Sat 24 October 2020: The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking at 10 vaccines in phase three trials as the northern hemisphere with skyrocketing cases faces a critical juncture in the fight against COVID-19, the chief scientist of global body said Friday. “Our best expectations, as far as we know by watching the trials that […]
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Sat 24 October 2020: Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) designed a heated mask that would filter and inactivate the coronavirus, reducing the risk of infection. According to Sci-Tech Daily, the reusable mask will include a heated copper mesh that will be powered by a battery. According to the research, the mesh and […]
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Fri 23 October 2020: The program will now cover employees who work as little as one-fifth of their previous hours — or one day a week — rather than one-third of their hours UK Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is increasing subsidies for bars, pubs and restaurants hammered by strict new measures to slow the spread […]
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Fri 23 October 2020: The total number of confirmed cases of has surged past the 42 million mark, according to a worldometer tally. Over a 1.1 million people have died from the virus, while almost 31 million people have recovered. The US is the hardest-hit country, followed by India and Brazil. Europe reports 200,000 daily cases for […]
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Fri 23 October 2020: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah is preparing its Hajj and Umrah Terminal for foreign Umrah pilgrims after entry was restricted for almost eight months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Several precautionary measures to ensure that pilgrims arriving in the Kingdom are safe, the Jeddah-based Okaz newspaper reported. Adnan […]
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Thu 22 October 2020: Ethiopia can jail people for up to two years if they deliberately violate restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, the attorney general’s office said, amid concern that citizens are becoming lax after a state of emergency was lifted. The restrictions prohibit shaking hands, not wearing a mask in a […]
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Thu 22 October 2020: At least 13 South Koreans have died after receiving flu shots in recent days, according to official and local media reports, ramping up fears about vaccine safety even as authorities rule out a link. Health authorities said on Wednesday they had no plans to suspend a program to inoculate around 19 […]
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Wed 21 October 2020: A coronavirus vaccine is “unlikely” to ever completely eradicate the virus, and the disease may never disappear, the British government’s chief scientific adviser has warned. “I think it’s unlikely that we’ll end up with a truly sterilising vaccine that completely stops infection. It’s likely that this disease will circulate and be […]
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Wed 21 October 2020: BOGOTA, Colombia A steady, recent rise in coronavirus cases has prompted new worries and restrictions in some Latin American and Caribbean countries. The region saw its number of infections pass 10.5 million Tuesday as the death toll topped 380,000, according to an Anadolu Agency count. Argentina The number of new daily […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: Ireland has imposed some of Europe’s toughest coronavirus restrictions as it heads back into lockdown. Prime Minister Micheal Martin laid out the new level-5 measures on Monday after Ireland’s National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) recorded 1,031 new COVID-19 cases on Monday. In a televised address on Monday, Irish Prime Minister […]
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