In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the top disease control authority acknowledged, at a press conference in Chengdu, that “the vaccines do not have very high protection rates”. China admits low efficacy of vaccines it produces and considers mixing vaccines
As we informed in past news, advisers of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, are preparing a $3 trillion plan to stimulate the economy in the long run. The package includes measures to combat climate change and alleviate inequality in the country, in
On Saturday (27), five thousand people participated in a concert in Barcelona, Spain, to test post-pandemic events. They all had to wear masks and pass a Covid test before entering the arena, but social distance was not necessary. The performance was by the Spanish pop
Facebook banned more than 1.3 billion fake accounts between October and December 2020. The move is part of the company’s efforts to combat online misinformation. In addition to preventing the creation and deactivation of profiles in order to propagate fake news, the social network released
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the global industry has been working on the search for new technologies to mitigate the effects of the new coronavirus. An example of this is antiviral fabrics, such as the one pioneered by the Brazillian group Dalila Têxtil led
The social distancing caused by the coronavirus pandemic has spurred the hunt for bugs in online services, which can yield high cash rewards. According to the HackerOne platform, at least nine “good hackers” have made more than $1 million by reporting security problems over the
It’s with the Covid-19 vaccination programs in progress that difficulties are beginning to be encountered in getting vaccines to less developed countries and remote areas. Well, a San Francisco startup named Zipline seems to have found a solution and is already applying it in Ghana
The UK is facing its worst recession since the extraordinarily cold winter that hit the region in 1709, when the American colonies were still British and Benjamin Franklin was just 3 years old. The crisis is basically reflected in all sectors. To try to reverse
A study published yesterday (16) in the scientific journal Nature raised an important question for the understanding and prophylaxis of new forms of coronavirus arising from homologous recombination among infectious agents: which host animals could harbor sources of new forms of the virus? To answer