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Employees of hospital in Lviv region go on hunger strike due to salary debts

Employees of Sosnovka city hospital of Chervonohrad district (Lviv region) have gone on a hunger strike in the workplace due to salary arrears, …
Interfax-Ukraine

Some 163,310 vaccinations against coronavirus made for day in Ukraine

Some 163,310 people were vaccinated against coronavirus during the day on August 12 in Ukraine, with 110,545 Ukrainians receiving the first …
Interfax-Ukraine

COVID-19 in Ukraine: 1,263 new cases, 44 new deaths, 163,310 new vaccinations

Ukraine has registered 1,263 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on Aug. 13, with the total number of cases in the country since the start of the …
Asami Terajima

Belarus plans to roll out domestic coronavirus vaccine in 2023

MINSK – Belarus plans to roll out a domestic coronavirus vaccine in 2023, Belarusian Health Minister Dmitry Pinevich said on Aug. 12. “We’re expecting …
Interfax-Ukraine

Diane Francis: Covidnomics

Pandemics upend societies and economies and the COVID crisis has been no less disruptive than others. The “Plague” or “Black Death” began in 1346 and …
Diane Francis

Georgia to impose several restrictions due to spike in COVID-19 infections

TBILISI – The Georgian government will impose a number of restrictions starting August 14, at the recommendation of the Coordination Council for …
Interfax-Ukraine

UkrInform: Deshchytsia, Kraska discuss possibility of entry of vaccinated Ukrainians into Poland

Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland Andrii Deshchytsia has met with Acting Minister of Health of Poland Waldemar Kraska, according to the …
UkrInform

UkrInform: Ministry officials recommend reducing interval between 2 doses of CoronaVac

The Ministry of Health has recommended that the interval between the first and second dose of Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac jab be reduced to a …
UkrInform

Reuters: Russia reports record-high 808 COVID-19 deaths

Russia on August 12 reported a record-high 808 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours and 21,932 new COVID-19 cases, including 2,294 in …
Reuters

COVID-19 in Ukraine: 1,247 new cases, 24 new deaths, 162,049 new vaccinations

Ukraine has registered 1,247 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on Aug. 12, with the total number of cases in the country since the start of the …
Asami Terajima

New York Times: What to know about breakthrough infections and the Delta variant

Citing new evidence that vaccinated Americans with so-called breakthrough infections can carry as much coronavirus as unvaccinated people do, the …
New York Times

The Guardian: Nurse in Germany suspected of replacing COVID vaccines with saline solution

Authorities in northern Germany have appealed to thousands of people to get another shot of COVID vaccine after a police investigation found that a …
The Guardian

Euronews: This golden retriever is beating PCR tests at detecting COVID

Pokaa the golden retriever is a quick study and is already delivering impressive results sniffing out coronavirus. Read more here.
Euronews

Washington Post: Millions of coronavirus vaccine doses around the world face expiration

For months, a refrigerator at a government facility in the Dutch university town of Leiden has housed 90 or so small white boxes that contain …
Washington Post

New York Times: Inside the White House-Facebook rift over vaccine misinformation

WASHINGTON — In March, Andy Slavitt, then a top pandemic adviser for President Biden, called Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs, …
New York Times

The Guardian: Delta variant renders herd immunity from COVID ‘mythical’

Reaching herd immunity is “not a possibility” with the current Delta variant, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said. Read more here.
The Guardian

Parliament extends adaptive quarantine until Oct. 1

The Cabinet of Ministers decided to extend Ukraine’s current adaptive quarantine until Oct. 1 because of the rising number of COVID-19 …
Kvitka Perehinets

UkrInform: Shmyhal says number of oxygen-supplied beds makes up almost 100%

Almost 100% of COVID beds in Ukraine are supplied with oxygen, and 15,000 oxygen concentrators have been purchased for outpatient treatment. Read more …
UkrInform
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