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A group of German scientists claims to have found the cause of the rare blood clots linked to the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines – and they say the jabs could be altered to prevent the problem The research, led by Professor Rolf Marschalek from Goethe University, in …

Facebook says it will no longer remove claims that Covid-19 is man-made or manufactured from its apps. The change comes “in light of ongoing investigations into the origin of Covid-19 and in consultation with public health experts,” Facebook says. The company based in Menlo Park, California, has long battled a …

Australia’s second-most populous state of Victoria will enter a one-week COVID-19 lockdown forcing its near seven million residents to remain home except for essential business as authorities struggle to contain a highly infectious outbreak. “We’re dealing with a highly infectious strain of the virus, a variant of concern, which is …

Joe Biden says the US will press China to participate in a ‘full and transparent’ investigation into coronavirus origins. United States President Joe Biden has instructed US spy agencies to review classified information about the origins of the coronavirus, including whether it came from contact between humans and animals, or …

The Ministry of Health and Environment announced today, Wednesday, the daily epidemiological situation of the Coronavirus pandemic throughout the country. The ministry stated, in a statement received by Alghadeer News, that it had “recorded 4,718 new cases of Coronavirus, while 3,249 people had recovered.” The statement added, “The new deaths …

Turkey welcomed 790,687 foreign visitors in April, down from a month earlier and only a quarter of the arrivals in 2019 before the pandemic hit, according to official data on Monday that suggested the tourism season may get off to a tough start. A coronavirus spike last month and a …

The European Commission is suing AstraZeneca in a bid to force the drug giant to deliver 90 million more doses of its coronavirus vaccine before July. EU lawyers asked Belgian judges to fine the Anglo-Swedish pharma giant AstraZeneca millions of euros on Wednesday, as a long-running row over the supply …

China has slammed the US for “spreading conspiracy theories and disinformation” following Washington’s latest push to wage a new probe into the origins of the coronavirus, even after a recent World Health Organization (WHO) mission to China proved inconclusive. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian once again accused Washington on …

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be effective in adolescents aged 12-17 and showed no new or major safety problems in a clinical trial, the developer said on Tuesday, potentially setting the stage for a second vaccine for school-aged children to be authorized in July. Moderna Inc, whose vaccine is …

The official coronavirus death toll in India has passed 300,000 as a devastating surge of new infections appears to be easing in big cities India crossed another grim milestone Monday with more than 300,000 people lost to the coronavirus, while a devastating surge of infections appeared to be easing in …

Algeria will impose strict health measures on passengers when it partially resumes international flights next month, the prime minister’s office said on Monday. The North African country last week said it would reopen air borders on June 1, but with only five flights a day from and to three local …

The COVID-19 pandemic is being prolonged by a “scandalous inequity” in which wealthy countries are vaccinating children and other low-risk groups at the expense of frontline health workers in poorer countries, the head of the World Health Organization has warned. “There is no diplomatic way to say it: a small …

Ministry of Health and Environment – MOH detected on Monday, 4102 new cases of COVID-19. This came in a statement by MOH to Alghadeer News. “4769 recovered cases were also detected among all the provinces of the country,” the statement included. 24 death cases were also recorded where 17505 are …

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, citing a US intelligence report. The newspaper said the previously undisclosed report – which provides fresh details on the number …

Sun loungers are out, beach bars are open and rave music is pumping. Hotels and restaurants are greeting visitors hoping to get a head start on summer after more than a year of coronavirus lockdowns and travel restrictions. Croatia has widely reopened its stunning Adriatic coastline for foreign tourists, becoming …

Australia expects to receive 2 million doses a week of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine from October, Minister for Health Greg Hunt told the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) on Sunday. Australia has ordered 40 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, which Canberra intends to use to inoculate its population under the age …

The Ministry of Health announced the registration of (3791) new cases of Coronavirus, (5039) recoveries, and (32) deaths, across all regions of Iraq, during the past twenty-four hours. It indicated that (527,159) people had received the vaccine so far.

Current COVID-19 shots provide a high level of protection against hospitalization and death, according to a summary of the efficacy of eight vaccines that showed the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE jab may better at stopping at least two worrisome coronavirus variants. Efficacy against COVID-linked disease averaged about 85 percent after a …

Ministry of Health and Environment – MOH detected on Monday, 3655 new cases of COVID-19. This came in a statement by MOH: “4778 recovered cases were also detected among all the provinces of the country,” the statement included. 21 death cases were also recorded where 520491 are vaccinated.

The death toll from COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean passed 1 million people on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic worsening in the part of the world with the highest per capita death rate. From the dusty highlands of Bolivia to the Brazilian metropolis of …