By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced today the state’s first case of the of COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the UK. The Colorado State Laboratory...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in a statement to the country spoke of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday. Here is an excerpt: The number of new coronavirus infections...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reports one additional confirmed yellow fever case the week ending December 25 in Delta state. NCDC is currently responding to...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has detected the COVID-19 virus variant in two people who came to Norway from the United Kingdom in December. The infection detection...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Ukraine Ministry of Health reported that a imported case of malaria has turned out to be fatal. The patient was a 44-year-old man from Kharkiv who returned from Equatorial...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The first batch of vaccines against COVID-19 arrived this Saturday in Portugal and people started getting vaccinated yesterday, according to the Portugal Ministry of Health. The...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Last Monday, Peru Minister of Health, Pilar Mazzetti Soler announced additional restrictions as the country on the same day topped 1 million cases (1,000,153), the 17th country...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The total number of COVID-19 cases reported in Los Angeles County for the two day span of Dec. 25 and 26 totaled nearly 30,000, according to the LA County Health Department. Officials...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the yellow fever situation in Paraná state, Brazil, on Wednesday, the Secretariat of Health of Paraná released the biweekly yellow fever bulletin with the...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Public Health Agency of Canada is reporting two confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ontario of the variant observed in the United Kingdom. The National Microbiology Laboratory monitors...