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Alma Hernandez said she had taken both doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine 11 weeks ago. Even then, she continued to take all precautions, wearing a mask, washing her hands, and practicing social distancing. “Yet despite those measures and being vaccinated I have come down with the Covid,” the lawmaker from …

Cuomo’s aides “repeatedly” overruled the Department of Health over at least five months, the New York Times claimed on Wednesday, calling it a “sustained effort” to “obscure the pandemic death toll” and citing “interviews and newly unearthed documents” as evidence. A scientific paper showing the true death toll was never …

A small study claiming that “residual anxiety” over coronavirus may lead people to encounter difficulties reintegrating into society, even after the decline of the virus, has been widely reported this week. The authors, who surveyed 300 individuals in the UK, claim that people are increasingly experiencing what they call “Covid …

The new guidance, issued on Tuesday by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), follows in the footsteps of the CDC’s previous mask-based health advice. Those initially argued that healthy individuals and those who were not wearing a mask should avoid everyone else. Announcing the supposedly upbeat news, CDC director …

The South American country is in desperate need of Covid-19 vaccine doses, and has been one of the hardest-hit nations throughout the pandemic. However, despite requests from Brazilian politicians, regulator Anvisa believes there is a lack of documentation to guarantee its safety, and data about its efficacy is “uncertain.” After …

Soldiers “will go to every corner of Pakistan to ensure the protection of citizens,” military spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar told reporters on Monday, adding that the primary purpose of the deployment “is to help civil institutions and law enforcement agencies.” In this testing time, Pakistan Army will use all …

In the tweet on Monday, Stella Kyriakides, the European commissioner for health and food safety, said that every vaccine counts in their efforts to save people against the deadly Covid-19 virus. “Our priority is to ensure #COVID19 vaccine deliveries take place to protect the health of [Europeans]. This is why …

The statistics, showing how many recipients were infected with Covid-19 or died from the virus following vaccination, were released on Sunday by Viktor Orban’s administration. It came as a response to the criticism surrounding the vaccination campaign, which the Orban government has labeled an “anti-vaccination” effort by leftist opponents. Notably, …

The National Police launched an investigation at the end of January after learning that an outbreak in a ‘well-known establishment’ in Manacor, a town on the island of Mallorca, may have been the result of an individual who tried to hide that he was infected. According to authorities, the 40-year-old …

Facing a vaccine shortage amid surging infections and a lack of timely oxygen supplies by some hospitals, India has urged the US to lift a ban on the export of key vaccine materials.  So far, however, New Delhi has seen its requests being stonewalled, with the US President Joe Biden …