RFI EnglishHumanity Coronavirus survives for 9 hours on human skin, four times longer than flu - study RFIThe coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found, in a discovery they said showed the need for frequent hand washing to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. The pathogen...
RFI EnglishPfizer Pfizer plans to seek authorization for Covid-19 vaccine next month RFIUS pharmaceutical giant Pfizer expects to file for emergency use authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine in late November, around two weeks after the November 3 US presidential election, it said Friday....
RFI EnglishChina China starts distributing experimental Covid vaccine in eastern Jiaxing RFI - Michael FitzpatrickA 50 euro double-dose experimental coronavirus vaccine has been made available to some residents in an eastern Chinese city, according to health officials, in the first mass distribution of an as-yet vaccine....
RFI EnglishHerd Immunity Scientists debunk virus herd immunity as a ‘dangerous fallacy’ RFIGlobal experts have written an open letter to The Lancet medical journal warning the herd immunity approach to combatting Covid-19 is a “dangerous fallacy” that is not backed by science. Eighty researchers...
RFI EnglishEnvironment What’s the matter? This new French particle accelerator aims to find out RFI - Dhananjay KhadilkarA newly commissioned accelerator at the GANIL (Large Heavy Ion Accelerator) facility which is located on the outskirts of the French city of Caen is set to open new vistas in the field of nuclear physics...
