Summer holidays: Testing, quarantine and 'vacci-cations'
Travel journalists explain what some of the issues might be if you are thinking of going abroad.
A lack of power and funding has limited the World Health Organization’s (WHO) capacity to deal with pandemics, the co-chair of a panel looking at the response to the coronavirus pandemic has said. Helen Clark, from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, told BBC World News that the WHO was caught in the…
US President Biden’s agenda will do an enormous amount of good, congressman Ritchie Torres says.
The evacuation flights out of Afghanistan may have largely stopped, but with international funding largely frozen, and a humanitarian crisis escalating, thousands are still desperate to find a way out. The remote town of Zaranj, close to the borders of both Pakistan and Iran, is a major people smuggling hub. Traffickers there told BBC Afghanistan…
Beheshta Arghand, an anchor for Tolo News, made headlines when she interviewed the Taliban just days after they took control of Afghanistan. Two weeks later, she has fled the country amid fears for her life. Arghand spoke to the BBC’s Christian Fraser about the fears she has for her country’s future.
Younger people may be offered alternative vaccines to the AstraZeneca jab, says Prof Paul Hunter.
Pop star and songwriter Ariana Grande is the latest musician to perform a series of concerts inside the hit video game Fortnite. Millions of gamers are expected to watch the virtual gigs, which see Ariana Grande soar through the sky with huge angel wings while surrounded by players inside bubbles. BBC Click’s gaming reporter Marc…