A fake doctor has been arrested in Guatemala for trying to sell a bogus COVID-19 vaccine to an indigenous community. The suspect, identified as Rodolfo Garcia, was arrested in the municipality of Chisec in the northern Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz after he reportedly tried to sell a fake vaccine…
Wuhan police have apologised to the family of Chinese coronavirus whistleblower Doctor Li Wenliang following his death last month. The 33-year-old Wuhan Central Hospital ophthalmologist died of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the early hours of 7th February and he subsequently was hailed as a martyr. However, as early as December 2019,…
A Russian knitting enthusiast has started knitting these eery ‘plague doctor’ masks in the light of the global shortage of face masks in the coronavirus pandemic. Julia Pupkina, 37, is a resident of the city of Chelyabinsk in the south-eastern Russian oblast of the same name and has decided to…
This father of two is trapped in his own body being fully conscious but barely able to move or talk after doctors repeatedly misdiagnosed his stroke. Ivan Smirnov, 36, from the city of Chelyabinsk in the south-eastern Russian Oblast of the same name, has been diagnosed with locked-in syndrome and…
The family of a Chinese doctor who died after treating more than 3,000 patients in a month inside a virus-hit city has won a successful appeal against government officials who refused to rule his death as work-related. Doctor Liu Wenxiong, 50, died of a heart attack in his home on…
