Sign up for HAMODIA'S
Breaking News Emails*
The Israeli government has announced that special flights will leave Israel on a daily basis to Frankfurt, Germany, with the belief that travelers to other locations will be able to…
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to lose only a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered virus with three key mutations from the new coronavirus variant found in…
How many variants of the coronavirus are there? There are many circulating around the world, but health experts are primarily concerned with the emergence of three. As a virus infects…
Europe’s fight to secure COVID-19 vaccine supplies sharpened on Thursday when Britain demanded that it receive all the shots it paid for after the European Union asked AstraZeneca to divert…
“Lifting the lockdown in the present situation would be highly irresponsible,” Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said while visiting the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. The minister added that he understood…
A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus…
On Monday, 12 Shvat/January 25, Harav Yitzchak Lasker, a longtime resident of the Matersdorf neighborhood in Yerushalayim and the Menahel of the Maaneh Simchah Cheder was niftar after he took…
California’s health director on Tuesday revealed the math behind the state’s calculation that it was safe to lift all remaining stay-at-home orders, a response to criticism that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that he will come up with a plan by Friday to address how New York City restaurants might reopen indoor dining, as his…
A Wisconsin pharmacist accused of pulling dozens of doses of the Moderna vaccine from refrigeration has agreed to plead guilty to intentionally trying to make the coronavirus treatment ineffective. Steven…
A highly contagious variant of COVID-19 first identified in the United Kingdom is now in 26 states and has infected at least 308 people, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the new director…
The United Nations has joined other critics of Israel in accusing it of denying coronavirus vaccines to the Palestinians while it inoculates its own population, a charge that Israel vehemently…
The Knesset voted on Wednesday to approve lockdown rules over objections from the Blue and White party, which is seeking to raise the fines on violators. MKs voted 34 to…
The government is set to meet on Thursday to discuss extending the lockdown and the closure of the skies, which are due to end on Jan. 31, Prime Minister Binyamin…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicated on Wednesday the COVID-19 lockdown in England would last until March 8, when schools could start to reopen, as he said some travelers to…
President Joe Biden announced his administration was in talks with Moderna to buy an additional 200 million doses, for a total of 600 million, therefore ensuring the United States would…
A plant in Wales that produces AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has been partially evacuated after a suspicious package was received, the company that operates it said on Wednesday. “Wockhardt U.K. in…
The European Union is asking AstraZeneca to publish the contract it signed with the bloc on COVID-19 vaccine supplies, an EU official said on Wednesday, in an escalation of the…
The Health Ministry on Wednesday morning reported that 7,737 new coronavirus cases were diagnosed the previous day, while a slight drop has been recorded in the number of serious and…
The Biden administration should make manufacturing more COVID-19 vaccines its primary focus as it confronts the coronavirus pandemic, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said in an interview. The Democrat said…