![A decade after the tsunami swamped the Fukushima Daiichi power station triggering the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, many still worry about the effect of radiation on their health and their children [File: Toru Hanai/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-03-04T010702Z_580912254_RC214M9UO6OI_RTRMADP_3_JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-ANNIVERSARY-FILE.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Tens of thousands were evacuated after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. Many still worry about radiation.
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![Dr Rochelle Walensky, President Joe Biden's appointee to run the CDC, removes her mask to speak as Biden announces nominees and appointees to serve on his health and coronavirus response teams during a news conference at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on December 8, 2020 [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-03-08T163617Z_227331655_RC247M9U02ZU_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-WHITEHOUSE.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The new US guidelines open the door to a return to normal, but say masks should still be worn in certain circumstances.
![Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma cast their vote inside a Damascus polling station during a parliamentary election in July [File: Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-03-08T121506Z_1556606776_RC207M9KE9CR_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-SYRIA-ASSAD-1.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The president’s office says the couple are in good health and will continue to work while in isolation at home.
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Dr Khan explains you can still transmit the virus after your first vaccination, so don’t stop obeying the rules.
![A combination picture of healthcare workers at East Lancashire NHS Trust [Hannah McKay/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-03-07T071230Z_1870498737_RC276M9IL4LA_RTRMADP_3_WOMENS-DAY-BRITAIN-NHS.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Women working at a hospital in northern England recount the battles they have faced during the coronavirus pandemic.
![Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, attends a news conference on the COVID-19 outbreak after the return of the team of the WHO-convened global study of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 in Geneva, Switzerland, February 12, 2021 [File: Christopher Black/WHO/Handout/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-12T182413Z_175861015_RC26RL9AKKAZ_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CHINA-PROBE.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
WHO chief says a final and summary report will be issued simultaneously on the monthlong investigation in China.
![A medical worker checks a person's temperature at the Matanda Hospital in Butembo, where the first patient infected with Ebola died, in the North Kivu province of Congo [File: Al-hadji Kudra Maliro/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AP_21042685636097.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
WHO officials said a readiness assessment for Guinea’s neighbours showed gaps in their preparedness for Ebola outbreak.
![The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported that the original drafts of the report had included that number, then more than 9,200 deaths, until Cuomo's aides said it should be taken out [Yuki Iwamura/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21015711699880.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s aides allegedly pushed health officials to alter report on COVID deaths, US media report.
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UN health agency will not publish an interim report on its recent mission to Chinese city of Wuhan, the WSJ reports.
![Faced with shortages of doses during the early stages of the vaccine campaign that started in late December, the EU issued an export control system for COVID-19 vaccines [File: Alessandra Tarantino/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AP_21046616550395.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The move affecting 250,000 doses reflects frustration within the bloc over the shortfall of promised vaccine deliveries.
![Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 150 medical technicians - a group of highly skilled healthcare professionals who typically don’t have the labour protections afforded to nurses and doctors - have been negotiating their first union contract as part of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, and decided to strike Thursday [Courtesy: Sam Potter]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SamPotter.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Today’s strike by medical technicians in Oregon could be the beginning of a labour organising trend amid the pandemic.
![Indonesia is using the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for its mass vaccination programme but says it will allow private companies to secure their own vaccine supplies [Dedi Sinuhaji/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/h_56732930.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Health experts question plan to allow private companies to import vaccines to ‘speed up’ effort to reach herd immunity.
People in France and Germany shun Oxford-AstraZeneca shots in favour of the offering developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
![An estimated 70 percent of the health workforce has left the country, leaving just one Syrian doctor for every 10,000 civilians, the report found [File: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/11926fef9b5a4a0c8bbe7b6d40020f25_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
International Rescue Committee report shows the devastating impact a decade of war has had on healthcare in Syria.