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ZURICH( BLOOMBERG)-Switzerland's Federal Intelligence Service is warning of potential terrorist attacks on coronavirus vaccine infrastructure including vaccination centres, transport and manufacturing facilities, newspaper NZZ am Sonntag reported on Sunday( Aug 29)." Attacks on such targets would both hit large crowds and generate intensive media coverage," the agency' sspokesmanIsabelle Grabersaid in a written response to questions from NZZ. The agency is concerned about attacks from militantgr

The referendum offered a rare bellwether of public opinion on the issue of government policy to fight the spread of coronavirus in Europe, which is currently the global epicenter of the pandemic.... Infection rates have soared in recent weeks. The seven-day average case count in Switzerland shot up to more than 5, 200 per day from mid-October to mid-November, a more than five-fold increase.... Austria, meanwhile, has imposed a national lockdown to fight the rising infections....

" We need to look at how people get there, are they travelling in large crowded convoys of buses?... Italy, by comparison, registered just 776 daily cases.... The Delta variant is now spreading rapidly across Europe." The concern of an autumn surge is still there, but what we see now is that it might come even earlier," the WHO's Smallwood said. Switzerland's national soccer team plays Spain in St....

At a press briefing on Friday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the lack of vaccines in poor countries was exacerbating the delta variant's transmission.... He described a recent meeting he attended of an advisory group established to allocate vaccines.... " Tedros said the global community was failing and risked repeating the mistakes made during the AIDS crisis decades ago and during the 2009 swine flu pandemic--when vaccines only arrived in poor countries after the outbr

SAINT PETERSBURG( AFP)-Australia's largest city Sydney entered a two-week lockdown on Saturday( June 26) to contain a sudden coronavirus surge and Russia's Saint Petersburg announced a record death toll, as several European nations lifted restrictions despite the worrying spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. While vaccination drives have brought down infections in wealthy countries, the Delta strain, which first emerged in India, has fuelled fears that the pandemic may be far from over