New Zealand has recorded 13 new COVID-19 cases overnight sparking fears the country will be locked down until October. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield on Friday said two of the new cases are in Tokoroa – 200km away from the outbreak in Auckland. The Tokoroa cases are linked to a member of the Auckland … Read more
New Zealand has recorded 13 new COVID-19 cases overnight sparking fears the country will be locked down until October. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield on Friday said two of the new cases are in Tokoroa – 200km away from the outbreak in Auckland. The Tokoroa cases are linked to a member of the Auckland … Read more
Scientists have found the remnant of a strange, dismembered globular cluster at the edge of our Milky Way galaxy, in the Phoenix constellation. Globular clusters are dense balls of about one million ancient stars, all bound by gravity, at the outermost edge of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope in the outback … Read more
China has been hit with a spike of coronavirus cases as a new COVID-19 infection cluster spreads to five regions across the country. The contagion link first emerged in a major port city in north-eastern China last week has spread to nine cities, including the Chinese capital Beijing, prompting officials to impose fresh restrictions to … Read more
Fears of a possible new outbreak in a Chinese region of over 100 million residents have escalated after two cities from the area went under Wuhan-style lockdown. Officials from Jilin province of north-eastern China appointed two hospitals today as designated coronavirus facilities to deal with the overwhelming spike of suspected COVID-19 patients. Chinese officials have … Read more
Eighteen Amish children – who mysteriously died over the course of 15 years – had all inherited a faulty gene from the same ancestor, a new report has found. Mutation of the RYR2 gene found in the heart muscle caused the organ to suddenly stop in the otherwise healthy boys and girls who were running about … Read more