The State Opening of the British Parliament, which marks the formal start of the parliamentary year, took place on Tuesday.
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The COVID-19 variant B.1.617, first found in Maharashtra, India, has been named a variant of concern by the World Health Organization. But Soumya Swaminathan, the WHO’s chief scientist, said its classification is based on it being more transmissible.
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Violence in Jerusalem has been ongoing for several days, with clashes in Al-Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam, leaving hundreds injured, according to the Palestine Red Crescent. Rockets were also fired from Gaza into Israel. The violence comes as Israel marks Jerusalem Day in the city with a march.
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Mucormycosis, or “black fungus”, is a potentially fatal infection affecting COVID-19 patients in India, where doctors believe it may be triggered by the use of steroids.
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The UN human rights office is calling for an investigation into a police raid that resulted in the deaths of at least 25 people on May 6 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad say that the N440K COVID-19 variant is not the dominant strain in India’s second wave of the virus.
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On Aug. 13, 2012, the FBI reported that freelance photo-journalist Austin Bennett Tice was kidnapped inDaraya, a suburb of Damascus, Syria while reporting on the Syrian Civil War.
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A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel killed at least 44 people and injured about 150, medical officials said.
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Health officials and agencies across the world continue to study the long-term efficacy of the various COVID-19 vaccines currently on the market, but recent research indicates that the jabs produced by both Pfizer and Moderna offer immunity from the virus for at least six months.
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Russia’s agricultural regulator announced on Wednesday that it had registered Carnivak-Cov, which it claims is the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine for animals, after trials showed it produced antibodies in dogs, cats, foxes and mink.
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