Boost for UK’s vaccine drive as Israel reopens economy after HALF the population get Covid jabs

Israel reopened swathes of its economy today with the number of over-60s in its hospitals with Covid-19 plummeting after the nation vaccinated almost half its population. In promising signs for Britain’s own fight against the virus, Israel’s world-beating vaccination programme has led to the number of hospital patients over the age of 60 visiting to fall … Read more

Covid Israel: UK film director on hunger strike against quarantine

London film director who flew to Israel on private plane stages hunger strike to protest being quarantined in £240-a-night hotel at government’s expense Dekel Berenson, 41, said the Israeli government’s Covid response was ‘abysmal’ Israeli-born Berenson travelled from Cyprus where he said he had isolated for 11 months and insisted he should have been allowed … Read more

Covid Israel: UK film director on hunger strike against quarantine

London film director who flew to Israel on private plane stages hunger strike to protest being quarantined in £240-a-night hotel at government’s expense Dekel Berenson, 41, said the Israeli government’s Covid response was ‘abysmal’ Israeli-born Berenson travelled from Cyprus where he said he had isolated for 11 months and insisted he should have been allowed … Read more

Stillborn baby died from Covid after being infected through the placenta, Israeli doctors say

Stillborn baby likely died from Covid after being infected through the placenta, Israeli doctors say A 29-year-old woman arrived at the Assuta Hospital in Ashdod last weekend She tested positive for Covid and tests after birth revealed child also had virus It is the first known incident of its kind in Israel, and a rare … Read more

Stillborn baby died from Covid after being infected through the placenta, Israeli doctors say

Stillborn baby likely died from Covid after being infected through the placenta, Israeli doctors say A 29-year-old woman arrived at the Assuta Hospital in Ashdod last weekend She tested positive for Covid and tests after birth revealed child also had virus It is the first known incident of its kind in Israel, and a rare … Read more

Fossilised tooth of a nine-year-old child is most southerly evidence of Neanderthals

The fossilised tooth of a Neanderthal child found in a cave near Jerusalem could be proof our cousins made it into Africa as Cairo is just 400km away, study claims. Archaeologists from the Max Planck Institute re-examined the fossil record from Shuqba Cave – 28km northwest of Jerusalem – including a child’s tooth. The tooth was … Read more

Covid-19 symptoms: Children HALF as susceptible to infection

Adults are more than twice as susceptible to coronavirus compared to children, a mathematical study has found.  Inhabitants of 637 households in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak were tested for Covid-19 in 2020’s first wave and the data was inputted into a statistical model.  It found children are 43 per cent as susceptible to Covid-19 … Read more

Covid-19 symptoms: Children HALF as susceptible to infection

Adults are more than twice as susceptible to coronavirus compared to children, a mathematical study has found.  Inhabitants of 637 households in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak were tested for Covid-19 in 2020’s first wave and the data was inputted into a statistical model.  It found children are 43 per cent as susceptible to Covid-19 … Read more