The extraordinary and often painful moments of the coronavirus pandemic are now part of a new interactive online exhibition. Food shortages, social distancing, and struggling hospitals are depicted in the
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Like Covid-19, the developing monkeypox outbreak likely had its origins in wild animals, following the pattern of an estimated 70 per cent of emerging diseases that cross between species. And while disease reservoirs in wild
On Monday 21 December, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended conditional approval for the use of the BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine across the 27-nation EU bloc. The approval of the Amsterdam-based
In a ‘historic moment’, the UK has become the first western country to approve a vaccine for use against COVID-19, paving the way for mass immunisation. On Wednesday 2 December,
This week, the University of Oxford in the UK and global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced the latest results in the global hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine. On 23 November, the
A successful coronavirus vaccine might be available as soon as early next year, but vaccine acceptance rates might pose a challenge. A global survey published on 20 October in Nature
In the first half of 2020, the coronavirus pandemic led to an unprecedented decline in CO2 emissions, larger than during the 2008 financial crisis, the1979 oil crisis, or World War
The cost of preventing future pandemics is a mere modicum of the amount Covid-19 is expected to cost the global economy, according to a new analysis published on 24 July
On Thursday 9 April, the World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledged for the first time that the coronavirus might be airborne with the potential to be transmitted several metres in the
Two-thirds of the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) are unlikely to be achieved due to the COVID-19 pandemic, therefore, “it’s time to rethink sustainable pathways for our planet.” argue Robin