Category: Vaccine
Russia: coronavirus revaccination planned for Moscow
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said that revaccination against coronavirus in the capital will take place with the Sputnik Light vaccine, which is also planned to be used to vaccinate labor migrants. More...
Israel: increasing number of Delta coronavirus outbreaks in schools
In the past few days, several outbreaks have occurred in schools all over Israel, prompting the ministry to order students in three cities to wear masks and to consider issuing a stronger recommendation to get children ages 12-15 to get inoculated. More...
Wales: Haverfordwest woman’s arm becomes magnetic following coronavirus jab
A HAVERFORDWEST woman says she can now attach small metallic objects to her arm in the area where she had her Covid-19 jab. More...
Singapore: significant risk of vaccine breakthrough with the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine
There is a significant risk of “vaccine breakthrough” with the Sinovac vaccine, or CoronaVac, with international evidence showing that many who had taken it were later infected with COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) director of medical services Kenneth Mak on Friday, 18 June 2021. More...
Indonesia: 350 healthcare workers catch coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated
More than 350 doctors and medical workers have caught COVID-19 in Indonesia despite being vaccinated with Sinovac. More...
Bruce Springsteen concert – those with Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccines not invited
Bruce Springsteen has laid down strict rules for attendees of Springsteen on Broadway, which reopens on 26 June at the St James theatre in New York. More...
Norway: 70 infected with Delta coronavirus variant – 7 were fully vaccinated
Approx. 70 Norwegians have been infected with coronavirus after two concerts in a culture house in Færder Municipality last week, and many of them have been diagnosed with the Delta variant – the variant that was first found in India. More...
Russia: New “Moscow” coronavirus strain is Delta – Московский штамм коронавируса – Дельта
Russian newspapers are still referring to a new “Moscow” strain of Sars-CoV-2, however it seems that the strain may simply be Delta (B.1.617.2). More...
Russia: “Moscow” coronavirus variant – 1,705 new patients, 468 on ventilators, 71 deaths in one city in one day
Moscow has documented 6,805 new COVID-19 cases on June 15. More...
UK: Delta coronavirus variant could push R to 7 without mitigations says PHE chief
Dr Susan Hopkins, Public Health England’s strategic COVID-19 response director, told the Science and Technology Committee of the UK Parliament today that if the Delta variant B16712 was “unmitigated”, left to spread without any lockdown restrictions, the R number could become “greater than five and maybe up to seven”. More...