Tag: pandemic
WHO report on coronavirus pandemic origins published
Arguments in favour [of a lab leak] : Although rare, laboratory accidents do happen, and different laboratories around the world are working with bat CoVs. More...
70% of Czechs do not believe that the coronavirus pandemic will end in 2021
7 out of 10 Czechs do not believe that the pandemic will come to an end in 2021. More...
Young people’s mental health deteriorated during the coronavirus pandemic
Swedish reports and surveys clearly show that young people’s mental health is negatively affected during the coronavirus pandemic.
Finland Prime Minster Sanna Marin on coronavirus: “It may be we’ll be in this situation for years to come”
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marinin is concerned about possible new variants of the coronavirus that may be resistant to vaccines. More...
Walter Reed coronavirus study: “We found moderate evidence for 8 SARS-CoV-2 recombination events, two of which involved the spike gene”
We undertook recombination analyses of 158,118 public seasonal hCoV, SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV genome sequences using the RDP4 software. More...
WHO: The coronavirus pandemic has caused mass trauma on a larger scale than World War II
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused mass trauma on a larger scale than World War II, and the impact will last “for many years to come,” the World Health Organization’s top official said Friday. More...
Teachers should be prepared to ‘sacrifice their lives’ to open schools in coronavirus pandemic, says ex-Ofsted head
The former head of Ofsted has said that teachers need to show a “similar commitment” to medical professionals, who in some cases have “sacrificed their lives.”
India, Maharashtra again reports over 6,000 coronavirus cases in Pune, Nagpur, Mumbai, Amravati, Thane and Akola
A rising trend of COVID-19 cases and the positivity rate has been observed in six districts — Pune, Nagpur, Mumbai and Suburban, Amravati, Thane and Akola — over the past few days. More...
UK Covid deaths surpass Great Plague, AIDS epidemic and every terror attack and war since 1945 combined
The estimated fatalities from the Great Plague of 1665-66, the Aids epidemic and every terror attack and war of the last 75 years that the UK has been involved in totals 99,500. More...
Early warnings of COVID-19 outbreaks across Europe from social media
“We analyze data from Twitter to uncover early-warning signals of COVID-19 outbreaks in Europe in the winter season 2019–2020, before the first public announcements of local sources of infection were made. More...