastern Europe, coronavirus deaths are high and vaccination rates are low, but politicians have hesitated to impose the measures curb

Ambulances outside the Royal London Hospital, in London, Tuesday Dec. 29, 2020. England Health Service figures show hospitals now have more Covid-19 patients than during April’s first-wave peak, with fears of increased figures because of a Christmas social spread. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP) The British government has stopped the recruitment of jobless nurses from Kenya

In the Covid 19 ward, an area of the Operative Intensive Care Unit at Leipzig University Hospital, doctors and nurses care for patients in Leipzig, Germany, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. In the intensive care unit, the number of corona patients with severe courses has been growing for days, including more and more younger patients between

Credit to photo/Pinterest The Guardian By Hannah Summers Undercover reporters for ITV documentary find procedure widely available in London Dozens of clinics, private hospitals and pharmacies are offering controversial hymen repair surgery, an undercover investigation has revealed, as the government moves closer to banning the harmful practice. It has already pledged to outlaw virginity tests

Macmillan said ‘patients are entering a system that was on its knees even before the pandemic’. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Media The Guardian By Andrew Gregory Progress in clearing the NHS cancer treatment backlog in England has gone into reverse amid high Covid cases and staff shortages, analysis suggests. With rising coronavirus hospitalisations also now piling

Prof Mohamed Hussein Abdille displays a herbal medicine called Cr7 at his home in Nakuru Town. By Daily Nation When the Covid-19 crisis hit the country last year, President Uhuru Kenyatta challenged Kenyan scientists, doctors, pharmacists and researchers to come up with an alternative way of dealing with the pandemic. One scientist and researcher who

One in five nursing posts on some wards are now unfilled. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA The Guardian By Jon Ungoed-Thomas Lack of EU staff adding to shortages: ‘There aren’t enough to deliver care we need’ Ministers are being warned of a mounting workforce crisis in England’s hospitals as they struggle to recruit staff for tens of

A person taking an HIV test. By Daily Nation Alarm has been raised over unapproved HIV self-testing kits in the market. There are fears that a number of people could be accessing unapproved and substandard kits in some private health facilities. This presents the possibility of wrong HIV test results, which could compromise the management

Nadhim Zahawi, previously the vaccines minister, said on Thursday he had not yet seen the vaccination data. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA The Guardian By Sally Weale and Nicola Davis Parents raise the alarm as Nadhim Zahawi admits he has no idea how many 12- to 15-year-olds have been vaccinated Ministers have been accused of losing a