Brazil, new ‘ground zero’ of the pandemic: deaths soar, resources are scarce …
With more than 300,000 deaths throughout the pandemic and a peak of 3,251 deaths in a single day last Tuesday, Brazil has become the world center of the pandemic. Its forecast, not at all...
Cuba, on the verge of famine
Havana is no more than a huge queue. This is how journalist Hector Lemieux begins his report for Le Figaro, in which he assures that Cuba, hard hit by the pandemic, has few means...
Bill Gates pinpoints date when we will be back to normal after the coronavirus
The predictions of Bill Gates, the magnate and co-founder of Microsoft, regarding the coronavirus pandemic, are always among the most listened to. The latest of them concerns the return to normality, a very recurrent...
Finland prepares for first confinement since start of pandemic
The Government of Finland has submitted Thursday a bill to Parliament to restrict freedom of movement, contacts and make mandatory the use of masks for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus...
AstraZeneca downgrades the effectiveness of its vaccine to 76% after the U.S. questioned the...
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Wednesday downgraded the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine from 79% to 76% in an updated U.S. study after U.S. authorities urged it to revise the initial data.
The results, very similar...
Nearly 30 million AstraZeneca vaccines hidden and destined for the United Kingdom were traced...
Italian authorities have located in a warehouse in Italy some 29 million doses of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, allegedly prepared for export to the United Kingdom, according to the newspaper...
Suez Canal collapsed: one of the world’s largest cargo ships runs aground, slowing down...
One of the world's largest cargo ships ran aground in the Suez Canal on Tuesday morning, blocking traffic through this key Egyptian shipping lane.
The MV Ever Given is considered one of the world's largest...
British variant of coronavirus also affects dogs and cats
A group of researchers claims that domestic animals, such as dogs and cats, can also be infected by coronaviruses, although they are studying whether the British variant (B.1.1.7) can infect some animals more easily.
In...
Scotland publishes draft bill to hold new independence referendum
The Scottish Government has published on Monday a draft bill to hold a second independence referendum, with a promise to hold the vote "when the public health crisis is over".
The Scottish National Party (SNP)...
Biden’s “call effect” triggers first immigration crisis at Mexico border
Democrats treated Donald Trump's immigration policies as paranoid, supremacist and xenophobic. They were horrified by the trickster rhetoric, those straw man appeals, the wall stories, the insults. But the situation has not improved. On...
