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Incierto futuro de Lionel Messi al expirar contrato con Barcelona MADRID.- El contrato de Lionel Messi con el Barcelona expiraba el miércoles, sin que el astro argentino ni el club hayan aclarado su futuro. La expectativa generalizada es que Messi, de 34 años y quien participa actualmente en la Copa América con la selección de su país, se quede en el club catalán. De acuerdo con distintos reportes, el delantero ha estado cerca de una extensión contractual por otros dos años. El futur...

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. Despite safety concerns, the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) reversed itself last week and voted to allow a trickle of Sputnik V, the Russian-made COVID-19 vaccine, into the country. Only 928,000 doses will be imported—just a fraction of the total requested by a group of state governors—and the agency imposed stringent measures to reduce supposed health risks and monitor the vaccine’s safety and effi...

Hope has returned to the small city of Serrana, Brazil, after researchers vaccinated almost its entire adult population in a city-wide medical experiment this spring.

Just one COVID-19 patient is in critical condition at the Dr Geraldo Cesar Reis clinic in Serrana, a Brazil...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's Health Ministry announced the shutdown of all public and private universities and schools in the country's 16 provinces, including Kabul, for at least two weeks starting Saturday. The decision follows a surge in cases. On Friday, 977 people tested positive for COVID-19 and 18 died, most of them in Kabul. Only 3,800 were tested. Over 600,000 people have received a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the...

Also on this day in 2020, protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody, broke out for a third straight night. See more

Tablets of ibuprofen. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) PARIS (AFP) — Taking anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen does not increase the risk of developing a severe form of COVID-19 or of dying from it, according to a new study, the largest so far on this class of medicines. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic there was concern over the potential effects of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which are used to treat everything from minor pain to chronic arthritis and cardiovascular d...

0 shares Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks during a press conference at Pfizers factory in Puurs, Belgium. (John Thys/Pool/AFP) Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Thursday said he was against a US-backed proposal to waive patents on COVID-19 vaccines and that production should be ramped up in existing facilities instead. In an interview with AFP, Bourla said his company, which developed its vaccine with German firm BioNTech, was “not at all” in favor of the call from the United States to waive...

Today’s top pics: Coronavirus outbreak and more A NYPD officer walks up beside rental trucks and a hearse that have their back-ends covered by a tarp outside Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Police were called to the funeral home Wednesday after it resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks. The scene was the latest example of funeral homes struggling with thousands of deaths caused by the coronavi...

The whole country is collapsing - Brazilian in Ireland fears for his homeland In Brazil, where deaths are running at about 3,000 per day, accounting for one-quarter of the lives lost worldwide in recent weeks, the crisis has been likened to a raging inferno Henrique Aguiar originally from Brazil has lived in Dublin for the past eight years working with an international pharma company. Picture: Moya Nolan Sun, 18 Apr, 2021 - 17:30 Liz Dunphy Brazil’s healthcare system is in crisis as the cou...