Category: World News

More than 299 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 5.4 million infected people have died. More than 9.3 billion vaccine doses have been administered. A group of young Canadians are apparently stuck in Mexico after a sensational party flight to the country without complying with corona measures. At least two Canadian airlines wanted to deny them return travel because of their behavior on the outbound flight, after another airline canceled the return flight. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called them…

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the arrest of people who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus and are violating the curfew in place in the country. Those who refuse to stay at home in violation of the instructions could be arrested, Duterte said today. The CoV pandemic, he said, is a “national emergency” that justifies such action. In light of the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, the government had decided earlier this week that in the capital Manila and several other cities, unvaccinated people would only be…

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Omicron continues to rage almost unchecked on the island. More and more people are having to go into self-isolation – but the government isn’t budging. Around five percent of all Britons are currently sitting at home: as the Daily Mail reports, 1.3 million people in the UK are already in self-isolation. For the population, the effects are already being clearly felt. The situation is so dramatic that there are piles of garbage on roadsides all over England because the responsible refuse collectors no longer have enough staff available. The failures…

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Pills will be ordered from pharmaceutical company Pfizer to treat up to 20 million patients, President Joe Biden said Tuesday (Jan. 4) at the White House. “We may even need more,” Biden said, looking ahead to the coming months. The drug will prevent many hospitalizations and deaths, he added. Pfizer, along with German company Biontech, already markets a widely used vaccine against the corona virus. The number of new corona infections recorded daily in the U.S. has exceeded one million for the first time since the pandemic began. With about…

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In Great Britain, driven by the Omicron variant, more than 200,000 new Corona infections have been recorded within one day for the first time. Within 24 hours, 218,724 cases were reported, the government said Tuesday. In addition, 48 deaths were recorded, it said. The national health service NHS warned of an overload of hospitals because of the many quarantined employees. At least six hospitals reported “critical incidents” Tuesday, meaning the situation could affect priority care. Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to take action to fill staffing gaps in the hardest-hit…

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The number of Covid 19 cases registered so far was already around 290 million worldwide at the turn of the year. But all statistics are likely to reflect only part of the pandemic. Indeed, 40 percent of those testing positive for Sars-CoV-2 have no symptoms. This is the result of a meta-analysis of international studies involving almost 30 million people. Conclusion: asymptomatic infected individuals contribute quite significantly to the spread of covid-19. Qiuyue Ma and co-authors from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Peking University recently published their findings…

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More than 292 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 5.4 million infected people have died. More than 9.2 billion vaccine doses have been administered so far. Thailand will not relax entry rules tightened before Christmas until at least the end of the month. That’s what Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said Tuesday (Jan. 4), according to the Bangkok Post. The government had decided on Dec. 21 to initially suspend until Jan. 4 the quarantine-free “Test&Go” model, under which fully vaccinated tourists…

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About 150 passengers on board the cruise ship “MSC Grandiosa” have tested positive for coronavirus in Genoa. The ship had arrived in Genoa from Marseille and was scheduled to sail on to Civitavecchia, the port of Rome, this afternoon, the cruise line said. The mostly Italian passengers were isolated in their cabins until the arrival of port authorities and regional health officials. They will reportedly be taken home in buses, while the foreign passengers have been placed in a nursing home in Genoa. If that facility is at capacity, additional…

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More than 290 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to John Hopkins University. More than 5.4 million infected people have died. More than 9.1 billion vaccine doses have been administered. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin tested positive for the corona virus Sunday (Jan. 2). The Pentagon said Austin was showing only mild symptoms, but he would follow guidelines from the CDC health agency and spend the next five days at home in quarantine. He retains all command authority and will continue to work virtually and attend…

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