On September 2 and September 28, the new vaccines against Covid-19 are expected in Germany, the first adapted to the variant BA.1 and the second to BA.5, announced the Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach. “The federal government has taken care of sufficient quantities of both vaccines, so the vaccination campaign could begin immediately after they […]
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USA: Deaths from coronavirus remain at high levels
Despite progress, deaths from COVID-19 remain stubbornly high in the U.S., at nearly 400 a day, a number that hasn’t changed significantly since the spring, according to an ABC News report, which cited data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the main federal health agency. In the previous […]
CDC: No quarantine for the unvaccinated who come into contact with the coronavirus
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday that it will no longer recommend that schools or daycare centers quarantine or test students for exposure to the coronavirus. The agency also said it no longer recommends that unvaccinated people self-quarantine after being exposed to the virus if they don’t test positive or […]
EMA: Rolling evaluation of Pfizer/BioNTech’s updated coronavirus vaccine begins
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced today that it has started the rolling evaluation of a variant-adapted Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech. The bivalent (or bivalent) vaccine targets two strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19, the original strain identified in China and Omicron’s BA.4/5 substrains, which are currently behind most cases of […]
China: 80,000 tourists stranded on Hainan island after Covid cases detected
More than 80,000 tourists have been stranded on the southern Chinese island of Hainan after the detection of Covid cases prompted authorities to cancel all flights and rail transport locally. Today, 483 cases of coronavirus were reported in the resort town of Sanya, which has more than a million residents, on Hainan Island, nicknamed the […]
China: Relaxation of restrictions on international flights
China’s health authorities announced today 868 new cases of coronavirus for the previous 24 hours, of which 390 with symptoms of the disease Covid-19 and 478 asymptomatic. In comparison, one day earlier 704 new cases were recorded – 361 with symptoms of Covid-19 and 343 asymptomatic. A new case has been confirmed in Beijing, involving […]
North Korea says all coronavirus patients ‘cured’
North Korea reported zero cases of “fever” patients for a seventh straight day and said all citizens infected with the coronavirus in the country have now been cured. “No new cases of fever were recorded last week and all those who had been treated have recovered,” the official KCNA news agency said in a statement […]
Germany: Health Minister K. Lauterbach tests positive for the coronavirus with mild symptoms
Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach has been positive for the coronavirus since yesterday, Thursday, evening and shows only mild symptoms, according to a statement from his ministry. “The minister is fine, with only mild symptoms. He is temporarily self-isolating and continues to work from home (…) Mr. Lauterbach has been vaccinated four times, which shows […]
N. Iliopoulos: ‘The Mitsotakis government is guilty of the health tragedy the country is experiencing’
Nasos Iliopoulos denounces the government as “guilty for the health tragedy that the country is experiencing”, citing the data of the EODY which show that deaths from coronavirus have almost tripled in July compared to the previous month. Specifically, the press representative of SYRIZA said in a post on Twitter: “The official figures of EODY […]
Biden tests positive for coronavirus again
US President Joe Biden remains positive for Covid-19, as revealed by a diagnostic test he underwent, according to the briefing note from his doctor, Kevin O’Connor, released by the White House. Biden is still feeling well and does not have a fever, according to O’Connor, who added that the US president has an occasional cough […]