Australia s Victoria state reports four COVID-19 cases, source unknown
FILE PHOTO: An essential worker walks past a Please Stay Home sign on the first day of a five-day lockdown implemented in the state of Victoria in response to a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Melbourne, Australia, February 13, 2021. REUTERS/Sandra Sanders reuters tickers
This content was published on May 24, 2021 - 07:57
May 24, 2021 - 07:57
By Renju Jose
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia s second most populous state of Victoria reported on Monday four new COVID-19 infections, all in the city of Melbourne, the first cases of community transmission in the state in nearly three months.
The new infections have raised alarm amid a slow take-up of vaccinations in Australia and as other countries in the region, including Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand, have seen cases increase into the hundreds or thousands in the past few weeks.
White House says cannot confirm report on COVID-19 origins, needs more information
FILE PHOTO: A health worker does a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test as people wait at a drive-through COVID-19 testing center in a local street, in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz reuters tickers
This content was published on May 24, 2021 - 17:51
May 24, 2021 - 17:51
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday the United States could not confirm a Wall Street Journal report on the origins of COVID-19 and needed more information.
Three researchers from China s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, a month before China reported the first cases of COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a U.S. intelligence report.
Casos muy inusuales de problemas cardíacos en adolescentes y jóvenes adultos vacunados contra el covid-19 fueron reportados esta semana por las autoridades sanitarias de Estados Unidos, sin que se haya establecido de momento un vínculo con la vacunación. Casos de miocarditis, una inflamación del músculo cardíaco, ocurrieron en personas que recibieron una vacuna de ARN mensajero como las desarrolladas por Pfizer/BioNTech o Moderna, registraron los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) de Estados Unidos. La mayoría de los casos parecen ser benignos , explicaron y aseguraron que se realiza un seguimiento a la situación. Han sido informados relativamente pocos casos, según los CDC, que no detallaron ni los nombres ni las edades exactas de las personas afectadas. Los episodios ocurrieron principalmente en adolescentes y jóvenes adultos , en los cuatro días siguientes a la inyección. Estas miocarditis, que ocurrieron con más frecuencia tras la segunda d
Haggling over anti-Covid jabs and mass events
About 16% of the population have been fully vaccinated against Covid in Switzerland so far, according to official data, but there are considerable regional differences. Keystone/Laurent Gillieron
New efforts are needed to convince elderly people in Switzerland to get vaccinated against Covid-19 according to a senior health expert.
This content was published on May 23, 2021 - 11:50
May 23, 2021 - 11:50
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Christoph Berger, the president of the Federal Commission for Vaccinations, said up to 35% of the 60 to 80-year-old people in some regions of the country had not got the jab.
“We have to readjust our strategy and communication to reach the elderly population,” Berger is quoted as saying in the
Protesters target governmentâs anti-Covid policy
The demonstration in Neuchâtel was the first by the Silent Protest movement in French-speaking Switzerland. Keystone/Valentin Flauraud
Opponents of the Swiss governmentsâ anti-Covid policy have staged another street protest.
This content was published on May 22, 2021 - 17:08
May 22, 2021 - 17:08
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About 5,000 people wearing white overalls marched silently in the town of Neuchâtel on Saturday, according to the Swiss news agency, Keystone-SDA.
They accused the government of infringing individual rights by imposing restrictions to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Most demonstrators refused to wear hygiene masks, but police stood by and did not intervene.