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The World Health Organization is monitoring a new coronavirus variant called “mu,” which the agency says has mutations that have the potential to evade immunity provided by a previous Covid-19 infection or vaccination. Mu, also known by scientists as B.1.621, was added to the WHO’s list of variants “of interest” Read more…

French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for coronavirus, his office said on Thursday, sparking a track and trace effort targeting EU leaders and senior officials who met him in recent days. “The President of the Republic has been diagnosed positive for COVID-19 today,” Macron’s office said in a statement. Read more…

A 5-year-old boy was attacked by 6 pit bulls, ripping his scalp and ear off as he walked home from a sweet shop. Mickele Allen was brutally attacked by the pit bulls in Jamaica on November 22. He was discovered covered in blood with his flesh visible. Mickele’s brothers rushed Read more…

An extra $50 million will go to the COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC) led by the GAVI vaccine alliance, the foundation said, and another $20 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) which is co-funding development of several COVID-19 vaccine candidates. “We have to ensure that everyone gets Read more…

Newborn babies undergoing a painful heel prick blood test have a reduced response to the pain signals in their brains if they are held by a parent with skin-to-skin contact, according to new research published on Thursday. Scientists who studied brain activity in 27 babies aged up to three months Read more…

The problems started when Reese Tempest entered sixth grade. She had always loved running, but now her track team training was triggering severe breathing difficulties. “I gutted it out and cried all the time. One race, I even passed out,” Reese recalls. Justin Tempest, Reese’s father and junior high cross-country Read more…

Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine would be rolled out within two weeks and rejected as “groundless” safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscow’s rapid approval of the drug. The vaccine, called “Sputnik V” in homage to the world’s first satellite launched Read more…

A teenage girl “will never have hair again” after she was attacked by two pit bulls without provocation and they ripped off most of her scalp and one of her ears. Joslyn Stinchcomb, 15, was walking in her neighbourhood of Winder, Atlanta on July 31 when the dogs, who seem to Read more…