Luo Zhehan, a primary school student in China’s Jiangsu province, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia after being vaccinated with a domestically produced COVID-19 vaccine and passed away a month afterwards. But his family rather faced significant challenges in seeking justice, recounting threats of imprisonment from the government during their pursuit.
American Red Cross has declared a severe shortage.Bad weather, seasonal illnesses, and COVID-19 have contributed to a 40% decrease in the country’s donor pool.Angelina Bagdasaryan visited a blood donation station in Los Angeles and talked with some of the donors.
In India, meager farming earnings have driven a large number of rural people to the city in recent decades. However, many are starting alternative farming ventures as they try to rebuild their lives in the countryside after the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a wave of reverse migration from cities to villages.
Uyghurs marked the one-year anniversary of a deadly fire in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi with vigils over the weekend, demanding accountability for the tragedy that they say killed as many as 44 people, four times higher than the official death toll of 10.
Despite the fact that China fully opened its doors to foreign visitors in March, the number of tourists there is still just a small fraction of what it was before to the coronavirus pandemic. Reporting from London, Henry Ridgwell on why vacationers are reluctant to return.
VOA’s Islamabad correspondent Ayesha Tanzeem grapples with the work from home restrictions and the competing guilt of either not reporting on the human suffering around her, or putting the health of her crew at risk
Scientists say COVID-19 likely originated through ‘animal to human’ transmission at a wild animal market in Wuhan, China. New studies by the Global Virome Project, a worldwide effort to increase preparedness for pandemics, indicate the world can expect about five new animal-borne pathogens to infect humans each year, creating a sense of urgency to curb the wild animal tradeable Life