South Africa’s national state of disaster, in place for more than two years in response to COVID-19, ended midnight, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in a TV address. The national state of disaster has been the government’s main mechanism for managing…
CA stadiums, fairgrounds to be transformed into mass COVID-19 vaccination sites
California is transforming baseball stadiums, fairgrounds and even a Disneyland Resort parking lot into mass vaccination sites as the coronavirus surge overwhelms hospitals and sets a deadly new record in the state. California’s COVID-19 death toll reached 30,000 on Monday,…
The Nigerian scientist sequencing new COVID strain as cases rise
A Nigerian scientist has spent the holiday season in his laboratory doing genetic sequencing to learn more about the country’s COVID-19 variant, as cases increase in the country. Virologist Sunday Omilabu says the information he gathers about the variant will…
35% of Canadians with COVID were afraid they might die: poll
Just over one-third of Canadians surveyed said they were worried they could die after contracting COVID-19, according to a poll released by Leger Tuesday (Dec. 22). The poll was conducted as part of a series of survey carried out by…
COVID and our faith
Survey says American’s faith has become stronger because of the coronavirus pandemic By David Fleet Editor Pastor Ben Gonzales was tested. On March 24, the 39 year-old pastor of the First Baptist Church of Goodrich, 6116 S. State Road, was…
Covid tests could be picking up DEAD virus cells from weeks’ old infections, says study
Coronavirus tests could be picking up dead virus cells from weeks’ old infections, study finds, meaning ‘false positives’ could lead to an exaggeration of the current scale of the pandemic. Despite coronavirus only being infectious for around a week, the tests…