Sun 21 November 2021: Kosovo’s health officials are attempting a fresh approach to urge people to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by collaborating with the Muslim community at Friday prayers. Imams around Kosovo urged the faithful to receive the vaccine, while medical personnel waited in mosque yards to vaccinate them. Despite a recent drop in daily […]
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Sun 21 November 2021: It’s no secret that being a work-from-home mom during the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic was a drag. And those tech tools—video meetings and texting—designed to make remote work easier? They just added to the stress and exacerbated the mental health toll on burnt out moms trying to hold everything together. […]
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Sat 20 November 2021: Thousands of people flocked to the streets in Austria on Saturday as outrage over new Covid restrictions imposed to combat a resurgent pandemic grew, causing overnight rioting in a Dutch city and a French island. Europe is dealing with a new wave of illnesses, and several governments have increased restrictions, with […]
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Sat 20 November 2021: Before the treatment’s formal approval across the EU, the European Union’s medicines watchdog has advised its member states that they can use a potentially revolutionary COVID-19 antiviral pill in emergency situations driven by rising infection rates. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in a statement on Friday that molnupiravir, which is […]
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Fri 19 November 2021: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 8,573,480 as of Friday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU), said the death toll from the pandemic across the continent stands at 221,408. Some […]
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Fri 19 November 2021: According to media reports, a Chinese man was fined 200,000 Yuan ($31,000) and given a two-year suspended jail sentence for hiding COVID-19 symptoms after a travel overseas and violating quarantine restrictions, as the country toughens restrictions in an uphill battle to eliminate the virus. According to Chinese digital daily The Paper, […]
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Fri 19 November 2021: The Food and Drug Administration authorized Moderna and Pfizer’s Covid booster shots for all U.S. adults on Friday, as growing data demonstrates the efficacy of vaccines wanes over time. Boosters were previously only offered to persons with compromised immune systems, those over the age of 65, those at high risk of […]
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Fri 19 November 2021: Pfizer announced on Thursday that it will sell 10 million Covid-19 treatment courses to the US government for $5.3 billion, subject to regulatory approval. The pharmaceutical company requested emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday for its Paxlovid tablet, which has been demonstrated to reduce hospital […]
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Thu 18 November 2021: The head of Germany’s disease control organization has warned that unless actions are made to combat the high spike in coronavirus infections, the country could face a “really terrible Christmas.” According to the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s disease control organization, 65,371 new confirmed cases were registered in a single day on […]
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Wed 17 November 2021: On Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel termed the COVID-19 situation in Germany as “dramatic,” claiming that the pandemic’s fourth wave has hit the country “with full force.” “We need to state that the pandemic is not over. On the contrary, the current situation is dramatic, and I cannot call it differently. […]
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