HAMILTON: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday expressed concern about the postponement of a polio vaccination campaign for Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip amid an Israeli onslaught and siege.

“I am very concerned about …

GAZA: United Nations agencies have postponed a polio vaccination campaign for Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip amid a deadly Israeli onslaught and siege on the area.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Gaza’s Health Ministry and U…

BERLIN: German health authorities on Tuesday confirmed the country’s first case of a new, potentially more contagious mpox variant.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said an infection with the new mpox variant, clade 1b, was detected last Friday, and i…