Brooklyn Clinics Under Investigation For Unauthorized COVID-19 Vaccines
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A criminal invetsigation has been announced into a health-care network that operates clinics in Boro Park, Bensonhurst and Williamsburg over administering unau...
Canada Records 1st Cases Of New Virus Variant
TORONTO — Officials in Canada's most populous province have confirmed the first two known Canadian cases of of a more contagious variant of COVID-19 that was first identified in th...
Morocco Acquires 65 Million Vaccine Doses From China, UK
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco announced it has acquired 65 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China’s Sinopharm and Britain’s AstraZeneca, as the north African kingdom prepare...
Japan Confirms Cases Of New Coronavirus Variant
TOKYO -- Japan’s health ministry has confirmed the country’s first cases of infection with the new variant of the coronavirus that was identified in Britain.
The five people arr...
US To Require Negative COVID-19 Test From UK Travelers
ATLANTA (AP) — The United States will require airline passengers from Britain to get a negative COVID-19 test before their flight, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention an...
Israeli Chief Rabbi Refuses To Allow Vaccinations On Shabbos Until They Are Given 24/7
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Chief Rabbi David Lau was asked by health minister Yuli Edelstein, who is an orthodox Jew himself, whether he would permit vaccinations on Shabbos due...
South Korea Reports Record Surge, Ramps Up Testing
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported its largest daily increase in coronavirus infections on Christmas Day, as the prime minister pleaded for vigilance to arrest a vi...
Jewish Philanthropists Increase Charitable Giving Amid Pandemic, Finds Survey
NEW YORK (JNS) — A survey found that a large percentage of Jewish philanthropists have increased their charitable giving in response to emergency needs brought on by the global cor...
Mexico Starts Giving First Shots Of Pfizer-Biontech Vaccine
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An intensive care nurse in Mexico City on Thursday became the first person in Latin America to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine.
Mexico began administe...
Doctor Who Claimed Racial Discrimination While Being Treated For COVID-19 Dies Of Virus
NEW YORK (VINnews) — An Indianapolis doctor who complained publicly about her treatment for coronavirus and claimed that due to her color she received inferior treatment died of t...
New Jersey Adds Virus Measures For UK Travelers
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — United Airlines travelers to New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Airport from the United Kingdom will have to show a negative COVID-19 test beginning next week.
New...
Nurses Fear What’s To Come: ‘Walk Down Our Unit For A Day’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nurses of California are afraid.
It’s Christmas Eve, and they aren’t home with their families. They are working, always working, completely gowned up — an...
California Becomes 1st State To Record 2 Million Virus Cases
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has become the first state to record 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases.
A tally by Johns Hopkins University on Thursday morning showed the nati...
Africa CDC: New Virus Variant Appears To Emerge In Nigeria
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa’s top public health official said Thursday, but he added that further invest...
Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin Passes Away At 75
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, one of the prominent Poskim in the religious Zionist community and a grandson of Rabbi Yosef Henkin, passed away Thursday at the ag...
Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein: Vaccine Has The Authority Of Beis Din- And Should Be Taken
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, a member of the Council of Torah Sages and a world-recognized authority on matters of medicine and Halacha, published Wednesday a ...
Inventor Of Pfizer Vaccine Says Virus Will Cause More Outbreaks ‘For The Next 10 Years’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Ugur Sahin, the Turkish-German inventor of the world's first approved vaccine for coronavirus, says that the virus could still be causing outbreaks in 10 years...
The COVID Vaccine And The Polio Vaccine: Déjà Vu
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Some people are questioning whether to take the new COVID vaccine when it becomes available. Indeed, one Rabbi of a hospital in Israel even put ...
Virus-Linked Isolation Of UK Eases But Backlog Persists
DOVER, England (AP) — Gridlock at an English port kept thousands of truckers and travelers stranded Wednesday despite a deal with France to lift a two-day blockade imposed because ...
Politicians And Vaccines: Set An Example Or Cut In Line?
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations trickled out across the United States, many members of Congress lined up at the Capitol physician's office to get inoc...