Despite the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, two businessmen saw in the industrialization of their products the key to survive and boost your business. A Priceless Heritage Percy Puertolas’s parents taught him and his siblings how to cultivate olive trees and harvest the fresh, juicy olives to sell in bulk. However, they received little […]
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China’s success in taming the virus could make it harder to emerge from the pandemic
Paradoxically, the forceful “zero tolerance” strategy that China has been used to keep down the number of cases of COVID-19 and protecting its economy may make it more difficult for the country to come out of the pandemic. Most experts say the coronavirus isn’t going to go away worldwide and could ultimately become, like the […]
USA: patients in hospitals with omicron delay treatment of other diseases
Roger Strukhoff was being treated for intestinal bleeding at a hospital outside of Chicago when he suffered a mild heart attack. Normally, they would have sent the 67-year-old patient to the intensive care unit, but their capacity was overwhelmed by patients with COVID-19. The staff had to bring a heart monitor to his room and […]
The best protection against omicron is a booster dose, according to studies
Updated on 01/21/2022 04:57 pm Three large studies published this Friday by the United States Centers for Control and Prevention (CDC) confirm that the best protection against the variant omicron of the coronavirus is the booster dose of the vaccines against COVID-19. According to one such analysis, which sampled nearly 88,000 hospitalized patients in 10 […]
Anti-vaccines can only buy essential goods in Italy
Updated on 01/21/2022 08:34 am Italy again limited activities for anti-vaccines this Friday with a decree law that lists the few services and establishments of essential goods that can be accessed without the basic health certificate, which is achieved with the vaccine, after passing the disease or with a negative test for coronavirus. Under the […]
Generic drug shortage continues
The shortage of generic medicines considered essential against COVID-19 continues in various drugstores and pharmacies in metropolitan Lima. For example, La República confirmed that in Inkafarma and Mifarma from av. Los Chancas (Santa Anita) do not have stock of paracetamol in any presentation. In the case of the first, there is only azithromycin at S/ […]
They present a bill to regulate maximum prices for COVID-19 tests
The bench of Together for Peru, presented a bill to declare COVID-19 testing is of national interest in all its modalities. This in order for the General Directorate of Medicines, Supplies and Drugs (Digemid) to regulate maximum prices in COVID-19 tests, exceptionally due to the state of emergency due to the pandemic. CAN SEE “We […]
Agreement to give Merck’s anti-COVID pill to 105 low-income countries
Updated on 01/20/2022 07:55 am Several dozen generic drug manufacturers signed an agreement this Thursday with the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), an organization supported by the UN, to facilitate access for 105 countries with few resources to the pill against COVID-19 from the American pharmaceutical group. Merck. “It is a crucial step towards universal access […]
More than three million daily cases of COVID-19 in the world
The world registered an average of more than 3 million daily cases of COVID-19 between January 13 and 19, a figure that has increased fivefold since the discovery of the omicron variant in late November, according to an AFP tally. In the last seven days, an average of 3,095,971 daily cases were registered, an increase […]
COVID: ómicron is more risky in children, according to South African study
Updated on 01/20/2022 04:21 am The omicron variant may be more dangerous to children than previous coronavirus variants, according to a study of hospitalization data from one of South Africa’s largest health insurance programs. Data from the 56,164 hospital admissions related to COVID-19 among the more than 2 million beneficiaries of the Government Employees Medical […]