Coronavirus

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Health Ministry issues recommendation for Moderna COVID vaccine

Health Ministry recommends getting Moderna’s new Corona substrains’ vaccine as previous ones have lost much of their protective value

Arbel at UN: We must prepare to prevent next pandemic

Prior to address, he met his Moroccan counterpart to discuss preventing and treating epidemics

WHO pushes China to help reveal the truth on the origins of COVID

The WHO chief's comments come as health authorities and pharmaceutical companies across the world have been racing to update vaccines to combat newer emerging coronavirus variants.

By REUTERS
17/09/2023

Boy's eye color changes to blue after corona treatment

Six-month-old Japanese boy experiences rare side effect of corona treatment, with eyes turning blue.

By WALLA!
12/09/2023

COVID is back, and its hosts are unwittingly letting it mutate inside them - comment

The recent increase in COVID cases should not be a cause for concern for the average Israeli – at least not yet.

Israel sees 30% spike in daily COVID cases, Health Ministry says

However, the number of hospitalized patients has decreased in recent days.

04/09/2023
 COVID-19 models (illustrative)

Israel's COVID chief: New variant has more than 30 mutations

Inside Israeli Innovation with Maayan Hoffman and Zachy Hennessey, Ep. 19

Are mask mandates making a return? The new variant has public health institutions worried

BA.2.86 may be more capable of causing infection in people who were previously infected with COVID-19 or received the COVID-19 vaccine.

Birds living at UCLA were less afraid of humans after lockdown - study

Research from Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev looked into how the birds at the UCLA campus have changed following the COVID-19 lockdown.

CDC 'tracking' new highly-mutated COVID virus found in Israel

The WHO said that, so far, only a few sequences of the variant named BA.2.86 have been reported from a handful of countries.

By REUTERS
18/08/2023
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