The head of the EU's disease control agency has warned that Covid-19 could last indefinitely even as global infections slowed by nearly half in the last month and vaccine rollouts gathered pace in parts of the world.
In an interview with the AFP news
Read more…The head of Guinea's health agency has said that the country was in the midst of an Ebola "epidemic situation" with seven cases confirmed in the West African nation, including three deaths.
"Very early this morning, the Conakry laboratory confirmed t
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AccuWeather meteorologists are tracking several winter storms across the United States this week amid what has become an "unbelievable” weather pattern. One of those storms has already unleashed icy precipitation that led to deadly traffic accidents
Read more…A small tornado struck a town on Turkey’s Aegean coast, leaving a path of destruction and injuring 16 people, officials and reports said Friday. The tornado touched down late on Thursday in the resort town of Cesme, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) west
Read more…A long-lasting ice storm that will impact a 1,200-mile-long stretch of the United States into Thursday night began across some central and southern portions of the country Tuesday night and early Wednesday. A pair of storms will unleash ice accumulat
Read more…Over a course of only five days, below-freezing temperatures across Chicago were cold enough to skew temperature data spanning the entire winter season to date, making the city's winter appear colder on paper than it has been in actuality -- and more
Read more…The Met Office says an overnight temperature of -23C (-9.4F) recorded in Scotland is the lowest in more than 25 years.
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Read more…A coronavirus vaccine being developed in Cambridge will aim to "take care of" future variants of the virus, according to its chief scientist.
Jonathan Heeney, Cambridge University professor and chief executive of Diosvax, said: "It isn't the first ou
Read more…Moscow is preparing for record snowfalls over the weekend, as weather experts predicted a record-breaking "snow apocalypse" in the Russian capital.
Top expert of the Fobos weather centre Yevgeny Tishkovets said that the snowstorm would strike the cit
Read more…Heavy snowfall and temperatures as low as -16.7C have led to warnings of "tough" driving conditions in parts of Scotland.
The Met Office has forecast of up to 20cm (8in) of snow in parts of central Scotland, where an amber weather warning is in pla
"A team of international experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 have all but dismissed a theory that the virus came from a laboratory."
"Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) mission, said it was "extremely unli
A polar vortex brought record-breaking cold temperatures to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada, with the bitter cold set to stay in the Prairies through much of this week, according to CBC.
Saskatchewan's Uranium City recorded the lowest te
Read more…World Health Organization's Special Envoy on Covid-19 David Nabarro has said there is currently a shortage of Covid-19 vaccines and it will stay like that for several months.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0207/1195573-covid19-world/
Read more…The Dutch government is to extend a night-time curfew intended to slow the spread of Covid-19 until 3 March, the country's justice minister said today.
The curfew, the first in the Netherlands since World War Two, sparked several days of riots from a
Read more…"The head of the World Health Organization said Monday the emergence of new COVID-19 variants has raised questions about whether or not existing vaccines will work, calling it “concerning news” that the vaccines developed so far may be less effective
Read more…A disruptive storm is dumping snow across parts of the interior South and up the Eastern Seaboard to round out the weekend — but it will not be a repeat of the blockbuster storm that shattered snowfall records across parts of the East in early Februa
Read more…The coldest air of the season coming to the northern Rockies will finally make it feel like winter for the area, following a very mild December and January.
After an early start to winter, many residents in the northern Rockies and northern Plains ha
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