The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) confirmed on Wednesday that it would send a team to Wuhan, China, in January to investigate the origins of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – eight months after the Communist Party of China admitted it had destroyed all the evidence it had collected there.
Veteran actor Sir Ian McKellen claims he is feeling “euphoric” after becoming one of the first people in the world to receive the new Pfizer vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus.
Despite controversy in other countries over the possibility of creating a two-tier society where those with vaccination papers have more freedoms than those without, Ireland is considering coronavirus passports, allowing bearers to escape lockdown.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark is shutting down nationwide, with shopping malls and department stores ordered to close as of Wednesday and small shops – except for food stores and pharmacies – told to shut as of Dec. 25.
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for coronavirus, the Elysée Palace has confirmed.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf says he believes his country has failed to protect the elderly in care homes from the effects of the pandemic.
Estimations of how long it could take to vaccinate the entire United Kingdom against the Chinese coronavirus keep getting longer, after the National Audit Office said that even by the end of 2021, only half of the population would be covered.
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group, a Chinese pharmaceutical group, announced Wednesday it had inked a deal with German company BioNTech to purchase 100 million doses of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine it had developed with American company Pfizer — the first vaccine approved for use in the United States.
The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa), which approves pharmaceutical drugs for use, accused the government of China on Monday of being “not transparent” in its development of its primary Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate.
London mayor Sadiq Khan is calling on the government to force the public to wear masks in public and shut down secondary schools.
The teams behind Britain’s Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine will join forces to see if their coronavirus prophylactics work better in combination.
NHS Charities Together has raised eyebrows with a disturbing advert showing Santa Claus in hospital struggling to breathe with Covid-like symptoms.
BERLIN (AP) — Calls grew Friday for tougher lockdown measures soon in Germany as the country’s disease control centre reported record daily increases in both coronavirus cases and deaths.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has called Wales’s left-wing first minister a “maniac” for blaming his own countrymen for the rise in coronavirus numbers, despite the Celtic country having some of the strictest lockdown laws of all of the United Kingdom’s home nations.
The Chinese state newspaper Global Times declared Thursday that America was “among the top” nations that experienced a significant decline in human rights in 2020, claiming that the federal government had not done enough to contain the Chinese coronavirus.
Tax enforcement agents have been writing to cancer patients and people left penniless by the pandemic and associated lockdowns threatening to seize their possessions and sell them, because the economic impact of coronavirus means the NHS needs more money.
Kay Burley, a top television news anchor, has been suspended from Sky News for six months after flouting lockdown rules during her 60th birthday party. Reports claim she will continue to receive full pay.
The left-wing Italian government has spent €1.57 billion on supplies from Chinese companies during the Wuhan virus pandemic.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that his government won’t rush approval of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine because he wants people to have confidence in the product.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused “evil” America on Wednesday of hurting Iran’s efforts to access foreign Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidates, calling into question the status of an alleged vaccine candidate in development by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The European Medicines Agency’s documents on the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have been hacked by cyber-attackers.
A woman identified in reports only as “Zhao” became the target of a mass persecution campaign online this week after the Chinese Communist Party announced that Chengdu, a city of 16 million people, would be going into “wartime mode” due to a Chinese coronavirus outbreak.
The global NGO Human Rights Watch accused the communist government of Cuba on Monday of abusing Chinese coronavirus guidelines to persecute, imprison, and silence pro-democracy dissidents.
A scientific group advising the British government has said that Chinese coronavirus immunity passports could be issued to those who have been vaccinated or have recovered from the virus.
Chinese state media on Wednesday claimed that a recently published U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study, which finds cases of Chinese coronavirus in the U.S. earlier than previously thought, but still later than the first Chinese cases, indicates that the pandemic may have originated in the U.S.
Charles Juma, a manager in the Kenyan government agency responsible for organizing medical supplies, told lawmakers that his boss received death threats from the “deep state” if he did not give Coronavirus supply contracts to companies owned by their friends, the Daily Nation reported on Tuesday.
Only four out of the 223 National Health Service (NHS) trusts in England are busier now than last year despite the Chinese coronavirus, according to an analysis of official data carried out by a British newspaper. Prime Minister Boris Johnsons
BRUSSELS (AP) – With nothing on their agendas for months to come, music festival organizers in Belgium want to use their know-how to help the country’s coronavirus vaccination campaign. The Belgian government has set a goal of vaccinating about 70%
English parents will be banned from attending school nativity plays this Christmas in so-called “tier 3” lockdown areas.
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) will launch a campaign fronted by “very sensible” celebrities to persuade people to take coronavirus vaccines, according to reports.
Britons should avoid gathering around the Monopoly board, singing with family members, or hugging loved ones during the Christmas season, the government’s scientific quango has warned.
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis raised 13 new cardinals to the highest rank in the Catholic hierarchy Saturday and immediately warned them not to use their titles for corrupt, personal gain, presiding over a ceremony marked from beginning to end
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the pub, the government has decided to effectively extend the lockdown that Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised faithfully would end on December 2nd.
Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona in Italy are reaching “community immunity” and are not suffering from a large “second wave” of the Chinese coronavirus, according to reports. Bergamo was the hardest-hit city in Italy earlier this year.
“Don’t forget your lockdown pass and your mask, so you aren’t fined.”
(AFP) — Biting new Chinese trade tariffs have stoked fears that Australia’s virus-weakened economy is being targeted for political retribution and the two countries may be sliding into a shadow trade war.
More government scientists have sought to frighten Britons over the prospect of getting too close to their loved ones at Christmas, including telling people that kissing their grandparents could deliver “a deadly dose” of coronavirus.
Lockdowns won’t end until anticipated vaccines “come to our aid” in the future and the country can expect a “hard winter”, the PM has said.
The global medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced on Tuesday that it would end operations in a hospital in a poor neighborhood in Petare, Venezuela, because the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro has refused to allow its specialists to enter the country.
The deputy health minister of Iran, Iraj Harirchi, said on Monday that the current Chinese coronavirus death rate in Iran could mean that as many as 200,000 people in the country are contracting the virus every day.
