Month: March 2022

It is not infected neurons of the nose that cause the common symptom but damaged neighboring cells. Disturbances of the sense of smell are, in many cases, the leading symptoms of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Until now, scientists assumed that the cause was damage to the neurons in the epithelial cell layer of the upper respiratory tract. According to US scientists, however, experiments in the laboratory with tissue samples from covid 19 patients and infected hamsters show a different picture: the defects affect supporting cells and only hinder the function of…

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According to data from US Johns Hopkins University, there have already been six million Corona deaths Current data: Since the beginning of the Corona pandemic, more than six million people have died worldwide after being infected with the virus. Hundreds of thousands dead since Omicron According to data from the US Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the university published in Baltimore on Monday. The threshold of five million Corona deaths worldwide exceeded at the beginning of November, the four million mark at July last year. After two years of a pandemic:…

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Pope Francis has again urged a ceasefire, negotiations, and humanitarian corridors in Ukraine. Ukraine: “war,” not “military operation.” In his most detailed statement to date on the Russian attack on the neighboring country, he stressed this Sunday that the arms race could not be called a “military operation” but only a “war.” In doing so, the pope contradicted the official Russian reading of events. “War is madness.” At his Angelus prayer in Rome with thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, Francis announced that two cardinals of the Curia would…

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According to the United Nations, more than 1.5 million people have already fled the country because of the war in Ukraine. This is the “fastest-growing refugee crisis” in Europe since World War II; the UN said Sunday on the short message service Twitter. With fighting intensifying, the number of people fleeing the country every day is likely to continue to rise. According to UN estimates, four million people may want to leave Ukraine. By the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the end of February, there were just…

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