Tag: covid
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...
Germany: Delta coronavirus infections double in one week
In Germany, the proportion of Delta variant infections is growing significantly. More...
Scotland: Delta runs rampant – record high coronavirus infection numbers for second day in a row
The Scottish Government has said that Scotland has recorded the highest number of daily coronavirus cases since the start of the coronavirus pandemic for the second day in a row. More...
Angela Merkel: quarantine the British to prevent Delta coronavirus variant
Angela Merkel has only just returned from the G7 summit in Britain where there was virtually NO social distancing*, NO masks, NO vaccine requirement and NO quarantine on return. More...
UK: G7 Superspreader Summit – Cornwall coronavirus rates soar above England average for the first time ever
Covid rates in Cornwall have risen above the England average for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
Israel: Delta coronavirus outbreaks – Binyamina designated orange, Modiin Maccabim-Re’ut designated yellow
The Israeli Health Ministry reported 110 new coronavirus cases in Israel in the last 24 hours on Wednesday morning, bringing the total number of active cases to 554. More...
Norway: Nursing home deaths after Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccination
In the period 27 December 2020 to 15 February 2021, about 29,400 of Norway’s roughly 35,000 nursing home patients were vaccinated with the [Pfizer–BioNTech] mRNA vaccine BNT162b2. More...
WSJ: are coronavirus vaccines riskier than advertised?
Wall Street Journal opinion: “not a single published study has demonstrated that patients with a prior infection benefit from Covid-19 vaccination. More...
Ireland: fur-farming including mink to be banned in 2022 to prevent coronavirus zoonosis
The Irish Cabinet is set to agree to ban fur-farming from next year, with a compensation package for farmers also expected. More...