The European Union will discuss this week how to update its digital COVID certificates and what will be its approach to travel within and outside the bloc, as member countries take different measures to counter the latest wave of the pandemic. “We need to avoid fragmentation”Said the health commissioner on Monday, Stella Kyriakides, to the […]
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China quarantines packages from abroad over COVID-19 fears
Updated on 11/22/2021 10:20 am China has begun to impose 48-hour quarantines on packages coming from abroad for fear that they could spread the COVID-19 coronavirus, reports the local newspaper Global Times. The Air Mail Processing Center in the Chinese capital processes 120,000 packages coming from abroad every day, which, after two rounds of disinfection, […]
Austria faces protests after vaccine mandate
Thousands of people arrived in Vienna on Saturday to protest Austria’s latest measures against COVID-19, including a nationwide lockdown and vaccination mandate. Austria’s national intelligence service warned on Friday that protesters could attempt to enter hospitals after calls to the “action”On anti-vaccine social media groups, Krone reported, citing the Interior Ministry. Police increased their presence […]
Wuhan market re-emerges as probable source of COVID
An accountant from Wuhan, China, believed to have been the first person with COVID-19, actually developed symptoms eight days after what was initially reported, turning a seafood vendor from the now infamous Huanan market in the first known case. The confusion was caused by complications from dental treatment that made the 41-year-old sick on December […]
Wearing masks and washing hands cut COVID risk in half
Updated on 11/21/2021 01:19 am As COVID-19 returns in Europe, a study offers a reminder that simple measures like the use of masks and hand washing help prevent the disease. Wearing a mask cuts your risk of contracting COVID by more than half, according to a review of eight studies published in the British Medical […]
What were all of Bill Gates’ moves during the COVID-19 pandemic?
“There may be a virus with which people feel good enough while they are infected to get on a plane or go to the supermarket and that would spread it around the world very quickly”, was the prediction issued by Bill Gates in 2015. That warning came in the middle of the Ebola outbreak, but […]
WHO warns of 500,000 deaths without urgent measures in Europe
Updated on 11/20/2021 11:59 am The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed great concern about the rise in Covid-19 cases in Europe and has warned of the possible death of some 500,000 people by March 2022 if there are no urgent measures, the organization’s regional director, Hans Kluge, told the BBC on Saturday. The manager […]
Global overview of the obligation to get vaccinated against COVID-19
Although in more and more countries a certificate of anti-COVID vaccine is imposed for certain categories, few governments in the world order mandatory vaccination for the entire adult population, as Austria announced this Friday for February 1, 2022. This is the panorama, not exhaustive, of the obligation of the anti-COVID immunizer in the world: Mandatory […]
EU Issues Guidance on Merck’s COVID-19 Pill; check the one from Pfizer
Updated on 11/19/2021 03:25 pm The European Union (EU) drug regulatory body has issued guidance on the use of Merck’s COVID-19 pill for adults and has initiated a review of a Pfizer tablet to help member states decide on its rapid adoption. In two separate statements on Friday, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) detailed efforts […]
European Union lifts entry restriction for travelers from Peru
Updated on 11/19/2021 02:45 pm The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported this Friday that the European Union decided to recommend that its member states lift the restrictions for travelers from Peru, a measure that had been imposed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a release, Torre Tagle reported that the Council of the […]