On Monday, the Directorate General of Health (DGS) said in a press release that a new Covid-19 variant was being investigated after genomic sequencing confirmed the existence of 8 cases at a single hospital, where the new strain had been identified but had initially not shown up after PCR tests. …
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Speaking on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was an “inherently difficult challenge” in balancing people’s desire to protest and share their grievances with the need to control the pandemic. “The thorny issue is how we allow peaceful protest expressing our concern with something as terrible as the Sarah …
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Covid Freedom Index Even as billions are set to acquire immunity to the virus in 2021 – either through vaccination or antibodies gained following a course of the illness – there has been little letup in crisis rhetoric, with those in power often advocating restrictive measures that go far beyond …
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The precautionary decision to suspend use of the vaccine until at least March 28 was based on new information from Norway and Denmark regarding potentially serious side effects in people who received the inoculation, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said on Sunday. “We can’t allow any doubts about the …
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The misuse of coronavirus aid to finance terrorist activities was reported by German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. “In individual cases there is a suspicion of direct terrorism financing,” a source within Berlin law enforcement told the newspaper. According to the report, law enforcement in Germany’s capital is currently conducting over …
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Timing, they say, is everything. No sooner had UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres chastised the world’s wealthiest nations (without naming names) for failing the “greatest moral test of our times” by not ensuring equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines than President Joe Biden stepped to the podium and put his foot in …
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The admission was made by Timmermans in an interview with German daily Der Tagesspiegel, published on Sunday. It is too early to draw any conclusions, though, and currently the priority is to ensure that “all of Europe gets vaccines,” the official stressed. “I am ready to take stock at the …
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According to the agency, “There were 5.7 million fewer people in employment in the EU by spring 2020 than at the end of 2019,” with the jobless rate across the 27-nation bloc increasing from 6.6 percent to 6.7 percent over the same period. In the 12 months leading up to …
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As Germans prepare to go to the polls in two bellwether state elections this Sunday, a wave of corruption and stagnation threatens to overwhelm Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats – and when it recedes the party that has dominated the country’s government over the last 70 years could be out …
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Watching Biden speak on Thursday evening was slightly surreal, as the main points of his address were already leaked to the press beforehand. Ordering all states to make every adult American eligible for the vaccine by May 1? So much for following the ‘science’, defined as obeying the Centers for …
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