Updated on 01/18/2022 03:58 am As people give themselves booster doses, many wonder how many more will be needed for adequate protection against COVID-19. Maybe not so many. Repeating booster doses every four months could eventually weaken the immune response and tire people out, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) warned last week. Instead, countries should […]
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Everything you need to know about COVID vaccination for children 5 to 11 years old
The vaccination process against COVID-19 continues at a steady pace around the world, after governments began to immunize children under 12 years of age, and Peru is no exception. The Ministry of Health confirmed that the vaccines for this age group will arrive this Friday and the protection of minors against the coronavirus will begin […]
Science sees the evolution of COVID with hope, but does not lower its guard
Scientific and pharmacological experts, including the American epidemiologist Anthony Fauci, were cautiously optimistic at the Davos Forum today about the evolution of the pandemic with the omicron variant, although they agreed that it is early to conclude that COVID-19 has “ flu-ridden”. “An endemic coronavirus, which no longer paralyzes societies, is possible”, but “this case […]
Fortune of the 10 richest doubled with COVID-19, the rest of the world got poorer, according to Oxfam
The fortune of the ten richest men in the world has doubled since the start of the pandemic, while the income of 99% of humanity has fallen, according to a report by Oxfam. “The increase in economic, gender and racial inequalities and inequalities between countries destroy our world”, denounces the NGO for the fight against […]
Greece imposes monthly fines on those over 60 without vaccination
Updated on 01/17/2022 09:34 am Greece on Monday imposed a vaccination order for people over 60, in a country with an immunization rate below the European Union average and where a spike in infections has kept pressure on hospitals. Seniors who don’t get vaccinated will be fined, starting at 50 euros ($57) in January before […]
Chile faces record cases for the second consecutive day with more than 9,400 positives
Chile scored this Sunday a new daily record of infections of Covid-19 for the second consecutive day after adding 9,454 new infected, leaving the total balance at 1.87 million infections. According to information from the Ministry of Health, “the new confirmed cases increased by 144% compared to the previous week and 249% compared to the […]
Ómicron: What to do if a person you live with tests positive for COVID-19?
The probability that all people will become infected with COVID-19 at some point increases; and it is that, given the increase in cases due to omicron and other variants, it is quite difficult for someone to evade the virus. While countries of America They are already going through their third wave, Europe It has already […]
COVID loses infection capacity after 20 minutes in the air
The coronavirus loses most of its ability to infect shortly after being exhaled and is less likely to be contagious over longer distances, a study from the Center for Aerosol Research at the University of Bristol has shown. The researchers found that the virus loses 90% of its contagiousness 20 minutes after being in the […]
The sixth wave of the pandemic in Spain begins to slow down
Updated on 01/15/2022 12:45 pm Spain continues to add infections by Covid-19 to the sixth wave of the pandemic, although the rate at which it does so begins to slow down and the incidence of the coronavirus is moving away from the figures registered at Christmas, according to data offered this Saturday by some autonomous […]
Ómicron arrives in Beijing less than three weeks before the Olympic Games. of winter
Updated on 01/15/2022 12:14 pm Beijing today confirmed its first local case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus less than three weeks before the start of the Winter Olympic Games in the capital china, an event that the authorities try to protect at all costs through their “zero tolerance” strategy against covid. The positive […]