Tag: #COVID-19

December 8, 2021

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SEOUL - South Korea will consider expanding home treatment of Covid-19 patients, a health official said on Wednesday (Dec 8), as both ...

Nearly 70 doctors and nurses at Spanish hospital positive for coronavirus after Christmas party

December 8, 2021

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MADRID — Nearly 70 nurses and doctors working in the intensive care unit at a Spanish hospital have tested positive ...

Study suggests Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine may only partially protect against Omicron

December 8, 2021

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The Omicron variant of the coronavirus can partially evade the protection from two doses of Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech's ...

Study shows mixing Pfizer, AstraZeneca Covid-19 shots with Moderna gives better immune response

December 7, 2021

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LONDON - A major British study into mixing Covid-19 vaccines has found that people had a better immune response when ...

Officials urge people to get vaccinated as Covid-19 variant Omicron spreads in India

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NEW DELHI - Cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have risen to 21 in India over the weekend and people ...

At outbreak epicentre, South African students shrug off Omicron and fret about exams

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PRETORIA - The students knew their South African university was the epicentre of a new Covid-19 variant spreading panic across ...

Next pandemic could be more lethal than Covid-19, Oxford vaccine creator says

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LONDON - Future pandemics could be even more lethal than Covid-19 so the lessons learned from the pandemic must not ...

2 hippos in Belgian zoo test positive for Covid-19

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BRUSSELS — Two hippos have tested positive for Covid-19 at Antwerp Zoo in Belgium in what could be the first ...

Omicron shelves Japan’s reopening, but do locals even want foreign tourists back?

by Neil Newman