Category: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Sat 19 February 2022: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that the world is not prepared for a new pandemic that could follow the coronavirus and reiterated his view that the narrative that the crisis is over is false.   Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus remarks were made in an address to the three-day […]

Fri 18 February 2022: Police in Ottawa are working to clear the centre of the capital three weeks after protests shut it down. Ottawa police have made nearly two dozen arrests and begun towing vehicles that have blockaded the centre of the Canadian capital for three weeks, as a large contingent of officers moved in […]

Fri 18 February 2022: The World Health Organization has reduced the recommended quarantine period for people who have been exposed to the coronavirus under the new guidelines. People who test negative now have seven days to get out of quarantine. Previously, the period of time was 14 days. In cases where testing to shorten quarantine […]

Fri 18 February 2022: The world has become “better prepared” to deal with future variants of the coronavirus, the CEO and co-founder of German vaccine-maker BioNTech said, as the company works on an Omicron-specific shot.  “We will have to get used to the fact that we will have to live with the virus for the […]

Thu 17 February 2022: Germany will relax COVID-19 regulations now that a wave of infections caused by the Omicron coronavirus strain appears to have passed, according to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Scholz said Germany was ready to look forward to COVID-19 with more confidence after a meeting with the chiefs of the federal states earlier on […]