A vaccination drive that has begun to pick up speed is propelling the United States ahead in the race to immunize its population against COVID-19. Currently, the U.S. ranks seventh in the world, with 25.7 percent of Americans having received at least one dose, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … Read more
More than half of Israel’s population has been fully vaccinated with two doses of protection against Covid-19, the country’s health minister announced today. Israel’s rapid progress means more than 4.6million people have had two jabs and are eligible for a so-called ‘green pass’ in a scheme being closely watched by other countries. Around 60 per … Read more
A quaint Italian town has offered up its abandoned homes for 85p – and without the usual need to pay a deposit like the country’s other 1 euro house schemes. Laurenzana, in the southern region of Basilicata, is enticing newcomers by scrapping the usual caveats of deposits and legal fees which can rise to more … Read more
Britain’s population could shrink by two per cent after the coronavirus pandemic if 1.3million ‘missing’ migrant workers who left during crisis don’t return, watchdog warns A report says Britain’s population is ‘substantially smaller’ than official statistics Up to 1.3million people have left in the past year due to the Covid pandemic Brexit rules mean migrants … Read more
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany is now in the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, two sources told Reuters news agency. ‘We are now in the third wave,’ Merkel told lawmakers in her conservative party on Wednesday, according to two sources who attended the meeting. The chancellor is also said to have warned … Read more
Experts say it is possible that the U.S. may achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus as early as July. In a video for MedPage Today, Dr Monica Gandhi, of the University of California San Francisco, said the nation will only be able to curb virus spread between vaccination coverage and natural immunity. There are currently … Read more
The White House is now saying that not every American will be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in spring just one day after President Biden pledged that anyone who wanted a shot could get it by then. White House press secretary Jen Psaki was on Tuesday asked about Biden’s comments 24 hours earlier about … Read more
Experts warn number of people in Britain could have shrunk by 1.3million – biggest decline since WWII – amid exodus of foreign-born workers as COVID wreaks havoc on jobs Statistics experts said UK population may have fallen 1.3million amid pandemic The ‘illustrative’ estimate would represent biggest fall since Second World War Suggests there may have … Read more
UK records first fall in non-UK born and non-British populations in at least a decade following the impact of Brexit and the coronavirus crisis Office for National Statistics published data on UK population by country of birth It showed that the non-UK-born and non-British population have both decreased Fall has been largely attributed to a … Read more
UK records first fall in non-UK born and non-British populations in at least a decade following the impact of Brexit and the coronavirus crisis Office for National Statistics published data on UK population by country of birth It showed that the non-UK-born and non-British population have both decreased Fall has been largely attributed to a … Read more