A significant step in the country, its zero-tolerance coronavirus strategy is China’s announcement that it will remove the app used to track COVID-19 connections. China said Monday it would retire an app used to track COVID-19 contacts, a milestone in the country’s rapid turn away from its zero-tolerance coronavirus strategy
For the first time, the NHS is now offering whole genome sequencing (WGS) to healthy infants as part of a program. According to the BBC, the full DNA of 100,000 infants will be sequenced, allowing for the detection and treatment of rare hereditary diseases. Hundreds of English families should not have to endure months or years of agony as they wait to find out what is causing their children’s ailments, thanks to this.
From a scientist’s laptop to the syringe used to inject the UK’s first Covid vaccine dose, an exhibition that opened Wednesday in London recounts the quest to produce a coronavirus jab through objects.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento — Pele’s real name — was admitted to hospital in Sao Paulo “for a reevaluation of his chemotherapy treatment for the colon tumor diagnosed in September 2021,” his medical team said in a statement.
South Korea recorded 53,698 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Thursday compared to 24 hours ago.
