An Iranian budget official says healthcare spending has risen six-fold in eight years to over $6 billion.

The insurance policies have become increasingly popular, and absolutely necessary, in the wake of alarming increase in mass shootings in different US cities in recent years.

With the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic last year came an increase in hostility and racial abuse against Asians, including the very people putting their own lives on the line to save others. 

Dr Moore, herself a physician, believed that she had not been taken seriously by the doctors and had been refused treatment due to her race. She died of COVID-19 after being discharged from against her will.

The prospect of individual nations entering a second lockdown will create a heavy burden on the governments of each country, as well as the EU as a whole, to pick up the pieces left over from pandemic ravaged economies.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inaugurates 26 healthcare projects worth nearly $40 million.

Clashes between protesters and police break out in Quito as the former take to the streets to demand unpaid wages for healthcare workers.