Sun 22 August 2021: The UK government on Sunday announced the rollout of a new nationwide antibody surveillance programme, which will make free home antibody tests available for up to 8,000 COVID-positive people a day. The UK Health Security Agency will offer these finger-prick tests to help improve the understanding of immunity against COVID-19 from […]
Continue Reading
Sun 22 August 2021: A vaccination skeptic and conservative US talk radio presenter died in hospital from complications related to a Covid-19 infection he developed last month. Nashville radio station SuperTalk 99.7 WTN tweeted on Saturday that radio star Phil Valentine had died. “We are saddened to report that our host and friend Phil Valentine […]
Continue Reading
Sun 22 August 2021: Scott Morrison, the prime minister of Australia, is defending his government’s lockdown strategy for tackling the coronavirus, saying it will stay in place until at least 70 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, as daily infections break records. Sunday’s 914 cases of the highly infectious Delta variant surpassed the previous […]
Continue Reading
Sun 22 August 2021: While the World Health Organization (WHO) advises countries not to begin booster vaccine campaigns just yet, a group of scientists in the United Kingdom are testing whether half a dosage of the booster shot will enough. Some members of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) are experimenting on what […]
Continue Reading
Sun 22 August 2021: The Saudi Ministry of Education declared on Saturday that all unvaccinated pupils over the age of 12 will be barred from attending school unless they are completely vaccinated against the coronavirus. The education ministry, in coordination with the Ministry of Health, announced at the start of the month that all students […]
Continue Reading
Sat 21 August 2021: More than 4.91 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide, according to Our World in Data, a tracking website affiliated with Oxford University. Data shows that China, where the virus first emerged in late 2019, leads the global count with over 1.92 billion shots as of Saturday. India comes […]
Continue Reading
Sat 21 August 2021: Japan has gifted over 781,000 more shots of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Embassy in Japan said in a statement late Friday. “Today, the 4th batch of AstraZeneca vaccine has been dispatched from Japan … and is scheduled to reach Dhaka on 21 August 2021,” a Facebook post read. […]
Continue Reading
Sat 21 August 2021: Hundreds of anti-lockdown protestors were detained in Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday, and seven cops were hospitalized as a result of the clashes, which saw the country’s largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases ever. In Melbourne, mounted police used pepper spray to disperse crowds of more than 4,000 people rushing into […]
Continue Reading
Sat 21 August 2021: The World Health Organization has issued a call for health experts to join a new advisory group it is forming, in part to address the agency’s fraught attempts to investigate how the coronavirus pandemic started. In a statement on Friday, the United Nations health agency said the new scientific group would […]
Continue Reading
Fri 20 August 2021: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday that COVID-19 hospitalization rates for children in the United States have reached their highest levels ever. Around the country, child hospitalizations for Covid-19 have increased to levels not seen since January, when U.S. cases and deaths were at their highest levels, according […]
Continue Reading
