Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer and Chinese citizen journalist who covered Wuhan’s coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years. She was found guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, a frequent charge against activists. The former 37-year-old lawyer was detained in May and has been on hunger strike for several months. Chinese authorities are…
Earlier this year the Grenfell Tower inquiry has heard more than 400 hours of evidence form 53 witnesses, Including staff from Celotex which made the majority of the insulation say they behaved unethically, dishonestly and the company lied for commercial gain while getting the product approved for use on high-rise buildings, the company which hid…
France will stop lorry movements from the UK for 48 hours amid fresh concerns over the spread of a new strain of coronavirus in the UK, although freight from France to the UK will be allowed, but fears that lorry drivers will not travel to avoid being stuck in the UK. The Port of Dover…
London, Hertfordshire, and Essex moving to tier-3 -England’s highest tier of coronavirus restrictions will come into place from Wednesday 00:01Hrs MPs have been told by Health secretary Matt Hancock. A new variant of coronavirus identified, and it may be associated with a faster spread in the south of England, Matt Hancock, UK Health Secretary. These tier-3…
The Pandemic has touched every aspect of life bringing death, disease, isolation, joblessness, fear, grief, and despair amid deepening social and economic unequalness. Globalisation is under pressure from nationalism, as countries have closed borders, hoarded PPE and bartered over vaccine. As geopolitical alliances are being reshaped, the US seems in disorder, China appears invigorated. The…
Zoologist and a vaccine pioneer Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, a Russian Jew who had trained in Odessa and developed his skills in Paris, in search of cholera at a time when the world of international bacteriology was factional and prone to suspicion. He created the world’s first vaccines for cholera and plague, but an accidental…
The UK’s world-first Covid-19 vaccine rollout is facing problems for two people with serious allergies to medicines or food, within 24 hours. Two unnamed healthcare workers who have a significant history of an allergic reaction are recovering following the first day of the mass vaccination programme, as it is understood in the US vaccine trial…
Ninety-year-old Margaret Keenan known as Maggie is UK’s first vaccine recipient said she feels “so privileged” to receive the jab as the UK begins the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history. The UK is the first country in the world to start using the Pfizer vaccine after regulators approved its use last week. Globally 68million…
Dr. Onyema Ogbuagu, the Nigerian doctor who led Pfizer’s study for the Coronavirus vaccine in the United States, is also director of HIV Clinical Trials program at the Yale AIDS program, Infectious Diseases Swction, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, New York. Ogbiagu is part of a team of researchers at Pfizer which announced in…
Recent surges in Covid cases in Jersey, pubs, bars, and restaurants are set to close from 00.01 GMT on Friday for up to a month amid fears health services could be overwhelmed. Only takeaways and all shops can stay open, but indoor sport and fitness classes and gyms must close and the 2meter distancing law…