Tag: COVID-19

• Thursday, July 23rd 2020 - 07:47 UTC

  Germany introduces strict measures in staff contracting for industrial abattoirs

  

  Germany is introducing a new law compelling meatpackers to employ staff directly in industrial abattoirs rather than sub-contracting to avert further coronavirus outbreaks exacerbated by poor working conditions, a draft law showed on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Oxford immunologist on coronavirus vaccine: our early results look highly promising

  

  By Rebecca Ashfiled (*) – A vaccine against COVID-19 is urgently needed if we’re to stop the virus spreading and prevent potentially millions of further deaths. We’re now one step closer to that goal.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 08:08 UTC

  Chinese made vaccine against coronavirus begins testing in Brazil, with first doses in volunteers

  

  A Chinese-made vaccine against the new COVID-19 entered the final stage of testing on Tuesday in Brazil, where volunteers received the first doses of what officials hope will be a game-changer in the pandemic.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  Bolsonaro waiting results from another Covid-19 test

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he took another COVID-19 test and the results were expected on Wednesday as he hopes for a negative result two weeks since falling ill.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 07:54 UTC

  Johnson holds his first face-to-face cabinet meeting since March 17

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was holding his first face-to-face Cabinet meeting of top ministers since Mar 17 on Tuesday, underlining his push to encourage others to go back to work and boost an economy hurt by the coronavirus crisis.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 06:52 UTC

  Paraguayan football resumes on Tuesday following a four month virus shutdown

  

  Paraguayan football resumed on Tuesday after a four-month coronavirus shutdown with Cerro Porteno beating league leaders Libertad 2-1 and River Plate drawing 1-1 with Nacional.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  River cruises on the Danube are making a quiet comeback

  

  River cruises are making a quiet comeback on the Danube after the COVID-19 pandemic brought global tourism to a standstill and forced companies to suspend voyages.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  Brazil death toll surpasses 80,000; WHO says outbreak has reached a plateau

  

  Brazil's coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000 on Monday, according to health ministry figures, as the country hit second-hardest in the world continued struggling to control the pandemic.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  “Using masks to defeat the Invisible Chinese virus is Patriotic”, says Trump, fifteen points behind Biden in the polls

  

  US President Donald Trump promised on Monday to resume televised coronavirus briefings and spoke out in favor of mask-wearing - a marked change of tune as polls show him headed for election disaster.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Two Brazilian ministers join Bolsonaro in testing positive for Covid-19

  

  Two more Brazilian government ministers said on Monday they had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, underscoring a struggle to limit the world's second-worst outbreak even among the political elite.