BRASILIA (ANP / AFP) – Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro will not be vaccinated against Covid-19. But he stresses that the vaccines will be distributed immediately and administered when available. Bolsonaro said on social media that it is his right to refrain from vaccination. The country has now ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine from … Read more
As head of the World Bank, he campaigned for the fight against poverty and corruption and campaigned for minorities and human rights. James Wolfensohn, who headed the international organization for ten years over the turn of the millennium, has now died at the age of 86. The former World Bank president died on Wednesday in … Read more
Next month we can spot a special phenomenon in the night sky. Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in our solar system, then line up for the eye. The last time we could actually observe was almost 800 years ago. It happens more often, about once every twenty years, but we usually can’t see … Read more
It seems unlikely that Harry and Meghan will return to the UK for any length of time. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have decided to share their Windsor home, Frogmore Cottage, with pregnant Princess Eugenie and her husband, according to British media. They would have moved in on Friday. The Duke of Sussex and … Read more
The seed of men infected with corona can be seriously affected. Not only is there much less seed present after Covid-19 – up to ten percent of what should be normal – it is also less mobile and even deformed. This comes from research by the Belgian Professor Gilbert Donders, writes Het Nieuwsblad. For the … Read more
The chapare virus spreads from humans to humans, researchers at the American CDC discovered. Only minor outbreaks of the deadly virus have been reported in Bolivia so far. The virus that resembles Ebola is thought to come from rats. The first case dates back to 2004, when a 22-year-old Bolivian farmer from Chapare province died … Read more
According to official figures, the coronavirus first appeared in Europe at the end of January, but more and more studies indicate that it was probably already around much earlier. Italian researchers now state that there were already infections in September 2019. According to researchers at the Italian Cancer Institute (INT), 11.6 percent of 959 healthy … Read more
It’s a happy movie, like many nice young boys and girls make happy TikTok movies. Countess Eloise van Oranje-Nassau (18) made a video on TikTok in which her parents – Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien – could also be seen dancing. The video disappeared from her account not much later. Because a countess should be … Read more
Tesla boss Elon Musk suspects he has Covid-19, but is unsure after conflicting test results. “I have symptoms of a mild cold,” Musk writes on Twitter on Saturday (local time). “I get very different results from different labs, but most likely I have a moderate case of Covid.” He had already written on Friday that … Read more
The corona virus does not like dry air. Now that it is cold, we turn on the heating in the house and that actually makes the air drier. Time to moisturize. “As the humidity increases, the saliva droplets become heavier, causing them to settle faster,” says professor of environment and health, Lode Godderis of KU … Read more