A Russian doctor has been sentenced to three years in a Belarusian prison after he entered the country with a cannabis-themed souvenir that actually contained 0.2 percent cannabis. The Russian lymphologist, named as 34-year-old Vyacheslav Spiridonov, was enjoying a trip around Europe with his wife and friends when he encountered…
One of Russia's top doctors has claimed that coronavirus is sexually transmitted and advised people not to have sex during the outbreak. Chief urologist of the Russian Ministry of Health, Dmitry Pushkar, 56, advised citizens to avoid having sex during the COVID-19 pandemic as the virus is "sexually transmitted". Speaking…
A top German virologist has claimed drinking whisky can protect against COVID-19 infection. Dr Juergen Rissland, who is the head doctor at the Institute for Virology at Saarland University Hospital in Germany appeared on a programme broadcast on Sudwestrundfunk (SWR) in the south of the country. He was speaking on…
German health officials have cancelled the rule that doctors need to go into quarantine after being exposed to somebody infected with the COVID-19 virus. Previously medics have been sent into two weeks quarantine after coming into unprotected contact with a confirmed sufferer, but this has now been cancelled as the…
This young doctor who was working to treat coronavirus patients has died weeks after being infected in an emergency ward. Sara Bravo Lopez, 28, who worked in the health centre of Mota del Cuervo, in the central Spanish province of Cuenca, died this weekend from COVID-19 which she was infected…
