ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Coronavirus cases hit new daily highs this week in Russia, and Germany and the U.K. announced plans Tuesday to expand virus testing as European countries battled rapidly increasing COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. Nations reintroduced restrictions to get ahead of a virus that has caused more than 1.2 million deaths around the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The state of Malawi, situated between Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania in Eastern Africa, has announced that it will open an embassy in Jerusalem, making it the first African nation to have a delegation in Israel’s capital. Malawian Foreign Minister Eisenhower Mkaka announced the decision during his visit to Israel Tuesday, adding that […]

UNITED STATES (AP) — America’s fight over masks has reached a new front: polling places. On Election Day, voters across the country will face varying rules about mask-wearing when they cast a ballot as officials try to balance public safety precautions amid a global pandemic with the constitutional right to vote. Most states, even ones […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — There is one sector in Israeli society which, far from experiencing a drop in coronavirus cases, is actually suffering from a huge increase in such cases. Chareidim? No, at this point it is Arab society which has seen an exponential rise in cases, with a whopping 76% of tests coming out positive […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — During the course of the coronavirus epidemic, Bnei Brak has been significantly affected, with a high percentage of its citizens becoming infected with the virus. Hundreds passed away and many suffered serious side effects, but in recent days the virus has waned and Bnei Brak was this week declared a “green […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an attempt to discover the long-term effects of COVID-19 on patients who were infected with the virus, a Hebrew University research team has published a new study of symptoms which remain for those who have recovered from COVID-19. The study, led by Prof. Masha Niv of the department for Biochemistry, Food […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The first volunteer to receive an experimental Israeli COVID-19 vaccine, 26-year-old undergraduate business administration student Segev Harel, said that he was feeling optimistic about participating in the first phase of clinical trials starting Sunday and saw it as   an “historic opportunity.” Segev Harel receives vaccination from nurse Hella Litwin, Sheba Hospital, Nov. […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a deal that will allow schools in red and orange micro-cluster zones to reopen for in-person learning. The new testing protocol will include mass testing before school reopens followed by weekly surveillance testing. The state will provide free rapid-result test kits for schools wishing to participate. […]

PARIS (AP) — French doctors expressed relief but business owners were in despair as France prepared Thursday to shut down again for a month to try to put the brakes on a fast-moving fall coronavirus outbreak. Shoppers at a Paris farmers’ market said Thursday they were ready to restrict their freedoms given the rising number […]

BOSTON (AP) — Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals could unleash a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. health care system, an effort that, if successful, could paralyze hospital information systems just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking. In a joint alert Wednesday, the FBI and two federal agencies said they had credible […]