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 […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Jury duty notices have set Nicholas Philbrook’s home on edge with worries about him contracting the coronavirus and passing it on to his father-in-law, a cancer survivor with diabetes in his mid-70s who is at higher risk of developing serious complications from COVID-19. Philbrook and his wife, Heather Schmidt, of Camarillo, […]

QUEBEC (JTA) – Jewish groups in Quebec are expressing dismay after the province announced a plan to allow small gatherings at Christmas but said gatherings during Hanukkah would remain prohibited. The plan would permit Quebecers to have gatherings of up to 10 people per day for four days in late December, in a concession to […]

MOSCOW (VINnews) — Seven people died after drinking hand sanitizer at a drinking party in Russia where participants ran out of alcohol. Two more are in a coma in intensive care after they also consumed the hand wash. The incident occurred in the village of Tomtor in Yakutia, central Russia. The hand sanitizer had been […]

ESSEN, GERMANY (VINnews) — A German doctor at the Essen University hospital has been charged with manslaughter after he allegedly administered lethal medication to two critically ill patients with coronavirus, causing their immediate death. The patients, aged 47 and 50 ,died on November 13 and 17, but suspicions were raised about the way they died […]

WASHINGTON — The United States’ top infectious diseases expert says he’s worried that crowding at U.S. airports from Thanksgiving travel could lead to a perilous situation as COVID-19 cases surge. Dr. Anthony Fauci told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the “people at airports” despite federal guidance to avoid travel “are going to get […]

BERLIN (AP) — A video went viral Sunday in Germany of a confrontation at a coronavirus protest, where a young woman compared herself to a famous Nazi resistance fighter and then was accused by a security guard of “trivalizing” the Holocaust. Several people protesting coronavirus restrictions in Germany that seek to tamp down new infections […]