NEW YORK (AP) — The first Americans inoculated against COVID-19 began rolling up their sleeves for their second and final dose Monday, while Britain introduced another vaccine on the same day it imposed a new nationwide lockdown against the rapidly surging virus. New York State, meanwhile, announced its first known case of the new and […]

NEW YORK (JTA) – When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Toby Levy thought: “I’m a miracle. I will make it. I have to make it.” That’s because Levy, as she explains in a New York Times op-ed published Sunday, is an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor from what was then Poland and is now Ukraine. He survived by hiding in […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — COVID-19 can have serious physical implications for many patients but also significant psychological issues for others. A young Mexican, 29-year-old Mario Alberto, who received the news that he was positive for coronavirus experienced severe anxiety as a result. Alberto was admitted to the coronavirus ward in one of the local hospitals […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Qasem Suleimani, the senior Iranian military general killed in an American drone attack in Baghdad last January, was actively involved in terrorism on a global scale. Suleimani exported terrorism and fueled sectarian violence for decades, causing the deaths of thousands of people. Since 1998, Soleimani had led Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — India authorized two COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, paving the way for a huge inoculation program to stem the coronavirus pandemic in the world’s second-most populous country. The country’s drugs regulator gave emergency authorization for the vaccine developed by Oxford University and U.K.-based drugmaker AstraZeneca, and another developed by the Indian company […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ramped up COVID-19 vaccinations in the past few days after a slower-than-expected start, bringing to about 4 million the number of Americans who have received shots, government health officials said Sunday. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, also said on ABC’s “This Week” that President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A woman plunged 200 meters (650 feet) moments after replying affirmatively to a marriage proposal on a snowy Austrian mountain. The man who proposed to her also fell about 50 feet while attempting to save her. However due to the deep snow in the region, both of them survived their falls. […]

BALTIMORE, M.D. — The COVID-19 death toll in the United States has surpassed 350,000 as experts anticipate another surge in coronavirus cases and deaths stemming from holiday gatherings over Christmas and New Year’s. Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows the U.S. passed the threshold early Sunday morning. More than 20 million people in the […]

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Sunday that more onerous lockdown restrictions in England are likely as the country reels from a new coronavirus variant that has pushed infection rates to their highest recorded levels. Johnson, though, insisted he has “no doubt” that schools are safe and urged parents to send their […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Netanyahu made a special trip Friday to the Arab town of Umm Al-Fahm in northwestern Israel in order to take a picture with the millionth person to be vaccinated in Israel. Netanyahu’s goal was not just to celebrate the milestone but also to woo Arab voters prior to the upcoming […]