Category: Health
USA: Hyenas test positive for Sars-Cov-2 in Colorado zoo
Two hyenas at the Denver Zoo have tested positive for the coronavirus, the first confirmed cases among the animals worldwide. More...
Prediction: European Covid winter wave of 2021 will be the worst wave of the pandemic so far
This isn’t the most difficult prediction we have ever had to make, but there is no doubt that, despite huge vaccination campaigns across the continent, the winter wave now breaking over Europe will be their worst wave of the pandemic so far. More...
Austria: more than 50% of Covid hospital patients are double vaccinated
“The number of infections among vaccinated people is too high. More...
South Korea: Nearly half of recent Covid cases in Seoul are vaccine breakthrough infections
“Of the 646 new cases confirmed in Seoul on Sunday, 49.4 percent, or 319 cases, were breakthrough cases,” Park Yoo-mi, a disease control official at the Seoul metropolitan government, said in a briefing. More...
Germany: As many Covid patients in ICU as a year ago, deaths are even higher
Despite vaccination, about as many Covid patients are currently being treated in the intensive care unit as a year ago. More...
Belgium: 71% of Flemish hospitalised Covid patients are fully vaccinated
33 patients were in a Flemish hospital with Covid between 16 and 22 October. More...
UK approves oral Covid drug Molnupiravir for use
UK Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said “Today is a historic day for our country, as the UK is now the first country in the world to approve an antiviral that can be taken at home for COVID-19. More...
WHO: 500,000 deaths from Covid in Europe this winter
“The current pace of transmission across the 53 countries of the European Region is of grave concern,” said regional WHO head Hans Kluge. More...
The dangers of new oral Covid drug Molnupiravir
“The FDA needs to tread very carefully with molnupiravir, the antiviral currently before them for approval. More...
USA: family unaware of Covid victim dissected at autopsy event in hotel
A man who died of COVID-19 was dissected in front of a paying audience in a Portland, Oregon hotel, and his widow had no idea. More...









