“The health and safety of our athletes, coaches, and staff is our top priority. We are saddened to confirm that Sam Kendricks tested positive for Covid-19 and will not compete in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020,” the US Olympic Committee confirmed in a tweet on Wednesday night, adding that the …
Read More »3 athletes test positive for Covid-19 in Tokyo just days before games, 2 of them diagnosed in Olympic Village
Out of the infected athletes, two tested positive in the Olympic Village, the Japan Times reported on Sunday, citing officials. Five Olympic Games staff members, a contract worker and a journalist also tested positive on Sunday. The news comes after a South Korean member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), …
Read More »3 Texas Democrats who fled Texas for DC to protest voting bill test positive for Covid-19
Texas House Democratic Caucus Leadership announced that one of their members found out they tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday evening, and two others received positive tests on Saturday. They will now be required to isolate for 10 days and then be retested. All of those infected have been vaccinated. …
Read More »British health secretary Javid tests positive for Covid-19, says he’s glad he was vaccinated
The news came from the health secretary himself in a video statement which he tweeted out on Saturday. Javid, who took office three weeks ago after the ignominious resignation of Matt Hancock over a scandal involving his female aide, said he decided to take a test after feeling “groggy” on …
Read More »Ahead of Putin-Biden summit, Kremlin welcomes ‘positive’ American rhetoric, but says talk of ‘containing’ Moscow still an issue
That’s according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who spoke to Russian TV on Wednesday morning before the first-ever summit between the two leaders. “Clear signals were sent to Moscow on the eve of the US-Russian talks. The rhetoric was in favor of the need for dialogue, which is undeniably positive,” …
Read More »‘You’re not in the clear with vaccines’: US lawmaker says she’s Covid-positive after 2 doses of Pfizer
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 …
Read More »Argentine president tests positive for Covid-19 after Russia’s Sputnik V shot, but researchers say he will recover swiftly
President Fernandez “performed an antigen test which was positive,” and has been awaiting further confirmation of his state of health having had a PCR test, he wrote on Twitter on Saturday. Fernandez, who turned 62 just a day before, said he had a “slight headache” and fever, but reassured the …
Read More »Pakistani leader Imran Khan quarantined at home after testing positive for Covid-19
The special assistant to the prime minister on National Health Services, Faisal Sultan, said that Khan is self-isolating at home. The diagnosis was later confirmed by the Prime Minister’s Office. The news comes just two days after Khan publicly received a vaccine developed by the Chinese firm Sinopharm. A senator …
Read More »14 German care home residents test positive for UK Covid-19 strain after getting 2nd Pfizer jab
The first positive Covid-19 cases in the care home in the town of Belm, near Osnabrueck, were discovered on February 2 following routine daily rapid testing, the local authorities said in a statement. The care home administration then tested all the facility residents and employees to discover that a total …
Read More »7 die at Spanish care home after getting Pfizer Covid-19 jab as ALL residents test positive for virus, second doses still to come
Most of those who succumbed to the virus had existing conditions, according to Spanish news agency EFE, while four residents are currently hospitalized, and 12 staff have also been infected. The huge outbreak is at the Lagartera Residence for the Elderly in the Toledo area, southwest of the capital Madrid. …
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