Due to the bad news that usually dominates the front page of NU.nl, the good news often falls away. That is why we make an overview of the positive and cheerful news of the past days.
‘Leiden’ vaccine enters large-scale testing phase
The corona vaccine that is developed Janssen Vaccines in Leiden, a subsidiary of the American pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, is entering a large-scale test phase. In the so-called third test phase, tens of thousands of volunteers are administered the drug to monitor side effects.
The pharmaceutical company wants to test at least 60,000 people over the age of 18 in the United States, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
Man finds lost daughter via newspaper appeal
After more than sixty years, a Dutch person (86) who had emigrated to Australia has contact with his daughter (65) thanks to a call in a newspaper, it reports. AD. In the past forty years he went to the Netherlands every five years to look for his child. The man wrote in his appeal in the paper that this was probably his last attempt due to his advanced age.
Gambia hamster rat receives gold medal for landmine detection
Gambia Hamsterrat Magawa has received a prestigious award for detecting landmines in Cambodia. During its career, the seven-year-old rodent has located a total of 39 landmines.
The animal was awarded by the British charity PDSA for its “lifesaving dedication to locating and defusing deadly landmines in Cambodia”.
Teen finds smartphone after fall from the sky
Thirteen-year-old Elke Verhoeven from Aarle-Rixtel in Brabant couldn’t be happier when she found her iPhone after she lost it at an altitude of 2.5 kilometers while paragliding in Austria.
After the trip, she tried to find out if the plane was still somewhere, the teenager told it AD. The girl sent a text from another phone and saw that the message was arriving. This meant not only that the phone was still working, but also that the device was nearby; she had no 4G connection and her phone was connected to the campsite’s wifi.
When she called her own phone, an Austrian cashier answered from a shop 50 meters from the campsite.
Old television caused internet problems in a village in Wales for a year and a half
Good news for the residents of Aberhosan, a village in Wales: after 18 months, the mystery surrounding the village’s internet problems has been solved. An old television caused the internet to go out every morning at 7am. The owner of the television has turned off the set.
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