Category: World News

US pharmaceutical manufacturer Moderna has spread to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency approval of a second CoV booster vaccine for adults. “This application is based partly on recently published data obtained in the United States and Israel following the emergence of Omikron,” the company announced tonight. Earlier in the week, manufacturers Biontech and Pfizer had also applied for emergency approval for an additional booster, i.e., the fourth dose in total – but only for people aged 65 and over. According to Moderna, the application applies to…

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According to Kyiv, more than 100 children have been killed since the Russian attack on Ukraine began nearly three weeks ago. “A bloody line was crossed today,” the Ukrainian Defense Ministry tweeted today. “Every minute a child leaves Ukraine to escape the war. Russia will be held accountable and will pay for everything,” the Defense Ministry said at the same time as it published the casualty figure. Earlier, Ukrainian authorities had reported hundreds of school facilities were destroyed. The figures cannot be independently verified. The UN Office of the High…

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China has reported the highest number of infections since the first coronavirus outbreak in the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan. As the state news agency Xinhua reported today, 402 local diseases with symptoms were detected nationwide yesterday – almost twice as many as the previous day. In addition, there were 435 asymptomatic infections and 277 cases imported from abroad. After the first significant coronavirus wave in Wuhan more than two years ago, China quickly controlled the virus with strict measures. Since then, the second-largest economy has only experienced outbreaks limited…

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Corona rules will be dropped mainly in Germany as of March 20, but a hotspot regulation gives the state options for intervention. According to their statements, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP) and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) agreed on this. “We have, I think, found a perfect compromise,” said Buschmann on Wednesday in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin.” This is based on two pillars: First, there will be “virtually no more restrictions in the everyday lives of citizens.” Exceptions would be masks and tests where many vulnerable people, i.e., in nursing or…

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Today, the number of people who have fled Ukraine has exceeded the mark of two million. This was announced by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). 1.2 million refugees have arrived in Poland so far. Refugee arrivals since February 24, 2022, as of March 8.UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi compared the current refugee situation to the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, leading to a significant movement of refugees. Those had involved “maybe two or three million” people, “but over eight years. Now it’s eight days.” source: orf.at/picture: pixabay.com

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German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) warned of a summer surge in coronavirus numbers and called to maintain wide-ranging protection beyond March 20. “We must expect a summer wave,” Lauterbach told Funke newspapers (Saturday editions). Both the delta and omicron variants are so infectious, he said, that even in good weather, many contacts and declining vaccination protection could again lead to rising infection numbers. The Minister demanded that the Infection Protection Act be geared to this. Yesterday, relaxations of the CoV measures had come into force throughout Germany, affecting restaurants,…

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Tomorrow, no country in Germany is considered a coronavirus high-risk area. “With widespread occurrence of the omicron variant, the ability of this variant to cause a threatening disease is shown to be less severe compared to the previous predominant variants,” the German Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said last night. Therefore, only those more dangerous, widespread variants would become high-risk areas. Most recently, 62 countries and regions were still considered high-risk areas, including Austria (since mid-January). They will all be removed from the list at midnight. As high-risk areas were previously…

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The UN wants to increase its humanitarian assistance in Ukraine but needs more security guarantees and money significantly. “The United Nations has increased its humanitarian presence in Ukraine. We want to continue that,” UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council in New York yesterday via video. Earlier, U.N. refugee commissioner Filippo Grandi said the U.N. was preparing for up to four million refugees. Grandi said 520,000 people had already fled Ukraine for surrounding countries, including Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Russia. The U.N. commissioner said he…

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From March 1, restrictions on entry into the EU will also be lifted for people who have been protected with a vaccine approved by the World Health Organization (WHO). That’s according to a non-binding recommendation agreed by EU states on Tuesday (February 22). Until now, restrictions on non-essential entry were only waived for people who had been vaccinated with an EU-approved preparation. The WHO list also includes the two Chinese vaccines, Sinopharm and Sinovac. However, the individual EU states can demand further requirements from persons who have received a vaccine…

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