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The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) have failed to achieve a breakthrough on a long-sought pandemic preparedness treaty. The latest round of negotiations began nearly two weeks ago in Geneva and were described as the UN health agency's final push to forge an agreement on a draft text. The next steps are unclear. The goal was to have the so-called "pandemic treaty" adopted at this year's World Health Assembly, which is the WHO's supreme decision-making body. The meeting is due to be held starting at the end of May. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO members ca...
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A group of three German men accused of forming an armed group to oppose coronavirus pandemic restrictions will stand trial, a court in the western German city of Koblenz ruled on Friday. According to the indictment, the men formed a group they named Paladin with the goal of taking up arms against government-imposed Covid-19 measures, the court said on Friday. The defendants allegedly took part in paramilitary exercises between February and May 2021 and produced weapon parts and ammunition using 3D printers. One of the three defendants, a 39-year-old, is said to have developed the idea during t...
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The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) began a final push to reach an agreement on a pandemic preparedness treaty in Geneva on Monday, with the draft text criticized as too weak by several stakeholders. The talks, which last 12 days, are expected to be vexed as representatives race to meet a looming deadline to finalize the text. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO members called for an robust accord aimed at ensuring countries are better equipped to handle the next catastrophic outbreak and have the global response be less chaotic. For instance, advocates want t...
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The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) will begin a final push to reach an agreement on a pandemic preparedness treaty in Geneva on Monday. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO members called for an accord aimed at ensuring countries are better equipped to handle the next catastrophic outbreak and have the global response be less chaotic. For instance, advocates want the planned treaty to include a supply chain network coordinated by the WHO so that all countries have access to the medicines they need in an emergency without trade restrictions. Similarly, part of ...
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A planned international accord on how to limit deaths and coordinate international action during a pandemic is in the balance ahead of talks at the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO's 194 member states are aiming to reach agreement in Geneva from Monday. "It will be difficult," said one negotiator. In the struggle to reach an agreement, the negotiators have presented a radically shortened draft compared to a proposal from before Easter. It now runs to 23 pages. Numerous controversial provisions have been omitted. The international agreement is intended to save lives in the event of a fu...
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Researchers from the Netherlands have reported an extremely long Covid-19 infection in a man who died last year - and warn of the emergence of more dangerous variants of the coronavirus. The elderly man, who was immuno-compromised due to previous illnesses, was admitted to a hospital in Amsterdam in February 2022 with a Covid-19 infection, according to a statement. He was continuously positive for the coronavirus until his death in October 2023 for a total of 613 days. Other cases of very long infections in people whose immune systems were unable to adequately fight the virus have previously b...
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Researchers from the Netherlands have reported an extremely long Covid-19 infection in a man who died last year - and warn of the emergence of more dangerous variants of the coronavirus. The elderly man, who was immuno-compromised due to previous illnesses, was admitted to a hospital in Amsterdam in February 2022 with a Covid-19 infection, according to a statement. He was continuously positive for the coronavirus until his death in October 2023 for a total of 613 days. Other cases of very long infections in people whose immune systems were unable to adequately fight the virus have previously b...
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Germany's highest civil court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by two chain hotels over emergency business restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic and compensation schemes. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) upheld the northern city of Bremen's emergency restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus infections as lawful, and rejected the hotels' claim that a business compensation formula was unfair and inadequate. The two Bremen hotels, both part of a larger nationwide hotel chain, argued that Bremen's compensation formula gave small- and mid-sized businesses an unfair advantage. ...
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A woman in Germany has achieved an initial victory against the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca in the trial over suspected harm caused by its Covid-19 jab. The civil case is one of the first in Germany against a coronavirus vaccine manufacturer. A civil chamber of the Bamberg Higher Regional Court, in Bavaria, ordered the company to provide comprehensive information about a possible side effects of its Covid-19 vaccine Vaxzevria. The company must disclose all known side effects of the vaccine as well as on all other findings that may be relevant "insofar as they relate to thrombosis with t...
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An employee of a Munich pharmacy was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for more than 1,000 fake coronavirus vaccination certificates. Her acquaintance, who sold the vaccination certificates on the darknet, received a prison sentence of three years and nine months for, among other things, violations of the Infection Protection Act, a spokesman for the Munich I Regional Court said on Friday. For both of them, part of the sentence has already been served through time spent in pre-trial detention. The duo's guilt was already certain following a ruling by the regional court in November 20...
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