Coronavirus

UK reports about 10000 Covid cases on day before lockdown was due to end

Jun 22, 2021 03:36

COVID cases in the UK have been rising in recent weeks as a result of partial easing of restrictions together with the growth of the Delta variant.
US admins promoting hate crimes against Asian-Americans

Jun 20, 2021 04:15

Speaking in an interview William Jones, journalist and political commentator said: "The hate crimes against Asian-Americans has no doubt been promoted by the tremendous anti-China bias exhibited by both the Trump and now the Biden administrations."
Delta variant of COVID spreading rapidly and detected in 74 countries

Jun 18, 2021 04:26

While health authorities around the world are collecting and sharing data on the spread of the new coronavirus variant, the fear is that in countries in the developing world with less robust monitoring systems, the Delta variant may already have spread much further than has been reported.
US COVID deaths hit 600,000 as ex-Biden adviser says high toll was avoidable

Jun 17, 2021 15:55

The US death toll in the coronavirus pandemic passed 600,000 on Tuesday (15 Jun 2021). As it did so, a former White House COVID adviser, Andy Slavitt, was under fire from the right for saying Americans could have avoided such severe losses if they had been prepared to “sacrifice a little bit for one another”.
Renaming COVID-19 variants will help fight racism

Jun 14, 2021 11:16

Labeling COVID-19 “the Chinese disease,” or naming a variant “Indian,” serves little purpose other than to hand a gift to the ignorant and the ill-intentioned – those who are either unable or unwilling to understand what is going on, or who are quick to seize on any “evidence” that can be manipulated to reinforce their prejudices.
'Shameful failure': Biden's OSHA excludes most workers from COVID protections

Jun 14, 2021 11:06

Scientists and workers' rights advocates were among those who denounced the Biden administration's new workplace safety rules regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, which were unveiled months later than expected and which the Labor Department made enforceable only for healthcare settings—leaving grocery store employees, manufacturing workers, and others vulnerable to the continuing public health crisis, critics said.
EU adds another rare blood condition as side effect of AstraZeneca, vaccine inequality causes ‘two-track pandemic’

Jun 13, 2021 14:52

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says vaccine inequality between rich and poor countries has created “a two-track pandemic.”
Critics decry 'preventable mass death' in Africa as rich nations 'just sit back and watch'

Jun 12, 2021 03:31

Months into a debate at the World Trade Organization over suspending patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines in order to end the global pandemic, the delay has left Africa facing a third wave of deadly infections as countries across the continent confront dwindling supplies of vaccines.
New Vietnam variant imperils global supply chains

Jun 08, 2021 03:12

Hybrid COVID-19 strain fuels new outbreak that threatens Samsung, Apple, LG, Panasonic, Foxconn and other tech giant production facilities in Vietnam.
How SARS-CoV-2 first adapted in humans

Jun 02, 2021 15:53

Early in the pandemic, in the scramble to create tools to study SARS-CoV-2, investigators developed pseudovirus systems to measure infection in a safe, easily quantifiable way.