coronavirus

New York 12/02/21, 21:24

New York on Thursday, Dec. 2, reported five cases of Omicron variant positive events, which stem from people of different traces. One case was detected in Suffolk County on Long Island, and four others were recorded within New York City, Gov. Kathy Hochul (N.Y.-D) said at a news conference on Thursday, ...

News 11/28/21, 21:55

Omicron, the newly listed coronavirus variant of concern, is now present in Canada, officials said Sunday, Nov. 28. The strain was detected in two people arriving from Nigeria, the Ontario government said in a statement, according to Fox News. The patients have been isolated. After emerging in Southern Africa last week, Omicron ...

World 11/06/21, 15:21

The family of a female journalist in China is urging for her immediate release as she is on the verge of death after more than a year imprisoned for covering the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Former lawyer Zhang Zhan, 38, was detained and sentenced to four years behind bars last year ...

News 09/10/21, 21:46

Due to the mayor's new COVID vaccination mandate, Seattle police officers may lose their employment. More than 200 officers have either refused to get vaccinated or have refused to provide their private medical data, according to Seattle's Jason Rantz radio show on Monday Sept. 6 Since last year's campaign to defund ...

News 09/08/21, 04:17

The mu variant of COVID-19 has surfaced in all states in the U.S. except for Nebraska. There have been 384 mu variant cases reported in California, with 167 of them in Los Angeles County. Florida has the second-highest mu cases at 305, reports the Washington Examiner. Alaska had the most mu instances ...

News 09/04/21, 00:19

On the first day of September, Japan reported the arrival of the Mu COVID-19 strain in its country.   The Mu variant, also known as B.1.621, was categorized into the World Health Organization (WHO)’s list of “variants of interest” on Aug. 30. Japan’s health ministry announced there were two patients infected with the ...

News 09/02/21, 20:37

The World Health Organization (WHO) has included another CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus or COVID-19 variant on its list of "variants of interest," with changes that could render it vaccine-resistant. After being discovered in 39 countries and found to have a cluster of alterations that may enable it less sensitive to ...

News 08/20/21, 21:31

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data on Wednesday Aug. 18, warning of a "significant decline" in vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection in nursing home residents, as the virus's highly contagious Delta variant causes an increase in hospitalizations among Americans. The announcement came as the Biden administration ...

News 08/14/21, 05:59

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) on Friday, August 13, announced that hospitals in the state would have up to 1,500 National Guardsmen deployed to aid with the new COVID-19 caseload.  According to Brown, in the morning of Friday, the state had recorded 733 hospitalized Oregonians due to severe illnesses caused by ...

News 08/07/21, 15:42

The COVID-19 pandemic updates on Thursday, August 5, revealed a grim reality for the new Delta variant-driven pandemic in the U.S. In total, 109,824 new virus cases were reported, with a seven-day rolling average of 98,518. It appeared that the country is suffering from a daily average of 100,000, a worrisome ...

News 08/07/21, 00:12

On Tuesday Aug. 3, Acting Mayor Kim Janey blunder when she linked restaurant mandated vaccination policy to slavery and Donald Trump's birtherism. She subsequently said during a news conference that she regretted the comparisons she used. When asked about Mayor Bill de Blasio's mandate requiring proof of vaccination to enter indoor ...

News 08/06/21, 18:47

 Johnson & Johnson (J&J), on Friday, August 6, confirmed that it is seeking emergency authorization in the Indian market for its single-dose vaccines against the CCP virus (COVID-19). If approved, the one-shot vaccines would be available to India and many others worldwide via Biological E Limited, an Indian pharmaceutical firm. "Biological E ...

News 08/06/21, 18:27

Conditions in Wuhan, the birthplace of the Chinese coronavirus have worsened to the point where official propaganda source the Global Times couldn't hide the current outbreak's "bombshell" devastation on Wednesday. It cited deserted streets, locals stockpiling food, and citywide lockdown measures. A countrywide outbreak of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus (Coronavirus) ...

U.S. 08/04/21, 19:56

China has slammed the United States probe into the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19), saying it is driven by political purposes. "The relevant report, totally based on the concocted lies and distorted facts without providing any evidence, is not credible or scientific," said the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson in a statement, according to ...

U.S. 08/04/21, 04:52

Mexico is prohibiting the U.S from sending illegal immigrant families back home at the onset of the current COVID-19 outbreak, just another step that threatens to aggravate the border surge. The Washington Examiner reports that the decision to prevent a large proportion of non-Mexican illegal families from returning to Mexico is likely to ...

Australia & Oceania 08/04/21, 04:30

Elderly man arrested in a Queensland park for not wearing a mask (he was exempt), he then suffers a heart attack. Are they trying to kill people with their terror?” tweet by a Twitter user Australia police arrested and handcuffed an old man for not wearing a mask in a wide-open ...

Washington 08/04/21, 02:36

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, August 3, told Republican leaders in Florida and Texas to cooperate with the efforts to withstand COVID-19 or “get out of the way.” "Just two states, Florida and Texas, account for one-third of all new COVID-19 cases in the entire country. Just two states," Biden ...

D.C. 08/02/21, 07:01

Rep. Cori Bush spent the night outside the Capitol to protest the end of the nationwide eviction moratorium imposed in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.Bush stayed outside the Capitol on Saturday afternoon, asking an Instagram audience to join her in demanding that the moratorium be extended by Congress, President ...

News 08/02/21, 05:25

The probe led by GOP members into the Wuhan lab is suspecting that Wuhan experts may have genetically modified the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, backing the lab-leak theory. Republicans on the Foreign Affairs Committee alleged that they detected highly suspicious behavior with the Chinese government and the Wuhan Institute ...

U.S. 08/01/21, 00:31

Two hospitals in Louisiana are running short on available ICU beds as COVID-19 cases keep on escalating in the state. KATC ABC 3 reported on Friday, July 30, that the Intensive care units in both Our Lady of Lourdes and Oschner Lafayette General hospitals had been depleted, with the former having ...