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[ad_1] Issued on: 12/20/2020 – 02:24 The Hague (AFP) The Dutch government on Sunday banned all passenger flights from Britain after finding the first case of a new, more infectious strain of coronavirus circulating in the UK. The ban, from 6 a.m. (0500 GMT) Sunday to January 1, came hours …

[ad_1] Five COVID-19 vaccines made in China have entered the final sprint for state approval, officials said at a news conference on Saturday, according to the Xinhua News Agency. More than a million Chinese citizens have already been vaccinated with vaccines approved for emergency use. “This will gradually forge an …

[ad_1] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein visited a Likud lawmaker who is hospitalized with a severe case of COVID-19 on Saturday night. Netanyahu and Edelstein went to the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv to see David Bitan, shortly after he became the first Israelis to …

[ad_1] The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Agency for Migration, said on Saturday that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and conflict-affected communities urgently need humanitarian and recovery assistance after weeks of conflict in the northernmost regional state of Tigray in Ethiopia. “The majority of internally displaced persons now seeking …

[ad_1] China’s top diplomat offered cooperation on President-elect Joe Biden’s key priorities, warning that Beijing’s many American critics were creating an atmosphere of “McCarthyism” and ignoring common interests. Pointing to President Donald Trump’s aggressive approach, Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed hope that talks and “mutual trust” between the world’s two …

[ad_1] England’s top medical official announced on Saturday that the UK has identified a new variant of the coronavirus that “may spread more rapidly” than previous strains of the virus, prompting Prime Minister Boris Johnson to impose new restrictions on parts of the country. to control its spread. . “We …

[ad_1] Viruses mutate all the time. Most of the new variants disappear. Sometimes they spread without altering the behavior of the virus. Very occasionally, they cause dramatic changes. And the question that scientists now face is simple: does the VUI-202012/01 variant fall into the latter category? Does it pose a …

[ad_1] Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have stepped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about Covid-19 vaccines. But as the vaccine begins to roll out, online accounts are taking advantage of loopholes in new policies and successfully sharing misleading claims that try to discourage …

[ad_1] ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reached 2,469,101 as of Saturday, while the death toll from the pandemic rose to 58,313, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized health care …

[ad_1] According to a new study from the University of Washington, SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19, can enter the brain. The study suggests that people with COVID-19 suffer cognitive effects. The spike protein, often represented as the red arms of the virus, dictates which cells the virus can enter. Lead …