Covid-19

A professor at Cornell, an Ivy League university in New York, is in hot water for sending out a mass email asking for help identifying maskless students (Pictures: Getty Images/Twitter Bruce Monger)A professor at Cornell…
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Is the COVID-19 vaccine safe for children? Yes, U.S. regulators authorized Pfizer’s vaccine for younger children after millions of 12- to 17-year-olds already safely got the shot, the only one available for children in the country.…
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With rapid antigen Covid-19 tests now available to buy in Australian retail stores including pharmacies and supermarkets like Coles and Woolworths, Guardian Australia…
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U.S. health officials on Tuesday gave the final signoff to Pfizer’s kid-size COVID-19 shot, a milestone that opens a major expansion of the nation’s vaccination campaign to children as young as 5. The Food and Drug Administration already…
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More Hong Kong-based expats are buying properties in their home countries or other overseas markets, boosting the number of transactions by 30 to 40 per cent this year, according to agents and bankers.If the trend holds, Hong Kong’s…
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Researchers compared data from Americans before the pandemic to those who had taken the Johnson & Johnson jab (Picture: Reuters)Americans who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine are 3.5 times more likely to…
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CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — As the pandemic continues, so do public mandates from Los Angeles to New York, as state and local leaders are putting in place new measures to protect residents from contracting or spreading COVID-19. But not…
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Ministers have launched a three-week TV advertising blitz to recruit care workers, as a new mandatory Covid vaccination law takes effect that some operators warn could force out a quarter of their staff.The campaign will run from Wednesday…
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An influential advisory panel on Tuesday recommended kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, putting the U.S. on the brink of a major expansion of vaccinations. A final decision was expected within hours.…
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This is the first part of a series on China’s zero-tolerance Covid-19 strategy. Here, Zhuang Pinghui looks at the road to herd immunity as more transmissible variants emerge and what that means for hopes of opening up.When Covid-19 vaccines…
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