(dpa) – Berlin – Researchers have named a newly discovered fly species in Kosovo after the coronavirus. Potamophylax coronavirus was discovered several years ago in a national park in the country, but researchers only described the caddisfly species scientifically during the pandemic-related quarantine, they report in the Biodiversity Data Journal. The name is a reminder…

Berlin (dpa) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday welcomed the «important, urgent» decision by her Cabinet to approve new national measures to stem high coronavirus infection numbers. The so-called «emergency brake» would mean an end to inconsistencies between policies by Germany’s 16 federal states, she said, and would kick in «automatically» when infections numbers…

New Delhi (dpa) – India has granted emergency use approval for Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine and has fast-tracked the clearance of foreign-made vaccines as the country battles a deadly second wave of the pandemic. Russia’s sovereign wealth fund RDIF said the drug controller general of India had approved the use of Sputnik V –…