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Scientists say a more widely applicable shot could protect against pathogen that combines Covid-19 and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
'The two beasts of the jungle, the respiratory jungle, flu and Covid, they can be gripped I think by this new technology '
SHARE More than 20.5 million years of life have been lost around the world since the Covid-19 outbreak began, a study has shown. The report, based on data from 81 countries, lays bare the devastating loss caused by the pandemic and estimated that an average of 16 years of life have been lost from each death from Covid-19. While highlighting the scale of the pandemic , the study may underestimate years of life lost (YLL) – calculated by comparing a person’s age at death with their expected lifespan – because it uses figures from early January and excludes dozens of nations. Published...
New variations of the virus are plunging already reeling countries into fresh lockdowns Nurses talk in front of the 28 de Agosto Hospital in Manaus, Amazon State, Brazil. AFP A healthcare worker uses a pipette to process Covid-19 test samples at the SpiceHealth Genome Sequencing Laboratory set up at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India. Bloomberg A health worker prepares an injection with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Hospital Infantil in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Reuters An undertaker sprays disinfectant liquid around the grave of a person that pas...