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Biden still testing positive for COVID-19

Biden still testing positive for COVID-19

U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive again for COVID-19 on Wednesday, his physician Kevin O'Connor said in a memo released by the White House, adding that the test was taken after Biden finished a light workout. Biden continues …

Biden still testing positive for Covid-19

Biden still testing positive for Covid-19

U.S. President Joe Biden continues to test positive for Covid-19 and now has a bit of a "loose cough" as he experiences a rebound case of the virus, his doctor said. Dr. Kevin O'Connor said in a …

Russia sends test systems for monkeypox to Kazakhstan

Russia sends test systems for monkeypox to Kazakhstan

Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing sent the test systems for the detection of monkeypox to Kazakhstan, Armenia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, the agency’s press …

Bavarian Nordic in talks to expand monkeypox vaccine output

Bavarian Nordic in talks to expand monkeypox vaccine output

Bavarian Nordic, the Danish company behind the vaccine being used to try to stem a global outbreak of monkeypox, is in talks to potentially expand production capacity, its CEO said. The Copenhagen-based vaccine maker has a vaccine that …

Biden 'doing well' after testing positive for Covid

Biden 'doing well' after testing positive for Covid

Joe Biden, the oldest person ever to serve as president of the United States, has tested positive for Covid-19, is experiencing mild symptoms and will continue working but in isolation, the White House said on Thursday. …

Warning issued about symptom of new Covid strain

Warning issued about symptom of new Covid strain

An Irish professor has said that the latest strain of Covid-19 is beginning to throw up new symptoms that the public should be aware of. Luke O’Neill, a professor of biochemistry at Trinity College, warned the new BA.5 …

Iran: Sputnik V provides best protection against Covid-19

Iran: Sputnik V provides best protection against Covid-19

The Russian two-dose Sputnik V vaccine provides the best protection against coronavirus, the press service for the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said following a study of five different coronavirus vaccines conducted in Iran. …

WHO to reconvene monkeypox emergency meeting

WHO to reconvene monkeypox emergency meeting

With more than 6,000 cases worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) is set to reconvene a meeting to decide whether to declare the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency, the organization's highest level of alert, the organization …

France's and Italy's report new wave of COVID-19 infections

France's and Italy's report new wave of COVID-19 infections

France on Tuesday reported 206,554 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. The country's new health minister Francois Braun announced the figures to the French National Assembly during a hearing on the health vigilance COVID-19 …

Global COVID-19 cases surpass 550 mln

Global COVID-19 cases surpass 550 mln

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 550 million on Tuesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The global case count amounted to 550,055,230, with 6,340,167 deaths worldwide. The United States reported 87,886,885 …

Covid vaccines saved 20 mln lives in first year

Covid vaccines saved 20 mln lives in first year

Covid vaccines prevented nearly 20 million deaths in the first year after they were introduced, according to the first large modelling study on the topic released Friday. The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, is based …

WHO weighs declaring monkeypox global emergency

WHO weighs declaring monkeypox global emergency

The World Health Organization is weighing whether to declare monkeypox an international emergency - a decision that could come as early as Friday. A declaration could escalate the global response as cases rapidly rise in …

Polio found in UK for the first time in nearly 40 years

Polio found in UK for the first time in nearly 40 years

The virus that causes polio has been detected in a concerning number of sewage samples in London, health officials have said. The disease was common in the UK in the 1950s but was eliminated by 2003. The UK Health Security …

Biden says U.S. needs more funding for next pandemic

Biden says U.S. needs more funding for next pandemic

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the United States has enough COVID funding to get through at least this year but it needs more money to plan for the next pandemic. "We do need more money.  But we don’t just need …