Fri 25 December 2020: The World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe met on Wednesday to discuss the new coronavirus variant, which has wreaked havoc on the UK and caused high alert across Europe. The WHO’s European region comprises 53 countries, including Russia and several Central Asian nations. In total,the region has registered nearly 24 million coronavirus cases and […]
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Fri 25 December 2020: “I don’t trust this hospital,” Dr. Susan Moore said from her hospital bed in Indiana, an oxygen tube hooked up to her nose. “That is not how you treat patients.” Moore, an Indianapolis physician who was being treated for COVID-19 at Indiana University Hospital North, died of the virus this week. Earlier this […]
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Fri 25 December 2020: Chinese authorities have approved delivery to Turkey of COVID-19 vaccines set to be sent this coming Sunday, according to Turkey’s health minister. Speaking after Thursday’s meeting of the country’s Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Committee, Fahrettin Koca said the Chinese vaccine boasts an effectiveness of 91.25%. “With the evaluations of the Scientific Committee, we […]
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Thu 24 December 2020: French President Emmanuel Macron is showing no more symptoms of COVID-19, the Elysee office said on Thursday. Macron, 43, can now end his quarantine after he self-isolated for seven days at the presidential retreat of La Lanterne, close to the Palace of Versailles, the office said in a statement. He […]
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Thu 24 December 2020: After being approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the first doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine against the novel coronavirus were dispatched Thursday to EU countries. The European Commission shared a video on Twitter showing vaccines being carefully packed and shipped to 27 EU member states. “These vaccines will soon be […]
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Thu 24 December 2020: Highly promising vaccines have recently emerged for COVID-19, but this doesn’t mean research into other treatments can slow down. There is still no cure for the disease, and people will likely continue to get sick even after vaccines become widely available—by not getting their COVID shot, for example, or due to […]
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Thu 24 December 2020: Experts say that concerns about religious permissibility, speed of development as well as conspiracy theories need to be contextualised and taken seriously. Hundreds of hospitals in the US began their mass vaccination campaign last week after the Pfizer/BioNTech shot was greenlighted by authorities. The UK also started its rollout of the same shot earlier this […]
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Wed 23 December 2020: Around 500 relatives of people who died of COVID-19 in Italy said on Wednesday they were initiating legal action against regional and national authorities, seeking 100 million euros ($122 million) in damages. The roughly 500 family members say the government’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis led directly to the deaths of their loved […]
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Wed 23 December 2020: Washington: Simply wearing a face mask may not protect you from catching the novel coronavirus, that causes COVID-19, if you are not maintaining physical distancing, according to a study. The research, published in the journal Physics of Fluids, tested how five different types of mask materials affected the spread of droplets that […]
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Tue 22 December 2020: German pharmaceutical company BioNTech says it’s still unclear whether the current vaccine will be able to provide protection against the new UK variant of COVID-19, but “scientifically, it is highly likely that the immune response by this vaccine also can deal with the new virus variants.” Sahin said the BioNTech’s COVID-19 […]
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