Individual respect for coronavirus containment measures and a return to economic life is the best way to strike a “balance between people’s health and their livelihoods,” Information Minister Manal Abdel-Samad said Tuesday. “We are still in a critical stage but we could not continue to close the country, as there ...

The best practices for controlling an infectious disease like COVID-19 aren’t easy to follow—keeping six feet apart from others, wearing face masks in public, and, if you’re a health care worker, wearing shields to protect your eyes as well. But in a study published Monday in The Lancet, researchers provide ...

Analysis of more than 1,300 patients in French hospitals reveals age and BMI are among key factors   A new study of Covid-19 patients shows that of those with diabetes, 10 per cent die within seven days of hospital admission, and one in five require intubation and the use of ...

Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every day – have been told that they will be no longer be required ...

SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 ...

The Cabinet Friday postponed until next week the approval of key administrative appointments, having been held back by Parliament’s newly endorsed mechanism for Grade One postings. The Cabinet session, chaired by President Michel Aoun at Baabda Palace, was held against the backdrop of tensions over the building of a power ...

Surgisphere issues public statement defending integrity of coronavirus study published in the Lancet More than 120 researchers and medical professionals from around the world have written an open letter to the editor of the Lancet raising serious concerns about a large and widely publicised global study that prompted the World ...

In Lebanon, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the country at a time of instability. In this context, its secondary effects on domestic violence, the gender gap in employment and on unpaid work, risk disproportionately impacting women and girls, and rolling back hard-won gender equality gains. Women health care workers, social ...

Scientists’ understanding of the novel coronavirus grows daily, with new research constantly emerging. Here’s a roundup of coronavirus-related news and studies we found interesting and thought-provoking. Among the new research: people who’ve come down with a strain of coronavirus that causes the common cold could have immunity against the novel, ...

World’s largest vaccine maker in talks with governments over manufacturing expansion GlaxoSmithKline plans to produce 1bn doses of vaccine efficacy boosters, or adjuvants, next year for use in Covid-19 treatment. The world’s largest vaccine maker said it was in talks with governments to back a manufacturing expansion that would help ...