Updated on 12/16/2021 08:55 am Denmark became the first country in the European Union (EU) to authorize the antiviral treatment molnupiravir, from the US laboratory Merck, for patients at risk with symptoms of coronavirus. The drug in pill form, marketed under the name Lagevrio, was approved in November by the EU regulator for emergency use […]
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WHO calls for caution in the Christmas holidays and urges vaccination
Updated on 12/16/2021 07:26 am The regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Europe, Hans Henri P. Kluge, asked Europeans on Thursday to maintain precautionary measures against the coronavirus during the Christmas holidays and urged vaccination. The WHO recalls in a statement that this Christmas Europe will face two highly communicable variants (the […]
How did the omicron variant originate? Scientists seek to solve mystery
Updated on 12/15/2021 05:20 am The sheer number of omicron mutations raises many questions: whether the variant will elude vaccines, whether it will spread more easily, and whether it will lead to a severe disease state. The variant’s changes also make scientists wonder about its origins. When the scientist who first detected the new variant […]
Netherlands extends night lockdown and advances school holidays
The Dutch Government announced this Tuesday that the current “night lockdown”, whereby all non-essential activity closes at 5:00 p.m. local time (4:00 p.m. GMT), will be extended until January 14, and the closure for holidays will be brought forward one week from Primary schools due to the threat of the omicron variant. Acting Prime Minister […]
Gates and why he believes the acute phase of COVID will end in 2022
The creator of Microsoft, Bill Gates, on his personal blog wrote an intimate post where he addressed personal issues such as his divorce, but also made a recount of what happened in 2021 and what is to come for next year, such as the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to their estimates. Gates He […]
Pfizer vaccine protects 70% of severe cases of the omicron variant
A vaccine from the US laboratory Pfizer is globally less effective against omicron, but protects 70% in severe cases, according to a study presented on Tuesday and carried out in South Africa, where the new variant of the coronavirus was detected in November. This new variant of the COVID-19 raises many questions. According to the […]
China confines half a million people due to COVID outbreak in province that is economic engine
Updated on 12/14/2021 07:29 am Zhejiang province, an economic engine in China, recorded a COVID-19 outbreak on Tuesday that forced authorities to confine half a million people and shut down businesses in several districts. Zhejiang, an industrial and export hub on the east coast, reported 44 of the 51 cases of COVID-19 by direct contagion […]
Boris Johnson confirms the first death from the omicron variant in the United Kingdom
Updated on 12/13/2021 08:45 am At least one person has died in the United Kingdom from the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, which in London alone already represents approximately “40% of cases”British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday. Speaking to the media during a visit to a vaccination center in the Paddington neighborhood, […]
Chile detects omicron variant in Santiago by community transmission
Updated on 12/13/2021 07:01 am The Chilean health authorities confirmed the detection of the first case of the Ómicron variant in Santiago in a 65-year-old man who had no links with travelers arriving in the country, being the first infected by community transmission of this COVID-19 mutation. The Regional Ministerial Secretariat (Seremi) of Health of […]
The world is ill-prepared to prevent another pandemic
Updated on 12/13/2021 06:00 am While the world’s overall readiness score on the 2021 Global Health Security Index is not particularly good, it is noticeably worse in the prevention category, according to Statista. The global average score for preventing the emergence or release of pathogens is only 28.4 out of 100, as 113 countries show […]