Tag Archives: COVID-19

The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment announced, on Tuesday, that almost 3784 Covid-10 patients achieved full recovery, which is the highest recovery case count since the beginning outbreak in the country. The number of recoveries worldwide has reached 50782.

As the race to find a novel coronavirus vaccine continues across the globe, Russia has reportedly become the first country to complete clinical trials of a vaccine candidate, with the potential to be distributed from around mid-August. A vaccine could be rolled out across the U.K. by the first half …

Covid-19: 2229 new cases and 2274 recoveries in Iraq today The Iraqi Ministry of Health and environment registered today, Monday, 2229 new cases, 2274 recoveries and 100 fatalities of Covid-19. In a statement received by AlghderTv, the ministry said that 15380 tests were performed today, raising the total number performed …

The number of infections with the novel coronavirus has surpassed 13 million worldwide with the deaths exceeding 571,000 and recoveries over 7.58 million, according to Worldometer figures. According to the latest figures on Monday morning (+3:00 GMT), 13,069,861 people have so far been infected with the novel coronavirus globally, with …

A Russian research center says it has successfully completed the clinical trials of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on humans, and scientists in China and Thailand are also racing to start new phases in developing their own potential vaccines for COVID-19. There are no approved vaccines for the disease from …

Confronted by surging hospitalizations due to COVID-19, South Africa is considering a return to tighter restrictions to combat the disease, which officials say may soon overwhelm the country’s health system. President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced he will speak to the nation about the crisis on Sunday evening after top health …

Denmark has launched what is thought to be the first Covid-19 passport in Europe for use when traveling abroad and domestically. Citizens there can download the official document if they have tested negative for the illness within the last seven days. The innovation is different from the more controversial immunity …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health and environment registered today, Sunday, 2312 new cases, 1645 recoveries and 95 fatalities of Covid-19. The ministry said in a statement received by AlghdeerTv, that 11154 tests were performed today, raising the total number of performed since the beginning of the outbreak in the country …

Enough coronavirus vaccine doses for everyone in UK ‘in first half of next year’ if trials succeed, research chief says Enough vaccine doses are being made for everybody in the UK in “the first half of next year”, says the head of the team at Imperial College – if trials …

A coronavirus research lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city where Covid-19 first emerged, will not be visited by World Health Organisation investigators looking into the origins of the pandemic. WHO is sending a mission to Wuhan, in Hubei province, but has said investigators will be there only to “advance the …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health announced today, Sunday, the arrival of a plane loaded with 15 tons of preventive medical supplies and an ambulance provided by the Republic of Hungary to aid Iraq in the battle against Covid-19 pandemic. The technical undersecretary of the Ministry Hazem Al-Jamili said that the …

US President Donald Trump, who has avoided wearing a mask in public even as the coronavirus pandemic spread, donned one on Saturday at a military medical facility outside Washington where he was to meet with wounded soldiers and front-line health-care workers. The visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center …

Iraq registered, on Tuesday, 2734 new cases and of Covid-19, as well as about 1700 recoveries in the past 24 hours. The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said in a statement that, tests were performed today, so the total number of tests is 10377, in which the total performed …

The World Health Organization has expanded its coronavirus guidance to include the possibility in certain circumstances of airborne transmission, in which the virus could be spread through tiny droplets that linger in the air. The update came Thursday after an open letter signed by more than 200 scientists pressed the …

Angela Merkel may not scream down the phone at President Donald Trump — but she knows how to insert a dagger. Trump, as well as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, must have felt his ears burning when the German Chancellor demolished their approaches to the coronavirus in a …

China’s embassy has warned its citizens of strange pneumonia more deadly than coronavirus spreading in the former Soviet republic. A leading health chief thinks there could be issues around testing for COVID-19. An unexplained pneumonia outbreak in Kazakhstan is likely to be the novel coronavirus, a World Health Organization (WHO) …

Iraq registered, on Tuesday, 2848 new cases and 78 fatalities of Covid-19, as well as 1878 recoveries in the past 24 hours. The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said in a statement that, tests were performed today, so the total number of tests is 589377. The newly diagnosed cases …

Gilead Sciences, Inc., said on Friday additional data from a late-stage study showed its antiviral remdesivir significantly improved clinical recovery in severely ill COVID-19 patients. Findings from an analysis of its late-stage study showed that 74.4 percent of remdesivir-treated patients recovered by day 14 versus 59 percent of patients receiving …

Donald Trump has used an interview with Fox News ally Sean Hannity to attempt to pin the blame for the resurgent coronavirus on Dr Anthony Fauci, who he said is “a nice man but he’s made a lot of mistakes”, although it was the president himself who disregarded medical advice …

With an unprecedented new surge in coronavirus cases battering Israel’s economy, one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants was dispatched to a TV studio recently to calm the nerves of a jittery nation. Instead, he dismissed expressions of some of the public’s economic pain as “BS.” The flippant comment …