Fire kills over 80 COVID-19 patients at an Iraqi hospital.
Image Credit: Getty Images. According to two local Health officials, on Saturday night two oxygen tanks exploded causing a huge fire at the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. Health […]
Johnson & Johnson vaccine halted after several patients develop blood clots.
Image Credit: newson6.com In a joint statement the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended to halt the COVID-19 single-dose Johnson & […]
Austria’s health minister resigns.
Image Credit: © Bundeskanzleramt (BKA) / Andy Wenzel On Tuesday, Austrian health minister Rudolf Anschober, 60, has resigned, after he said that he cannot continue his job helping the country in combating […]
Bhutan close to vaccinating its entire population after just 16 days of starting.
Image Credit: AFP Bhutan, a small country located in the Himalayas between China and India managed to vaccinate 93% of its adult population in 16 days. Overall, 62% of Bhutan’s […]
Brazil’s first COVID-19 vaccine ready for human trials.
Image Credit: REUTERS/Leonardo Benassatto On Friday, Brazil’s Butantan biomedical institute started human trials on a potential COVID-19 vaccine.The ButanVac vaccine, as it is being called, will be the first vaccine […]
European Union secures 4 million doses of Pfizer/BioNtech.
Image Credit: Olivier Matthys/AFP via Getty Images. On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that they managed to secure four million doses of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, which […]
Israel to reopen border with certain conditions.
Image Credit: AP Photo/Oded Balilty Israeli media reported on Monday that they will reopen their borders and allow foreigners to enter the country with certain conditions. Israel will evaluate the […]
‘We need to get back to the basics’- WHO European director Dr. Hans Kluge in response to a 9% increase in cases over the past week in Europe.
Image Credit: Ida Guldbaek Arentsen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the number of new cases of coronavirus increased by 9% over […]
United States donates $300,000 to fight COVID-19 in the Amazon region of Brazil.
Image Credit: Bruno Kelly/ Reuters The United States government announced that it will donate $300,000 (R$ 1.5million) through the International Development Agency (USAID) to fight COVID-19 in the hard-hit region […]
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