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[ad_1] The news that the coronavirus went from humans to minks, mutated, and then jumped backwards has raised understandable concern. Officially, 12 people have been infected on farms so far, mainly in northern Denmark, but the Danish health minister has admitted that up to half of the 783 human cases …

[ad_1] LONDON – A suggestion by an ethics professor at a major UK university that governments should pay citizens to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has sparked a debate about whether such incentives are ethical or dangerous and whether they would drive or they would limit their acceptance. Julian Savulescu, a …

[ad_1] These are the UK coronavirus stories you need to know today. GPs are the ‘right professionals’ for the vaccination campaign GPs are the “right professionals” to lead England’s coronavirus vaccination campaign, the BMA said. An agreement has been reached with NHS England and NHS Improvement to administer the strokes …

[ad_1] Bulgarian health authorities said on Friday (November 6) that they have ordered massive PCR tests for COVID-19 on people in the vicinity of the two mink farms in the country, following the recent mink-related health scare in Denmark. The Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev announced the news exclusively …

[ad_1] Denmark on Friday defended its decision to kill millions of minks even after the World Health Organization downplayed fears of a mutated coronavirus strain, the discovery of which precipitated the move. “All the remaining mink will now be euthanized, including the uninfected and otherwise healthy mink,” Danish Foreign Minister …

[ad_1] NMC Health administrators are preparing to sue EY for over £ 1 billion over claims that the Big Four auditing firm was negligent when it signed the group’s accounts during a multi-million dollar “long-term” fraud. NMC Health, the former healthcare group FTSE 100, collapsed this year after discovering that …

[ad_1] VCG Image The COVID-19 pandemic is eroding the progress made in Africa’s fight against polio, leaving many children at risk, according to the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom. Tedros noted that the world has shifted focus to address the spread of COVID-19 at the …

[ad_1] The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to key health services in Africa, raising concerns that some of the main health challenges on the continent may worsen. Preliminary analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO) of five key indicators of essential health services including outpatient consultation, hospital admission, …

[ad_1] Counterfeiters don’t know the crisis. Seven people have been arrested in connection with the dismantling of a trafficking of false certificates of negative tests for Covid-19. The forged documents were illegally sold to travelers at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, AFP learned on Thursday (November 6). The investigation allowed “The discovery (on …

[ad_1] A new study suggests that COVID-19 super-spread events are more common than originally believed. Limiting meetings to 10 people or less could help prevent this problem. Scientists have spent most of the past year trying to make sense of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease responsible for …