America faces the last week of 2021 with a steady increase in cases of COVID-19, after exceeding 100 million cases and approaching 2.5 million deaths, while studying new measures to respond to the omicron variant, whose spread has forced the cancellation of thousands of flights and several cruises in the middle of Christmas and the […]
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Diagnosis of a pandemic: background noise or explosion?
After two years of pandemic, COVID-19 is spreading again at full speed due to the highly contagious omicron variant. But despite everything, the hope remains that the coronavirus will become in 2022 an endemic disease with which humanity will learn to live. The waves of contagion follow one another and resemble one another, with their […]
With an unfinished pandemic, does anyone dare to predict what 2022 will be like?
Two years after the start of a pandemic that has changed everything politically, socially and economically, and without having managed to eradicate it, the world is once again facing a new year conditioned by a virus that will continue to affect electoral processes, summits and all kinds of events. Despite everything, the world does not […]
France registers for the first time more than 100,000 daily infections of COVID-19
Updated on 12/25/2021 10:11 pm France registered for the first time more than 100,000 daily infections since the start of the pandemic almost two years ago, adding 104,611 in the last 24 hours, reported the country’s health authorities. The same sources also reported the death of 84 people in the last 24 hours, until 122,500 […]
The world celebrates Christmas in the shadow of the pandemic
Billions of people in the world celebrate this Saturday the Christmas, tarnished for the second year in a row by the Covid-19 pandemic, especially by the explosion of infections due to the contagious variant omicron. Unmissable appointment every December 25, Pope Francis will offer his Urbi et Orbi blessing from St. Peter’s Square at noon. […]
Cinema in 2021: lights and shadows of a half recovery
In the ruinous months of 2020 of closed theaters and starving billboards, the who he looked to 2021 as the great year of recovery. Twelve months later, the balance is one of lights and shadows with an industry that does not finish raising its head in the pandemic. With vaccines as the best ally, cinemas […]
Only 2.6% of world investment in R&D corresponds to Latin America, according to OEI
Updated on 12/23/2021 02:39 pm Ibero-American investment in R&D remains low compared to industrialized countries, and currently represents only 2.6% of the world total, according to a report published by the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), in collaboration with UNESCO, which collects updated indicators on science and technology in the region. According to this report, […]
COVID-19: WHO director affirms that 2022 “has to be the year of the end of the pandemic”
Updated on 12/22/2021 11:23 am 2022 “must be the year in which the COVID-19 pandemic ends, but also the beginning of a new era of solidarity,” said the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. When evaluating the second year of the pandemic, he affirmed that “it was a very hard […]
Life expectancy in the US fell sharply in 2020 due to the pandemic
The life expectancy of Americans fell by 1.8 years in 2020, according to final official figures released on Wednesday, the worst drop in three-quarters of a century, driven in large part by the COVID-19 pandemic. Life expectancy at birth was 77 years for the entire United States population last year, down from 78.8 years in […]
Israel announces fourth dose of vaccine for over 60s and health personnel
Updated on 12/21/2021 06:43 pm Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that both health workers and those over 60 will have access to a fourth dose of vaccine against COVID-19, as recommended by the panel of experts advising the government. “The citizens of Israel were the first in the world to receive a third dose […]