Belgrade, Serbia (AP) – Vaccines from the West, Russia or China? Or nothing? This dilemma confronts the countries of Southeast Europe, where the coronavirus vaccination campaign is off to a slow start – shrouded in heavy political debate and conspiracy theories. In countries such as the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, …
Read More »Ireland has the highest Covid-19 rate in the world. How did it go wrong?
Last week, the country had one of the highest rates of infection in the world, according to Our World in Data, a scientific online publication based at Oxford University. In the seven days to January 10, about 1,323 Covid-19 cases per 10 million people were reported in Ireland, figures showing …
Read More »Providing immediate cooling to Madrid for decades of heavy snowfall
MADRID (Reuters) – Meteorologists are expecting the heaviest snowfall in decades brought by Storm Philomina on Friday in most areas of the Spanish capital Madrid and neighboring Castilla-La Manch. Such incidents are rare in the region and people are disturbed in daily life and mobility, at a time when people …
Read More »John Dillermond: New Danish children’s TV show shows a man with a large penis
The show, whose 13 episodes are available for viewing on the DR Network’s website, follows its titular character as it arranges unexpected scenes due to its inevitably huge genitals. In one episode, for example, the mustache Dillamond uses his huge, striped limb to lead his dog – but quickly, at …
Read More »The UK increased inoculation with the Ox Xford-AstraZeneca vaccine
LONDON (AP) – Britain on Monday took another huge step in the fight against covid-19, expanding its vaccination program by giving the world its first shot at a vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. Brian Pinker, an 82-year-old dialysis patient receiving a new vaccine shot administered by …
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