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Showing posts with label Covid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Covid. Show all posts

December 11, 2021

The Dutch style of government: good for dykes, bad for covid

The Netherlands has not decided yet if it will join a U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Knapen said on Tuesday.

Read more at: Netherlands undecided on diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics -government | Reuters

January 15, 2021

Covid - will vaccinations work with different variants of Covid: How worrying are the UK, South Africa, and Brazil coronavirus variants? - by Michelle Roberts

New variants of coronavirus are emerging that are more infectious than the original one that started the pandemic.

Scientists are urgently studying these mutated versions to understand what threat they pose.

The current vaccines were designed around earlier variants, but scientists are confident that they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well.

Lab studies are underway to check this.

Vaccines train the body to attack several parts of the virus, however, not just these sections of the spike protein.

Variants could emerge in the future that are more different again.

Read more: .Covid: How worrying are the UK, South Africa, and Brazil coronavirus variants? - BBC News

December 28, 2020

EU: France may impose third national lockdown if Covid cases continue to rise

France has not ruled out imposing a third nationwide lockdown if coronavirus cases continue to rise, its health minister said Sunday, as the country braces for a possible post-Christmas spike.

We will never exclude measures that are necessary to protect the public," Olivier Veran told the Journal du Dimanche.

Read more at: France may impose third national lockdown if Covid cases continue to rise