Sunday Independent

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MOSCOW began distributing the Sputnik V Covid-19 shot at 70 clinics yesterday, marking Russia’s first mass vaccination against the disease, the city’s coronavirus task force said. The task force said the Russian-made vaccine would first be made avail

NPR

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Also: If I head to a new state or country for a visit, do I need to self-isolate to protect others in case I'm contagious?

STAT

1 min. di lettura

An FDA advisory panel recommended the agency issue an emergency use authorization for the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, all but guaranteeing the agency will do so.

TIME

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IT’S A RARE GLIMMER OF HOPE IN A BRUTAL AND battering pandemic year: in November, both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech reported that their much anticipated COVID-19 vaccines are around 95% effective in protecting people against getting sick with the dise

People

3 min. di lettura

The celebrated reopenings—of restaurants, bars, shops—in May and June have given way to a soaring number of new COVID-19 cases. The single-day record on July 3 was a staggering 56,567 new infections. “We see what happened as soon as we took our foot

STAT

4 min. di lettura

One new roadmap to end coronavirus lockdowns suggests they could ease up in June, at the earliest.

NPR

2 min. di lettura

A general increase in mask-wearing has been encouraging, U.S. public health experts say. But too few young people, especially, are social distancing and taking other steps to slow coronavirus' spread.

Los Angeles Times

3 min. di lettura

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — More than a year into a pandemic that has claimed 523,000 lives in the United States, right-wing protesters in Idaho, including a handful of elected officials, set protective masks aflame Saturday, claiming face coverings stif

Newsweek Europe

1 min. di lettura

A newborn in Praram 9 Hospital on April 9 wearing a protective face mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. According to the CDC, while transmission is unlikely from mother to child during pregnancy, newborns are “susceptible to person-to-pers

NPR

2 min. di lettura

Vaccine candidates are in advanced clinical trials, and WHO's director-general expresses hope they will be effective. But until then, he said, the world is reliant on "the basics" of disease control.

Los Angeles Times

2 min. di lettura

LOS ANGELES - Among a troubling spike in the number of coronavirus cases across California, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a bit of positive news Monday: The rate of positive infections over the past 14 days has held steady, while the seven-day average

India Today

2 min. di lettura

Long before e-commerce entered our lives, Defence Store in New Delhi’s Defence Colony Market was one of the few shops that stocked butter paper and imported cocoa. For the past 68 years, it has attracted families, food enthusiasts and students from a

Kiplinger

1 min. di lettura

The most important healthcare story of 2020 was COVID-19, without a doubt. It was an event with few peers, and it challenged some parts of the sector while elevating others. And in one way or another, COVID likely will have an impact on many of 2021'

Los Angeles Times

1 min. di lettura

SAN FRANCISCO - Two coronavirus-infected people died in Santa Clara County on Feb. 6 and Feb. 17, the medical examiner revealed Tuesday, making them the first documented COVID-19 fatalities in the United States. Until now, the first fatalities were b

Numismatic News

1 min. di lettura

After announcing that its West Point mint was temporarily suspending production April 15, the U.S. Mint announced just five days later that the facility would resume operations in a limited capacity. When the Mint announced the shutdown, it stated do

NPR

1 min. di lettura

An analysis of preliminary data from the CDC shows that the risk of serious disease and death from COVID-19 is higher in older age groups in the U.S. But they aren't the only groups at risk.

India Today

2 min. di lettura

On March 14, about 20 angry senior citizens stood outside Delhi’s RML Hospital. Suffering from cold and cough for the past few days, they were terrified they had COVID-19 and wanted to be tested. However, as per the Indian Council of Medical Research

Sunday Tribune

1 min. di lettura

INDIA’S government yesterday urged states and union territories to accelerate Covid-19 vaccinations after a review found “substantial” room for speeding up the programme. India started what it says is the world’s biggest vaccination programme on Janu

Futurity

1 min. di lettura

The COVID-19 vaccine is on track to become the fastest-developed vaccine in history, but that doesn’t mean critical steps are being skipped, Ruth Karron argues. Ruth Karron, who leads the Center for Immunization Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomber

STAT

3 min. di lettura

President Trump announced new guidance encouraging Americans to wear homemade face coverings when in public in an effort to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus. 

Sunday Independent

1 min. di lettura

INDIA’S government yesterday urged states and union territories to accelerate Covid-19 vaccinations after a review found “substantial” room for speeding up the programme. India started what it says is the world’s biggest vaccination programme on Janu

NPR

2 min. di lettura

The closures come after many school districts and dozens of colleges and universities have temporarily closed because of the disease.

Cycling Plus

1 min. di lettura

The bicycle has really changed the nature of my job,” considers Amadu Meja, 40, from Malawi, a community volunteer in the town of Thyolo in the south of the country. “I am now able to visit many more households than I could before I received the bicy

India Today

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National-level tennis player, Pune Pune-based Bhavika Gundecha landed in Mumbai from Spain on March 16 after having cut short her 25-day training programme in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak there. Soon after landing, she was taken to the SevenHil

Classic Car Buyer

3 min. di lettura

For most of the decimated 2020 show calendar, the hope for a full 2021 season helped to keep everyone positive. But with a rise in Covid-19 cases leading to extended travel restrictions throughout Europe and the re-imposition of lockdown in England t

Futurity

1 min. di lettura

COVID-19 in infecting and killing black Americans at an alarming rate, data show. A recent Associated Press analysis—one of the first attempts to examine the racial disparities of COVID-19 cases and deaths nationwide—found that, of nearly 3,300 of th

Post Magazine

5 min. di lettura

South Korea on Thursday reported fewer than 200 new Covid-19 cases for the first time in more than two weeks but authorities remain on high alert after the number of seriously ill patients increased and a new cluster of infections was identified in a

Evening Standard

4 min. di lettura

Businesses have called the postponement of easing lockdown restrictions "devastating" as England's Chief Medical Officer prompted fears of a longer shutdown by warning the UK may have reached its "limit" for reopening. Boris Johnson announced on Frid

Pretoria News Weekend

1 min. di lettura

THE news yesterday that US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania have tested positive for Covid-19 may well be cause for schadenfreude in some parts of the world, given the White House’s resolute denial of both the best scientific advice and th

India Today

2 min. di lettura

Identified the first case in Jaipur that turned out to be a super spreader Though the lockdown to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus was in its early days towards the end of March, a protocol to deal with non-resident Indians coming into the cou