The assessment that from September a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine will be needed in the general population was expressed by the Minister of Health Thanos Plevris, speaking to the SKAI television station, while leaving open the possibility of restoring some restrictive measures, depending on the course of the pandemic. More specifically, Mr. Plevris […]
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Coronavirus: Shanghai ends lockdown, Beijing remains hopeful
Asian markets celebrate the news that China to end Shanghai blockade on Wednesday. Beijing, however, continues with the restrictionsdespite the number of coronavirus cases falling and officials signaling over the weekend that they are willing to ease restrictions in some parts of the capital. The capital, Beijing eased mobility restrictions in several districts after authorities […]
China: 293 new infections and no deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours
LAST UPDATE: 09:20 The Chinese Ministry of Health announced today that in the past 24 hours in mainland China, 293 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed, involving 82 asymptomatic patients and 211 asymptomatic carriers of the virus, while at the same time no deaths due to COVID were recorded. 19. In particular, in Shanghai, the Chinese […]
China: Shanghai one step closer to exiting the lockdown
One step closer to a gradual opening after two months of lockdown is Shanghai, while Beijing maintains measures against Covid that have the effect of drastically reducing travel despite the fact that coronavirus cases are declining. The goal of the Shanghai authorities is to effectively end the lockdown in the metropolis from Wednesday. Since last […]
Switzerland: Authorities will destroy more than 620,000 expired vaccines of Moderna
Switzerland will destroy more than 620,000 expired vaccine doses of Moderna COVID-19, health officials said, as demand for the vaccine plummeted. “It has been consciously accepted that under certain circumstances, supplies of vaccines were too large for the needs of Switzerland,” said a spokesman for the Federal Office of Public Health, confirming the information transmitted […]
South Korea: 16,584 coronavirus cases, 40 deaths due to COVID-19 in 24 hours
The Korean Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KCDA) announced that 16,584 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed in the 24 hours to midnight on Thursday and 40 patients died due to complications of COVID-19. The death toll from a new coronavirus pandemic in South Korea has risen to 24,103, with a total of 18,053,287 infections. The […]
Moody’s: Global Growth Forecasts Cut Amid Russia-Ukraine War and China Blockade
World growth forecasts are reduced with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s blockadeas highlighted by Moody’s Investors Services in its latest report published this Thursday. Additional comments Advanced economies will expand 2.6% in 2022 and emerging market countries will grow 3.8%below the March forecasts, which were 3.2% and 4.2%. The current high inflation rates could […]
Healthcare, one in three nurses has been subjected to assaults at work
For a few months, in the first phase of the pandemic, they were considered heroes. Immediately after, scapegoat for the problems – real and presumed – of health care. One in three nurses (32.3%), about 130 thousand, in the last year, has suffered some form of violence during work shifts. Research reports this CEASE-it(Violence against […]
Long Covid, more than one in five people can develop it
The long Covid continues to emerge as a serious pathology that many are forced to face after passing the infection. A new, large study signed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explains that one in five adults who have passed Covidand under the age of 65, he experienced at least one health […]
Covid vaccines in nasal spray format: where we are
There had been a lot of talk about it in recent months and several experiments were known in various parts of the world. Nasal Covid vaccines, to be used as a spray and to be taken independently, without special precautions (but certainly in the right way). Many pharmaceutical companies are working on it and, as […]
