Category: World News

The World Health Organization (WHO) has now relaxed its vaccination recommendations against the coronavirus. Accordingly, in this new phase of the pandemic, only high-risk groups should receive an additional vaccination twelve months after their last booster, and not, as previously, healthy children and adolescents, for example. According to the WHO, this applies to older and younger people with significant risk factors. Corona: relaxation of vaccination recommendations.The organization also said Tuesday that vaccination protection beyond the basic immunization of two shots and a booster is no longer generally recommended for people…

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Trains, buses and planes have been at a standstill throughout Germany since midnight. The 24-hour warning strike is also causing massive disruptions in rail and air traffic in Austria. Among other things, all train connections via the German Corner are affected. Trains to and from Germany will be shortened or cancelled. According to information from Vienna Airport, all flights between Vienna and Munich, Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Stuttgart are also cancelled today. With the warning strikes, the German union Verdi and the Railway and Transport Union (EVG) want to increase the…

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A global action plan with a good 700 ambitious voluntary commitments is the result of the United Nations Water Summit in New York. The commitments come from governments as well as non-profit organizations and some companies. For example, 150 countries support the appointment of a U.N. special representative for water. In addition, a scientific panel on the subject will be set up.U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called on countries to take action to combat the shortage of drinking water. All hope for humanity depends on charting a new course; he said,…

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WHO expert warns against new corona variant “Arcturus.” The whole world must be seriously worried – so dramatically, an Indian researcher warned about the Corona variant XBB.1.16. It also bears the name “Arcturus.” Is the excitement justified? How dangerous is it? It is named after the brightest star in the northern sky: Arcturus, the new omicron subvariant XBB.1.16. However, the expressions of some researchers are darkening with their appearance. That’s because this variant has caused infection rates in India to rise 281 percent in 14 days – and death rates…

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According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), the risk from the coronavirus will decrease to that of influenza before the end of this year. This was said by the head of the WHO emergency program, Michael Ryan, in Geneva on Friday. “I think we’re now getting to the point where we can see Covid-19 in the same way that we see seasonal influenza: as a health threat, as a virus that will continue to kill, but a virus that won’t wreak havoc on our society or bring our…

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According to Berlin-based virologist Christian Drosten, preliminary results of a genetic study support the assumption of a natural origin of Sars-CoV-2. The analysis, which has not yet been independently verified, implicates tanuki in Wuhan, China, as potential carriers of the coronavirus. According to The Atlantic magazine, scientists had come across previously unknown Chinese data from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. This market is associated with the first Corona outbreak. He said the genetic sequences were obtained from swabs taken at and near market stalls at the beginning of the pandemic.…

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The corona pandemic abruptly changed and limited our lives. According to a study, many parents in the U.S. didn’t want to put up with it. Numerous parents did not leave their children at home despite Corona infection. At least in the U.S., that’s what a survey suggests. According to the study, over a quarter of parents have given false information or deliberately ignored protective measures. According to the study’s authors, this behaviour may have contributed to the spread of the coronavirus, which was published in the journal Jama Network Open.…

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The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies the situation in Ukraine due to the war as one of eight acute health emergencies worldwide. In the first nine months of last year alone, 14,000 civilian casualties were documented, the UN agency said in a report. 17.7 million people needed humanitarian assistance. 7.5 million Ukrainians were fleeing in Europe, it said.Of 471 attacks with heavy weapons on health facilities worldwide, 448 occurred in Ukraine, the report, presented to the Executive Board by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said. Russia, which attacked Ukraine on…

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The number of monkeypox cases worldwide has shrunk significantly, and the outbreaks that first appeared in many countries in 2022 are under control. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva warns against false composure because neither tests nor sufficient vaccines are available, especially in Africa. This could threaten the world: “We could have a virus variant in three years that is much less containable – that’s a real risk,” WHO monkeypox expert Rosamund Lewis told dpa. She urged that doctors and clinics must also continue to consider monkeypox as…

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