Category: Health
Israel: Tel Aviv, Kfar Saba, Modi’in and Kochav Yair classified as coronavirus hotspots
Tel Aviv and Kfar Saba were classified as coronavirus hotspots on Sunday, or ‘yellow’ under the Israeli health ministry’s traffic light system. More...
Spain: Mallorca superspreader event sees 700 students infected with coronavirus
“Parties in hotel rooms, large bottles, boat trips and a massive reggaeton concert in the Palma bullring are behind the coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 700 students from eight autonomous communities and forced the isolation of another 2,000 in Madrid who participated in end-of-year trips to Mallorca. More...
Australia: study shows that coronavirus was very well adapted to infect humans – cats, dogs and cows also susceptible
Australian scientists have described how they used high-performance computer modelling of the form of the SARS-CoV-2 virus at the beginning of the pandemic to predict its ability to infect humans and a range of 12 domestic and exotic animals. More...
Sky News host Trevor Phillips: “the next time one of you tells me what to do in my private life, explain to me why I shouldn’t just tell you where to get off?”
Trevor Phillips, Sky News host: “Over the past two days, every Cabinet minister, including you, has come out to essentially defend the Prime Minister and Matt Hancock. More...
BBC’s Andrew Marr caught coronavirus at G7 superspreader event in Cornwall
BBC presenter Andrew Marr told viewers this morning that he believes he caught a “nasty” bout of Covid at the G7 Summit in Cornwall. More...
Moderna founder: “I am convinced that the coronavirus came out by accident from a laboratory in Wuhan”
The Canadian biologist Derrick Rossi (Toronto, 1966) is one of the founders of Moderna , one of the pharmaceutical companies that has managed to develop one of the coronavirus vaccines. More...
Brazil: new strain of coronavirus identified in Rio de Janeiro, designated P5
Monitoring in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has identified a possible new Sars-Cov-2 lineage, originating from P.1.1.28, in the region of Barra Mansa and Porto Real, on the border with the State of São Paulo, and which has only now been called P5. More...
Poland: Second coronavirus outbreak on mink farm detected – all mink to be killed
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus outbreak has been detected in two mink farms in the Biała Podlaska district (eastern Poland), the Chief Veterinary Officer informed. More...
Australia: Sydney goes into coronavirus lockdown with 80 cases
Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong will go into a 14-day lockdown as health authorities try to regain control of a coronavirus outbreak that has ballooned to 80 cases. More...
Israel: 50% vaccine breakthrough for coronavirus cases in the last month
Half of those recently infected with Covid-19 in Israel were fully vaccinated. More...