Health

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses given in Africa has dropped by more than 50% over the last three months, the World Health Organization said Thursday, even though less than a quarter of all Africans have been vaccinated.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A cybercriminal was holding for ransom an Australian health insurer’s customer data including diagnoses and treatments, in the nation’s second major privacy breach in a month, officials said on Thursday.

TORONTO — Seniors living in long-term care across the country were three times more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants over the last five years than those in the community, a new report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information i

CORNVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — Strips of fabric rain like multicolored tickertape from a tree, remnants of a child’s favorite shirt or sock or pillowcase. Little medallions stamped with names of the dead twinkle in the breeze.

HARRISBURG, Pa.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

MISSION, BRITISH COLUMBIA — The Correctional Service of Canada says 97 inmates at a British Columbia prison have tested positive for COVID-19.

ODESSA TOWNSHIP, Mich.

FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — Some parents of children at Jana Elementary School in suburban St.

WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S.