UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus and thanked the Chinese government for sharing the genetic map of the virus “immediately,.” But in fact, Chinese officials sat on releasing the genetic map, or genome, of the deadly virus […]

TEL AVIV (VINnews) — A representative sample of serological (blood)tests for coronavirus antibodies in Israelis has revealed that between 2-3 percent of the Israeli population contracted the coronavirus, at least 10 times more than the number of confirmed cases. This would mean that up to 270,000 Israelis were infected with the virus and developed antibodies […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem District Court ruled that Binyamin Friedman, a Chareidi resident of Beit Shemesh who allegedly attacked policemen disbanding an illegal minyan in his town two months ago, will remain in custody, despite the court’s willingness to allow him to be in house arrest with an electronic handcuff. Friedman had requested that […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health authorities have received reports of nearly 26,000 nursing home residents dying from COVID-19, according to materials prepared for the nation’s governors. That number is partial and likely to go higher. A letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports more […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of students in Jerusalem and other cities across the country were sent home Monday to isolation after staff and students were found to have COVID-19. Schools in Israel began opening more than two weeks ago after isolating for nearly two months due to the coronavirus. Students from some 35 schools and […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — As protests over the death of George Floyd erupted around all of America, public health experts warned of a fresh outbreak of the coronavirus due to the lack of maintenance of health regulations during the course of the protests. NBC reports that the thousands of Americans congregating in cities across the […]

CORDOBA, SPAIN (VINnews) — Belgium’s Prince Joachim, a nephew of King Philippe of Belgium and ninth in line to the Belgian throne, has contracted COVID-19 after violating  lockdown rules by flying 1000 miles south and attending an illegal social gathering in Cordoba with his girlfriend, Victoria Ortiz. Spanish news site El Pais reported that 27 […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an urgent press conference convened during the course of Shavuot, Prime Minister Netanyahu and health ministry officials warned that they may have to rethink the opening of the educational system in the wake of a significant rise in infections after schools opened a few weeks ago. The officials exhorted the public […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Israeli rock star Aviv Gefen has been trying to heal tensions between the Chareidi and secular communities which have flared up over the course of the coronavirus outbreak. Gefen recently confessed in a televised interview that he had totally changed his attitude towards Chareidim after he appeared at the outdoor Amphi […]

NEW YORK (AP) – CVS Health will try delivering prescriptions with self-driving vehicles in a test that begins next month. The drugstore chain said Thursday that it will partner with the Silicon Valley robotics company Nuro to deliver medicines and other products to customers near a Houston-area store. A CVS spokesman said the prescriptions will […]