German couple Professors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci said they are hesitant to say they can find a cure for cancer, but that they have had ‘breakthroughs’ that they will keep working on. They said the development and success of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for accelerating the building of a world-class military while touting the fight against COVID-19 as he kicked off a Communist Party Congress by focussing heavily on security and reiterating policy priorities. Xi, 69, is widely expected to win a third […]
In April 2020, tigers and lions at the Bronx Zoo made the news when they came down with Covid-19. In the months following these surprising diagnoses, researchers and veterinarians found SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in nearly a dozen other species, both in captivity […]
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Experts at Dartmouth Health are recommending that everyone eligible for the new bivalent COVID-19 booster get the shot. Health experts said the vaccine has increased protection against the omicron BA.5 variant, which has become the predominant strain in the United States. Anyone […]
Andrea Tan, who is a love and intimacy coach, said that while there was a slump in human connection, there was also an overload of information. Amid an influx of ideas such as “women and independence” and “sexual liberalisation” during the pandemic, Asian women in […]
Respondent characteristics Twenty-three thousand nine hundred forty respondents and 563,976 contacts were analysed across the 18 countries for survey 1 and 25,640 respondents and 607,142 contacts across the 19 countries for survey 2. The percentage of people who agreed to participate out of all people […]
Hong Kong (HKG) will be unable to recover as long as China restricts flights and travel even though the city has moved to ease its own COVID-19 restrictions, according to IATA. Hong Kong late last month ended the mandatory 3-day hotel quarantine required of all […]
There may be a little sense of déjà vu about the warnings today from Government about the potential for some mandatory mask-wearing if there is a big Covid-19 wave this winter. But it is really just a precautionary position and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar did say […]
LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Oil prices fell about 2% on Tuesday, extending the previous session’s almost 2% decline, as recession fears and a flare-up in COVID-19 cases in China raised concerns over global demand. World Bank President David Malpass and International Monetary Fund Managing […]
By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D.Oct 10 2022Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. The global outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which subsequently led to the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, has claimed more than 6.5 million lives worldwide. Although SARS-CoV-2 is a respiratory […]
