Health

European markets fall as infections in Germany and the US increase. USA Major European markets traded 2 percent lower on Wednesday amid new signs that the coronavirus outbreak is proving difficult to stop. Futures markets suggested that Wall Street would open about 1 percent lower. The drop followed a mixed …

Few facial masks were visible in Red Square when Vladimir Putin welcomed foreign leaders and war veterans, now in their 90s, at the country’s Victory Day military parade, in which the number of coronavirus cases in Russia exceeded 600,000. Thousands of Muscovites ignored calls to stay home and crowded on …

A gigantic Saharan dust cloud moving to the southeast of the US. USA It hit parts of the Caribbean, prompting warnings due to dangerous levels of air quality, Reuters reports. While strong warm winds over the Sahara desert carry columns of sand thousands of kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean each …

When will we get a COVID-19 vaccine? Be Alf get a modern reset? Facebook wants to answer these questions, or at least make some assumptions. The company’s new iOS app, Forecast, allows experts to make predictions and then see if they turn out to be accurate. Those experts, who are …

Forget the second wave. The first wave is still flooding us. The evidence can no longer be denied as coronavirus outbreaks emerge in all kinds of places, in cities and towns large and small. We are all fed up with social estrangement, being largely confined to our homes and apartments, …