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German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has tested positive for the coronavirus and is isolating at home. "The minister is fine, he has only mild symptoms. He is temporarily conducting his official duties from home isolation," the German Health Ministry said. Lauterbach, 59 and a Social Democrat member, has received four doses of the COVID vaccine. The ministry said this "shows that with the highly contagious omicron variant, infection cannot be completely ruled out, even with extreme caution." "The minister therefore again appeals to everyone to behave prudently and pay attention to adequate vaccination protection, so that infections and severe cases...

The UK is preparing to impose another harsh nationwide lockdown in response to the emergence of the mild Omicron variant.But Sky News put UK Health Minister Gillian Keegan on the spot when she was asked how many Omicron cases and deaths were recorded in the country of 68 million people. After initially claiming that “774” people had been hospitalized with Omicron, Keegan walked that back to only “10”, noting the first number was total hospitalizations in the entire country over the last week.“Maybe going up to 11 now, actually,” Keegan, the Minister of State for Care at the Department of...

Israeli Health Ministry vaccination advisory committee member and deputy chief of Israel's biggest hospital Professor Arnon Afek is telling the public to prepare not only to take their fourth "booster" shot but also their fifth, sixth and seventh.https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1467787328294993924"Those who think we won't need to take more boosters are wrong," Afek said Monday. "We will need to take the fourth shot, the fifth shot, the sixth shot, and the seventh shot.""As long as the pandemic continues in places like Africa, where only few are vaccinated, new variants of COVID-19 will develop and the need to protect against them with vaccines, will...

Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz was caught on a hot mic disclosing the real reason for imposing “green pass,” a Covid-19 vaccine passport, for certain venues.Ahead of a weekly Cabinet meeting, Horowitz turned to Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked noting that " there is no medical or epidemiological justification for the Covid passport [green pass], it is only intended to pressure the unvaccinated to vaccinate." He was unaware Channel 12 News was recording behind him.Currently, he said, “there is a kind of universality to the ‘green pass’ system, other than at malls, where I think it should be imposed, [because] now...

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, on Sunday, said that the rate of growth of new Covid-19 cases has been steadying for a while, and the recovery rate is improving. He also added that India is “on the path of success and will win the war against the pandemic”. He said around 10,000 Covid-19 patients have recovered so far. “The recovery rate of Covid-19 patients has steadily increased, which shows that more and more of these patients are getting better and going back home,” he said. Steadying rate of growth “The rate of growth of new cases has also been...

There is a massive amount of controversy surrounding New health minister of Belgium Maggie De Block being the Health Minister. Critics attacked New Belgium Health Minister Maggie De Block leading Belgium’s battle against obesity. The critics say, health minister of Belgium, Maggie De Block does not set the right example to be worrying about the people’s fitness. Some say’s, they have a perfect point as far as people are concerned. So, she is leading the Battle of the Bulge. She is in charge of public health. She’s come under fire for being too fat for the job among her...

German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Friday he will seek to ban conversion therapies that claim to change sexual orientation. “Homosexuality is not an illness, which is why it does not need to be treated,” Spahn, who is gay himself, told the Berlin daily left-leaning daily Die Tageszeitung. He hoped that a German law banning such therapies could be adopted by the middle of the year. […] “I do not believe in these therapies, mainly owing to my own homosexuality,” said Spahn, who represents the right wing of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party. …

Australia’s heath minister temporarily stepped down Monday while her travel expense claims are investigated. The scandal surrounding Minister Sussan Ley’s expense claims could trigger the first reshuffle of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Cabinet since his government was re-elected six months ago. Ley has been under scrutiny since last week over allegations that she made taxpayers pay for personal travel in recent years, including to the tourist city of Gold Coast where she bought a luxury apartment in 2015. Turnbull said Ley had agreed to stand aside without ministerial pay while the prime minister’s department investigated whether her expense claims met...

The Russian Healthcare Minister Ms Veronika Skvortsova [Veh-rOh-Nee-Kah Skvor-tsOh-vah] told the press about an incident aboard a plane airborne over St.Petersburg. She had to give first aid to a female passenger who passed out. "In minutes after the take off the stewards announced that a passenger had collapsed, and when we approached, we found a 47-y.o. woman who was unconscious and having the symptoms of focal brain injury, thready pulse and undetectable blood pressure. We decided that the patients' state was a sharp deterioration in the cerebral circulation against the background of systemic changes in the hemodynamics. The Minister and...

Document ISGP-2003-00300134 contains Top Secret And Personal letters that carry Saddam orders to do radiation and biological testing on the Presidential sites that were attacked by the US in December 1998. Beginning of translation of the first top secret and personal memo In the Name of God the Most Merciful The Most Compassionate Top Secret And Personal The Republic of Iraq The Presidential Secretariat Number: 537304/1 18/12/1998 ORDER Mr. President The Leader (God Protects Him) Order: Form committees from the Ministry of Health and the Military Industrialization Commission and The Atomic Energy Organization and The Special Security Service with its...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's health minister, who is aligned to a powerful Shiite militia, claimed Sunday that U.S. forces arrested seven of his personal guards in a surprise pre-dawn raid on his office. The reason for the alleged arrests was unclear. Health minister Ali al-Shemari said the soldiers arrived at 3 a.m. Sunday, broke open doors inside the building leading to his office and hauled away the seven men, who were posted there as night guards. U.S. officials did not immediately respond to the claim. "There was no legal warrant, there was no prior warning to the ministry, there was...

LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The BBC apologised on Saturday for erroneously reporting that U.S.-led and Iraqi forces may be responsible for the deaths of 60 percent of Iraqi civilians killed in conflict over the last six months. The British broadcaster said on Friday in broadcasts and a news statement that its Panorama investigative show would air a report on Sunday citing "confidential" records from Iraq's health ministry to support the contention. Iraq's health minister said the BBC misinterpreted the statistics it had received and had ignored statements from the ministry clarifying the figures. "Today, the Iraqi Ministry of Health...

U.S. drops top Iraqi general from most-wanted list SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMThursday, April 24, 2003 The United States has left out the commander of President Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard from a list of most wanted Iraqis. Gen. Maher Sufian does not appear on the U.S. list of 55 most wanted Iraqis. Sufian was commander of the six Republican Guard units responsible for the defense of Baghdad. The absence of Sufian from the U.S. list has sparked claims that the Republican Guard commander struck a deal with the U.S.-led coalition. Arab diplomatic sources said Sufian is believed to have...