The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has corrected its Covid-19 reporting, saying its previous estimate for the percentage of new cases caused by the Omicron variant was more than triple the actual figure. Only 22.5% of US Covid-19 infections recorded in the week that ended on December …
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Protesters gathered in Busan on Sunday after a similar rally was held in Seoul on Christmas Day. Aggrieved demonstrators held up large portraits of deceased family members – like those typically displayed at funerals in South Korea – and testified as to how their loved ones died soon after being …
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Moscow floated the notion last week of a legally binding treaty offering firm security guarantees that NATO would not expand any further east, or emplace offensive weapons in member countries bordering Russia. Putin informed Johnson in the phone call on Monday that Russia is preparing draft documents to that effect …
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On Saturday, a spokesperson for the Czech Ministry of Health announced that a woman returning from vacation in Egypt had tested positive for what is believed to be the novel variant of Covid. He added that the sample is being studied further, with official confirmation expected by Sunday morning. Coinciding …
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Researchers looked at over 600 people in the UK over the course of a year for the study, done by Imperial College London and the UK Health Security Agency (HSA) and published this week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. “Although vaccines remain highly effective at preventing severe disease and …
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“Risks are tilted to the downside, mainly because of uncertain pandemic dynamics, vaccine efficacy against virus variants, supply chain disruptions, and potential global financial spillovers from the US monetary normalization,” the IMF said, adding that “The global Covid-19 pandemic is still ravaging the region.” Nevertheless, Asia-Pacific will remain the fastest-growing …
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The ruling passed this week by the European Court of Justice (CJEU) is “wrong” and “an attempt to lend legitimacy to racism,” Fahrettin Altun, the communications director for the office of President Erdogan said on Twitter on Saturday. He said it was “unbelievable that fascism just spread to the courts” …
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The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Facebook can be held liable for the conduct of pimps and traffickers on its platform – a landmark decision that opens the firm up to further legal action from a trio of teenage trafficking victims. In the suit, filed in 2018, the …
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Looking at the impact of Covid-19 on terrorism, Europol officials highlighted the threat posed by individuals who are seeking to use the chaos caused by the pandemic to “erode democratic structures, spread fear and polarize society.” Throughout the year, 57 terrorist attacks were either completed, failed or foiled in EU …
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In a Sunday interview with Sky News, Hancock said the Indian variant is “becoming the dominant strain in some parts of the country,” such as Bolton and Blackburn, but early data gives the government “a degree of confidence that the vaccines work against” it. “We’re in a race between the …
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