The White House will announce on Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will drop its requirement that air passengers entering the US test negative for Covid-19, multiple American news outlets report. While the airline industry has lobbied aggressively for this move, the Biden administration says that …
Read More »FBI raids Covid testing company in fraud probe
The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a search of a Covid-19 testing company which has been accused of providing “inaccurate and deceptive” results and enriching its owners. The Illinois headquarters of the Center for Covid Control – which has received more than $124 million from the US government for its …
Read More »Elon Musk nears human testing of brain chip
Neuralink, the US neurotechnology firm co-founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, has begun recruiting key employees to run its clinical trials, signaling that it’s inching closer to starting human testing of its brain implants. The company has posted advertisements to hire a clinical trial director and a clinical trial coordinator. …
Read More »Millions told to stay home while mass Covid testing underway
All residents in Tianjin, China have been advised to not leave their homes until they receive a negative result in the latest city-wide testing for Covid. The decision comes after 20 cases were detected. China’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to Covid-19 is now being applied in the northern city of Tianjin, …
Read More »Mom brings child to Covid-testing site in car trunk
Texas police are looking for a high school English teacher after she allegedly locked her Covid-19 positive child in a car trunk to limit exposure on the way to a testing facility. An arrest warrant for felony child endangerment was issued for Sarah Beam, 42, on Friday after her 13-year-old …
Read More »Premier blasted for being ‘passive aggressive’ on testing
Queensland’s PCR testing requirement for Covid-19 causes long lines and increased the risks of infection, yet its head stubbornly refuses to switch to self-administered rapid tests, the top NSW official lamented. Brad Hazzard, the Health Minister of New South Wales (NSW), accused Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk of demonstrating “passive aggressive …
Read More »UK unveils new mask mandate and Covid testing rules, citing Omicron
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Read More »US testing ability to drop nukes on Russia – Moscow
Speaking after a meeting his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe, in Moscow on Tuesday, Sergey Shoigu said that there has been “a significant intensification of activity from US strategic bomber aviation near the borders of Russia.” According to him, “over the past month, around 30 missions have been flown near the borders …
Read More »‘Testing the same weapons’: North Korea denounces US ‘double standard’ after Washington condemns submarine missile test
“It is a clear double standard that the United States denounces us for developing and testing the same weapons system it already has or was developing, and that only adds suspicions to their sincerity after saying they have no hostility towards us,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted an …
Read More »Almost 200,000 Covid-19 testing kits recalled, due to ‘manufacturing issue’ that delivered FALSE positives
The Food and Drug Administration issued a notice on Tuesday alerting the public of “the potential for false positive results” with certain lots of Ellume’s Covid-19 Home Test, a rapid antigen kit used to detect the coronavirus using nasal swabs and a smartphone app. “Negative results do not appear to …
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