Tag: covid19
Infections jump by half a million in UK
Covid infections are rising again across the UK, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show, reported BBC. An estimated 2. [...]
Omicron component advised for booster
The US Food and Drug Administration’s independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted Tuesday to support recommending i [...]
Covid is changing laws
MSPs (legislators) have voted to make some emergency Covid 19 powers permanent, including the ability to impose lockdowns and close schools, reported [...]
Updated boosters better against Omicron
Two Pfizer and BioNTech Covid 19 vaccine boosters updated to target the Omicron variant show a substantially higher immune response than the current [...]
Vaccines for kids arrive in Guanajuato
102,000 doses arrive in Guanajuato to vaccinate children between 5 and 11 years of age
Parents still need to register their children before they g [...]
UK infections continue to rise
Covid infections are continuing to rise in the UK, the latest figures from the Office for Mational Statistics –ONS- show, reported BBC. The data sugg [...]
BioNTech to build vaccine plant in Rwanda
The German pharmaceutical company BioNTech has broken ground for the production site of its Covid 19 vaccine in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, reported DW [...]
Austria drops vaccine mandate
Austria is scrapping an already-suspended Covid 19 vaccine mandate, Health Minister Johannes Rauch said on Thursday, reported DW. "We have decided as [...]
Covid cases are increasing
The number of Covid cases in Scotland has increased by more than 30% in the last week, according to new figures, reported BBC. The latest Public Heal [...]
‘Long Covid’ risk lower with Omicron
Last winter's Omicron variant was less likely to cause lingering symptoms, known as "long Covid", a UK investigation, in The Lancet, suggests, report [...]