GRAFTON: A Wisconsin hospital pharmacist was arrested yesterday on suspicion of sabotaging more than 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine by deliberately removing them from refrigeration to spoil, police and medical authorities said. The pharmacist, an employee of Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wisconsin, at the time that 57 vials of […]
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SEOUL: South Korea reported 1,029 new coronavirus cases today amid subdued New Year’s celebrations. The tally was up from 967 the day before, and brought total cases to 61,769, with 917 deaths, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. After initial success in subduing earlier waves of infections, […]
WASHINGTON: Only about 2.8 million Americans had received a Covid-19 vaccine going into the last day of December, putting the United States far short of the government’s target to vaccinate 20 million people this month. Shots are reaching nursing home residents at an even slower pace than others first in […]
OSLO: All travellers entering Norway will have to take a Covid-19 test within 24 hours of arrival from Jan. 2, the country’s justice ministry said today. To stop the spread of the coronavirus variant first detected in Britain, travellers from any point of origin will need to enter Norway at […]
BEIJING: China has detected its first imported case of the new coronavirus variant that is spreading rapidly around Britain, according to a publication run by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The variant was detected in a 23-year-old female student returning to China from Britain, who was […]
AMSTERDAM: A national lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the Netherlands will probably have to last at least until mid-February and even then can only be partially lifted, one of the country’s health chiefs said today. Jaap van Dissel, head of infectious disease control at the National […]
DUBAI: Iran’s Cabinet yesterday allocated US$150,000 (RM607,178) for the families of each of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian plane shot down in Iranian airspace in January, the official Irna news agency reported. Describing Iran’s handling of the situation as “unacceptable,” Ukraine said the amount of compensation should be negotiated […]
LOS ANGELES: The leading US infectious disease specialist, Dr Anthony Fauci, said yesterday he foresees America achieving enough collective Covid-19 immunity through vaccinations to regain “some semblance of normality” by autumn 2021, despite early setbacks in the vaccine rollout. Fauci made his remarks during an online discussion of the pandemic […]
MEXICO CITY: Mexico City registered 2,664 more deaths than usual earlier this month as authorities fought to contain the spread of Covid-19 that has strained hospitals and forced the city into a semi-lockdown. The populous capital’s “excess mortality” from December 1 to 12 — deaths above the typical number from […]
ASHGABAT, Turkeministan: Well-known for his baffling botanical pronouncements, Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov claimed today that liquorice could cure coronavirus, the latest supposed miracle cure in a country still claiming zero cases. “Scientists from every country are looking for effective cures, running various studies, and one of them could be liquorice […]