Array Collective, a Belfast-based activist group have won the prestigious Turner Prize 2021, after they beat four other collectives to take the £25, 000 prize money. Their works, a mock Irish pub adorned in banners supporting reproductive rights and protesting against conversion therapy. The Judges praised the group for highlighting social and political issues in…
UK approves pill to treat Covid
The UK Medicines regulator MHRA, became the first country in the world to approve the antiviral Lagevrio (Molnupiravir) , a pill designed for the most vulnerable and the immunosuppressed and to treat people who are ill with Covid. Molnupiravir will be given twice a day to vulnerable patients recently diagnosed with the disease with in five days. The clinical trials, the pill, originally developed to treat flu, nearly halved the risk of hospitalisation and death in people with mild to moderate Covid-19, obese and old age over 60 years, diabetes nellitus or heart disease. Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the treatment was a “Gamechanger”.
