Volunteers check orders of daily necessity goods at a supermarket according to wish lists of residents in quarantine in Tonghua, China, on January 24. Xu Chang/Xinhua/Sipa USA Residents of a city in northeast China have taken to social media to complain that a stringent coronavirus lockdown has left them short of food and medicine, triggering … Read more
People walk along a street near a market in Wuhan, China, on January 19. Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images On the surface, Wuhan bustles like a city that has never known a paralyzing 76-day lockdown. At dawn, market vendors busily unload fresh fruits and vegetables. Office workers fill popular eateries during lunch break. As dusk falls, elderly … Read more
England is a “long, long, long way” from easing lockdown restrictions given the “enormous” pressure on the National Health Service (NHS), British Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday. Speaking on Sky News, Hancock said: “There is early evidence that the lockdown is starting to bring cases down. But we’re a long, long, long way … Read more
A “closed” sign hangs on the door of a restaurant in Detroit in April. Emily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images Michiganders can once again dine indoors at restaurants starting Feb. 1, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced at a news conference Friday. “The pause has worked,” Whitmer said. “The efforts we have made together to protect our families, … Read more
A coffin labeled “Biohazard Covid-19” is seen at a crematorium in Dülman, Germany, on January 19. Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance/Getty Images Germany has surpassed 50,000 Covid-19 deaths, according to data published Friday by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country’s disease control agency. In the past 24 hours, Germany reported 859 new fatalities related to Covid-19, bringing … Read more
President Joe Biden’s first full day in office on Thursday focused on rolling out his national strategy to get the coronavirus pandemic under control and signing several executive actions, including ramping up vaccination supplies and requiring international travelers to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test prior to traveling to the US. “Our national strategy is … Read more
A group of Peruvian medics went on hunger strike Tuesday demanding more investment in the health sector and rejecting the country’s handling of the pandemic amid rising cases of Covid-19, according to a statement from Peru’s Social Security National Medical Union (SINAMMSOP) published Wednesday. About a dozen medics from the national social security union have … Read more
New research out this week provides reassuring evidence that people vaccinated against coronavirus will be protected against emerging new variants of the virus. Two teams tested two of the new variants against blood taken from people who had received the full two-course dose of either the Moderna or the Pfizer vaccine. While the mutations in … Read more
The UK government is “pausing” plans to roll out rapid daily Covid-19 testing on close contacts of positive cases for students and staff in English secondary schools and colleges, it announced on Wednesday. A government spokesperson said that the change of plans was the result of updated advice from UK scientific advisers. “NHS Test and … Read more
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