A growing number of countries are reducing the wait time for COVID-19 vaccine efforts from six to three months in an attempt to prevent a further increase in omicron infections. The reaction comes from preliminary evidence suggesting that omicron is spreading faster than its predecessor, Delta, and is more likely to infect people who were […]
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Capacity in establishments would be reduced to 60% at Christmas and New Years
The Minister of Health, Hernando Cevallos, reported that during the Christmas and New Year holidays the capacity of all establishments will be reduced. This was after a dozen cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 were detected in the country. “We are going to convert it into a council of ministers. They have spoken yesterday […]
Moderna Announces Booster Dose Increases Omicron Protection
Updated on 12/20/2021 07:31 am The American pharmaceutical company Moderna has assured today that a booster dose of its vaccine against COVID-19 increases protection against the omicron variant. The multinational has released today the preliminary data of the studies they have carried out on the booster doses and the strategy they plan to implement to […]
The omicron threat and new closures loom over the holidays in Europe and the US.
The Netherlands came under a new shutdown on Sunday, while the possibility of further COVID-19 restrictions before the Christmas and New Year holidays loomed over several European countries as the omicron variant spread rapidly. In the United States, White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci urged people traveling to visit loved ones to get boosters and […]
France wants to avoid a lockdown and closing schools would be the last thing
Government French will do everything possible to avoid another confinement with the new wave that is coming over with the omicron variant, according to the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, who insisted that if there are new restrictions “the school is the last thing to close ”. In an interview with the BFMTV channel, Blanquer […]
Pfizer to deliver 20 million more doses to the EU by early 2022
The European Commission (EC) agreed this Sunday with BioNTech-Pfizer accelerate delivery of its coronavirus vaccine to community club countries, with the Twenty-seven receiving an additional 20 million doses during the first quarter of 2022. Thus, BioNTech-Pfizer will deliver to the community club five million more doses than originally planned during January, an additional five million […]
COVID-19: Why aren’t antibodies the only defense against omicron?
In the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus, a key component of the immune system garnered attention: antibodies. These Y-shaped proteins have made headlines recently because COVID vaccines don’t make enough of them to fight the omicron variant of the coronavirus, unless something is introduced to stimulate them. Trained by both vaccines and infection, the antibodies […]
Can Your Pet Get COVID-19?
Updated on 12/19/2021 03:52 am Can your pet get infected with COVID-19? Yes, pets and other animals can contract the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but US health authorities maintain that the risk of transmitting it to people is low. Dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, otters, hyenas and white-tailed deer are some of the animals that have […]
With the expansion of omicron, New York fears reliving the nightmare of 2020
Brooklyn restaurants are closing one after the other due to an increase in infections with the omicron variant of Covid-19 while the queues to get tests in one New York who is afraid of reliving the nightmare of 2020, when the city was the global epicenter of the pandemic. In the Greenpoint neighborhood, more than […]
Germany: regions ask to tighten entry conditions to stop omicron
Updated on 12/18/2021 10:39 am The regions german They asked the government this Saturday to tighten the rules of entry into the territory and prohibit arrivals from the United Kingdom to slow the spread of omicron variant. In a videoconference, the health ministers of the 16 federal states asked that passengers over 6 years of […]