Covid Italia, il bollettino del 9 gennaio: 155.659 nuovi casi e 157 morti

Read More Sono 155.659  i nuovi contagi da Covid nelle ultime 24 ore, secondo i dati del ministero della Salute. Ieri erano stati 197.552. Le vittime sono invece 157 , rispetto a ieri, quando erano state 184. Crescono i ricoveri (+717) e le terapie intensive (+38); 993.201 sono i tamponi eseguiti. Il tasso di positività […]

Confounding critics, Israel’s Yair Lapid marks surprising decade in politics

Read More On Saturday morning, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid tweeted a photo of himself with a birthday cake. It wasn’t his birthday. That was two months ago, when he turned 58. The cake – actually, there were two of them in the shape of numerals – was for the 10th anniversary of his announcement on […]

Israel’s national library notes increase in Arabic site visitors last year

Read More Israel’s national library says the number of visitors to its Arabic website more than doubled last year, driven by a growing collection of digitized materials and an aggressive outreach campaign to the Arab world. Around 650,000 users, predominantly from the Palestinian territories, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Algeria, visited the National Library of […]

Up to 40% of Israelis expected to get COVID during omicron wave, Bennett warns

Read More Some 2-4 million Israelis will likely be infected with the coronavirus during the current wave of infection driven by the omicron variant, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday, citing information presented at the weekly cabinet meeting. Four million people equals roughly 40 percent of Israel’s population. The omicron variant is unlike the alpha […]

Zoonotic viruses: Protect bats to protect people

Read More South Africa’s bats are fast losing the trees that provide them with food, places to roost and landmarks to help them navigate. And the destruction of their habitat has implications for humans: the spread of potentially zoonotic viruses. In a new study, Mariette Pretorius, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pretoria’s Centre […]