Our 15,000 family members, friends and neighbors fell victim to the coronavirus last week. We can almost hear the national sigh of relief when the pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, started delivering the first dose of its vaccine across the country. Pfizer and its German partner, Bioentech, were the only major vaccine …
Read More »Eurowire cancels UK virus spread trains
LONDON – Eurostar trains between London, Brussels and Amsterdam are being canceled from Monday after the Belgian government announced the closure of borders with the UK at midnight on Sunday. The high-speed train operator said on Sunday that the train would continue on the route from London to Paris. The …
Read More »Some EU countries block flights to the UK for fear of virus variations
BERLIN (AP) – Many European countries and Europe are considering banning flights to the UK and Germany on Sunday to avoid a strong foothold on the new strain of coronavirus that has spread to southern England. The Netherlands banned flights from the UK for at least the rest of the …
Read More »U.S. The official 2G COVID-19 vaccine is in the pipeline
Olive Branch, Miss. (AP) – On Sunday, workers in the U.S. With the launch of another authorized COVID-19 vaccine packaging shipment, much-needed momentum was gained for efforts to control the coronavirus epidemic. Employees at a factory in the Memphis area Modernna Inc. And boxing vaccines developed by the National Institutes …
Read More »Concerns among Muslims about the halal status of the COVID-19 vaccine
Jakarta, Indonesia (AP) – In October, Indonesian diplomats and Muslim clerics boarded a plane in China. While diplomats were finalizing the deal to ensure millions of doses reach Indonesian citizens, clerics had a very different concern: whether the COVID-19 vaccine is legal to use under Islamic law. Companies are in …
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