KENT, England — A driver and three passengers were fined heavily by the Kent Police after breaking Covid-19 lockdown guidelines during an incident reported in the wee hours of Feb. 15. The incident took place in Dock Road, Chatham, Kent in England. During the interrogation, the driver informed the police that the occupants were his family and friends. They all lived together. However, after an inquiry by one of the police officials, the passengers uttered their real addresses, which turned out to be all different. “One of them is my girlfriend. I do not live with her and picked her…
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MADRID, Spain — A video of firefighters battling a major fire of burning washing machines and electrical devices in a Madrid scrapyard has been released by the city emergency services. The fire took place in the municipality of Leganes located near the Spanish capital in the autonomous Community of Madrid and started in the early hours of Feb 16. Madrid Emergency and Security Agency 112 posted videos of the fire breakout on their official twitter handle writing, “Industrial fire in a junkyard in #Leganés . The main focus has been on an outdoor pile of washing machines that are burning…
MADRID, Spain — A 32-year-old mother, who was tested positive for Covid-19, finally met her baby via a video call 13 days after giving birth. The woman identified as Vilma A. was admitted to the Hospital University ’12 de Octubre’ in Orcasur in the Spanish capital of Madrid. “Vilma contracted the disease during the last stages of pregnancy and was suffering from respiratory problems, so doctors decided to perform a cesarean section on Jan 24,” said the hospital in a statement. She gave birth to a healthy baby girl and the mother was taken to the Intensive Care Unit and…
Israel’s world-first vaccination data continues to show the strong efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Peer-reviewed correspondence from Sheba Medical Center, published Feb. 18 in the British medical journal The Lancet, reveals that the Pfizer vaccine is 85 percent effective even after the first dose. Sheba’s research team reported that after 7,214 of its health care workers received their first dose in January, there was an 85 percent rate reduction of clinical (symptomatic) Covid-19 disease between 15 and 28 days later. Overall, both symptomatic and asymptomatic infections were reduced by 75 percent. “This supports the British government’s decision to begin inoculating…
A biomedical engineering graduate in Israel began to wonder if she could engineer her own way out of panic attacks by building a medical device that could provide calming relief. Together with her mother, Adi Wallach founded a company that sells CalmiGo, a handheld device that looks like an asthma inhaler and sells for $179. The panic-relieving technology developed by their company, Dendro Technologies, engages vision, touch and smell to reduce stress. CalmiGo comes at a time of heightened anxiety for many, given the pandemic. Launched in 2019, it has sold 20,000 units on Amazon, on the CalmiGo website and…
MADRID — Spain has decided to reduce its restrictions on free speech. The recent ruling comes in the wake of angry national protests over the Feb. 16 sentencing of rapper Pablo Hasel, who was jailed for a song and tweets. The Spanish courts have convicted at least 153 people for crimes of expression, most for “glorifying terrorism” under article 578 of the Spanish Penal Code. The Spanish Government just announced a reform of the Penal Code, eliminating prison sentences for crimes of expression. Alfredo Remírez, the first person sent to prison in Spain for a message on Twitter, said: “I had…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A 3.6 million-year-old giant sloth skull could change the theory about the history of the species in South America, scientists believe. The perfectly preserved skull of a juvenile sloth, which was found by a team of researchers in Argentina, weighs nearly six tons and is five meters (16.4 feet) long. The location of the rest of the skeleton is not known. The Megatherium fossil was found two years ago, along with many other prehistoric remains in San Eduardo del Mar, Buenos Aires. Nicolas R. Chimento examines an ancient fossil. (Nicolas R. Chimento/Real Press)The animal was young when…
PUNE, India — South Africa has rejected the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine — one of the only two vaccines approved by India — as it is concerned with its efficacy. The African nation had already imported one million doses of the vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India near Pune in the southern state of Maharashtra. Each vaccine dose cost $5.35. After halting a planned rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccines, the nation started administering Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines that are yet to be authorized. They are being rolled out for the first time outside a major clinical trial. “We will…
MUMBAI, India — Electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla Inc’s chief Elon Musk has been hinting at plans to enter India for a few years now. And on Feb. 13, the Chief Minister of South Indian state Karnataka, B.S. Yediyurappa, said California-based Tesla would be setting up a unit in the state. While neither Tesla nor Musk have confirmed these developments, ‘Tesla India Motors and Energy Pvt Ltd’ has been registered with the Registrar of Companies in Bengaluru, hinting that the city will most likely be its India headquarters. As of Jan. 8, 2021, Vaibhav Taneja, Venkatrangam Sreeram, and David Jon Feinstein are registered as…
Have you ever considered how many kinds of paper we use and handle every day? Newspaper, office-printed paper, tickets, bills, banknotes, receipts, books, napkins, bags, food packaging, toilet paper, and health certificates (especially during the Covid-19 pandemic) are some of the common paper-based products we hardly give a second thought to. As of 2018, the total global production of paper and cardboard was about 420 million tons per year, but this amount is expected to rise. In fact, researchers speculated this number would reach 490 million tons by 2020. For a world so entrenched in the digital age, this amount…