The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic will transition into endemic phase with perpetual risk of severe disease and high mortality in vulnerable people - the elderly and those with co-morbidities, unless eradicated. Although several vaccines are already available to rich countries, low-...
3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19—in front of a 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. The spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells. On the virus model, the virus surface (blue) is covered with spike ...
Last year, around 120 million people fell into poverty as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on economies and societies. 去年,由于COVID-19大流行疫情对各经济体和社会造成了严重破坏,大约1.20亿人陷入贫困。 A lopsided recover...
Amid a growing COVID-19 pandemic, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, or GPEI, recommended that polio vaccination campaigns be postponed until the second half of the year and that countries responding to outbreaks of polio suspend those e...
Do We Have to Adapt to a Life with COVID-19 as a Permanent 'Guest'? Can the ongoing global vaccination and public health measures lead to successful containment of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and eradication of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)?
Together with UN agencies in China, the Chinese government has convened sessions of the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. With the COVID-19 pandemic still spreading around the world, and poverty, hunger, and di...
'God protects us from death through faith and science': a qualitative study on the role of faith leaders in combating the COVID-19 pandemic and in building COVID-19 vaccine trust in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2024, BMJ Open Low Immunization Completion among Under-Five Children: Are Underserved Nom...
lectins (MBL) have potent efficacies like anti-infectivity, complement cascade induction, immunoadjuvants, DC-SIGN antagonists, or glycomimetic approach, which can prove useful in the strategy of COVID-19 combat along with the glycobiological aspects of SARS-CoV-2 infections and antiviral immunity....
However, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the OECD has already encouraged China to introduce a stronger social safety net to extend the coverage of unemployment insurance to all workers, and to ensure the “portability” of pension benefits—that is to ensure that pensions acquired ...
Adapting the Irish bTB eradication programme during the Covid19 pandemic The introduction in March 2020 of societal restrictions to protect public health in relation to Covid19 in Ireland necessitated a rapid consideration of how the Irish bTB eradication programme could be adapted such that the publ...