MOSCOW (AP) — Russia released new results Tuesday claiming its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was highly effective, and promised it would cost less on international markets than vaccines by some of its Western competitors. According to the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which bankrolled the development of the jab, Sputnik V will cost less than $10 per […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials in the nation’s largest county will discuss a possible stay-home order just days before Thanksgiving after a spike of coronavirus cases surpassed a threshold set by Los Angeles public health officials to trigger one. An “impressive and alarming surge” of more than 6,000 new cases put Los Angeles County over […]

LONDON (VINnews) — Harry Field, a Second World War veteran living in Epsom near London, thought that he would be celebrating his 100th birthday alone last Saturday without any words of encouragement from friends, as Britain is presently in strict lockdown after a renewed outbreak of coronavirus. However the sprightly centenarian did not realize the […]

WASHINGTON (AP)- About 1 million Americans a day packed airports and planes over the weekend even as coronavirus deaths surged across the U.S. and public health experts begged people to stay home and avoid big Thanksgiving gatherings. And the crowds are only expected to grow. Next Sunday is likely to be the busiest day of […]

SYDNEY (AP) — The boss of Australia’s largest airline said Monday that once a coronavirus vaccine becomes widely available, it may require passengers use it before they can travel abroad. Qantas Chief Executive Alan Joyce said he’s been talking to his counterparts at other airlines around the world about the possibility of a “vaccination passport” […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Has an Israeli team found the most potent anti-aging procedures ever discovered? A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Shamir Medical Center in Israel indicates that high pressure oxygen treatments, known as hyperbaric treatments (HBOT), used on healthy aging adults can stop the aging of blood cells and reverse […]

LONDON (AP) — Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said Monday that late-stage trials showed its coronavirus vaccine was up to 90% effective, giving public health officials hope they may soon have access to a vaccine that is cheaper and easier to distribute than some of its rivals. The results are based on interim analysis of trials in […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — As coronavirus infections in the Chareidi community and the general public in Israel continue to decrease, there have been increasing calls to reopen the educational system, closed since the middle of September. In the meantime only the 1st-4th grades returned to their studies two weeks ago, with 5th-6th grades slated to […]

CAIRO (VINnews) — How much can a picture accomplish? In the case of a Cairo woman who was photographed selling lupines in teeming rain, the picture was not just worth a thousand words but rather tens of thousands of dollars. An Emirati woman saw the viral picture of Nemaat, a 63-year-old Cairo vendor huddling to […]

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Although authorities have been encouraging people to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many police departments leave it up to officers to decide whether to cover their faces while interacting with the public. Some cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, require police to wear masks in […]