October 20, 2021

Kuwait logs 21 coronavirus cases, no deaths

The Ministry of Health said Kuwait’s coronavirus caseload rose by 21 to 412,424 over the past 24 hours while the death toll from the viral disease remained unchanged at 2,458.Another 42 patients were cured, raising the overall recoveries to 409,449, th…

New York City Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines for City Workers

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a vaccine mandate for city workers Wednesday.The order calls for employees, including police officers and firefighters, to have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by October 29 or else they wil…

Pig-to-Human Transplants Come a Step Closer With New Test

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for lifesaving transplants.Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the org…