KINGSCOTE, Australia — The Royal Flying Doctor Service will support the Covid-19 vaccine rollout across Kangaroo Island, so residents don’t have to travel to the South Australian mainland to get the jab. The state government says the Royal Flying Doctor Service will work in partnership with the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network and the Kangaroo Island Council to operate a vaccine program for about three months, starting in early June. Located in Canberra, The Royal Flying Doctor Service assists Australian citizens in a variety of respects. The Royal Flying Doctor Service delivers 24-hour aeromedical emergency services that can reach anywhere, no…
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Accesible y fácil de preparar es la bebida que se obtiene del té verde, una hierba asiática que conquistó a toda América. Es común encontrarla en casi todos los supermercados de América Latina y Estados Unidos. El té verde es tan popular porque tiene efectos positivos en el organismo y porque proporciona una reconfortante sensación, ya sea que se beba frío o caliente. “Tenemos que es un poderoso antioxidante, un estimulante suave. Ayuda en mucho a mejorar el funcionamiento del cerebro. Al mismo tiempo favorece la combustión de las grasas, mejora el rendimiento físico”, dijo Eduardo Meléndez, licenciado en nutrición…
LAHORE, Pakistan — For the first time in nearly three years, Shrimati Devi felt the warmth of her daughter’s embrace. On May 1, her 14-year-old Nena Meghwar came rushing into their Aliabad colony home in Hyderabad city, Pakistan’s Sindh province. Nena was trembling with fear, heavily injured, and begged her mother to hide her from her captives who might find her. Devi was overwhelmed to see the daughter she had reluctantly presumed dead. “I had lost all hopes of finding her,” Devi told Zenger News on May 18. She had just returned from the Sindh High Court’s circuit bench in Hyderabad…
NEW DELHI — “Request for beds 570, I could arrange just 112. Requests for Remdesivir: 1,477; I could arrange just 18. Yes, we have failed. So is our health care system (sic).” The Twitter feed of Bollywood’s reel villain Sonu Sood, who emerged as a real-life hero in India’s prolonged fight against the Covid-19 crisis, is replete with pleas and posts about helping others as the nation battles the second wave of the pandemic. In 2020, Sood helped stranded migrant workers reach home, provided aid to frontline workers, helped skilled and unskilled workers find jobs, and more. Cut to 2021. The actor has…
NEW DELHI — Between April 1 and May 18, Delhi recorded 737,000 Covid-19 cases — more than the total number of cases recorded from the beginning of the pandemic till March 31, 2021. The health machinery was on the verge of a collapse, and social media platforms were filled with SOS messages regarding oxygen cylinders and hospital beds. By May 19, however, the positivity rate fell below 6 percent — its lowest since April 5 — bringing a much-needed respite to the gasping city. “If I talk about the positivity rate from the last 24 hours, it is now below even 2.5…
CHENNAI, India — Social networking company Facebook on May 19 said it restricted access to 878 posts or accounts in India for the second half of the year from July-December 2020, in response to directions from the country’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, known as MeitY. The Indian government made 40,300 requests to Facebook for user data during the July-December 2020 period, a 13 percent increase from 35,600 requests in the January-June 2020 period, the firm said in its latest transparency report. India is Facebook’s largest market, with an estimated 410 million users, as per the Indian government. Its subsidiaries Instagram and…
CHENNAI, India — As the race to attain the numero uno position in Indian e-commerce heats up, Jeff Bezos-owned Amazon, with the launch of miniTV, is expanding into newer avenues to woo customers and increase their brand loyalty. Facing stiff competition from Walmart-owned Flipkart and the latest entrant, JioMart, owned by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, Amazon is eyeing diversification to keep its nose ahead in the race. It launched miniTV — a free, ad-supported video streaming service — within its shopping app in India. In a first for Amazon, the service is only available to the users of the Amazon India app. It…
NAIROBI, Kenya — A court on May 14 quashed an attempt by Kenya President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Amollo Odinga to change the East African country’s constitution. In its ruling, a five-judge bench of the High Court said that Kenyatta acted illegally when he took the steering wheel to drive the Building Bridges Initiative to a United Kenya, the vehicle he was using to seek the constitutional changes. Kenyatta formed the initiative following his surprise March 9, 2018, “handshake” with Odinga on the steps of Harambee House, the President’s office in Nairobi. Odinga was Kenyatta’s primary challenger in…
Austrian hospital officials announced a “tragic mistake” after doctors amputated the wrong leg of an elderly man. Both legs of the 82-year-old man were affected by complications from illnesses he was suffering, but doctors at Freistadt Hospital thought amputating his left leg from mid-thigh was urgent. However, two days after his surgery on May 18, nurses discovered the wrong leg had been amputated while changing his bandages. It was later revealed that surgeons had marked the wrong limb shortly before heading into the operating room. The surgeon who performed the operation has been released from duty at her request, according…
KOLKATA, India — The Zoological Survey of India has discovered a new species of an insectivorous mammal — a white-toothed shrew — on the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago in India. A shrew is a tiny mammal that resembles a mouse. They feed on insects and live on the sub-leaf stratum or ground of the forest. The species ‘Crocidura Narcondamica’, named after the island on which they were discovered, is a first-of-its-kind discovery in India in the last four decades. “This discovery increases the number of white-toothed shrew species in India from 11 to 12,” tweeted the Indian Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change. “The new…