WASHINGTON (AP) – How can I tell the difference between the flu and COVID-19? It’s impossible to tell without a test. Influenza and COVID-19 have such similar symptoms, you may need to get tested to know what’s making you miserable. Body aches, sore throat, fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue and headaches are symptoms shared […]

BALTIMORE (VINnews) — The Ner Yisroel Yeshiva campus in Baltimore has been placed on lockdown after several students tested positive for COVID-19. Nobody is being permitted to leave the campus, and any Kollel members who don’t live on campus are being asked to learn at home. As far as dealing with the positive cases on […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, has denied a permit for a Saturday rally planned by the right-wing group Proud Boys. The city found the group’s estimated crowd size of 10,000 people was too big under coronavirus safety measures, according to a statement released Wednesday by the Portland Parks & Recreation Bureau. The bureau said […]

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci says Americans likely will need to wear masks and stay socially distance to protect themselves from the coronavirus after a vaccine becomes available. Fauci tells senators at a hearing that a vaccine won’t change conditions overnight. “The vaccine availability will go a giant step to controlling the infection, but you’re […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the first months of coronavirus, Israel’s mortality rate from the virus was extremely low compared with world figures and people could claim that there is no excess mortality due to the virus in comparison with regular years. In other words, the same number of people who had died from the virus […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi David Yosef, the son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and a member of the Higher Rabbinical Council, declared Wednesday that all shuls should be closed immediately in the wake of the steep rise in coronavirus infections. Rabbi Yosef stressed that even on Yom Kippur shuls should remain closed since “danger is worse […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus. The study starting Wednesday will be one of the world’s largest coronavirus vaccine studies so far, testing the shot in 60,000 volunteers in the U.S., South Africa, Argentina, […]

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country’s main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that could become a cost-friendly and quick way to identify infected travelers. Four dogs of different breeds trained by Finland’s Smell Detection Association started working Wednesday at the Helsinki Airport as […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — A 19-year-old young lady, married just three months, was seriously injured Tuesday after a tree fell on her in a Bnei Brak courtyard. Hatzalah medics were called to the scene and gave the young lady initial treatment. She was take in serious condition to Sheba hospital where her leg was amputated. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Faced with a burgeoning infection rate and a steep increase in hospitalizations from coronavirus, Israel has initially tried to make a weak lockdown. At present, citizens are prohibited from going further than 500 meters from their homes but can offer a host of excuses enabling them to go further, such as work, […]