Sun 04 July 2021: The United States is ready to use COVID-19 booster shots once experts recommend doing so, Jeffrey Zients, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said on Sunday. As the so-called Delta variant of the coronavirus continues spreading across the globe, some countries, such as the United Kingdom and Germany, are preparing to […]
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Sun 04 July 2021: Scientists at NMIMS University, Mumbai, have developed a battery-operated reusable mask that offers protection from airborne human pathogens. While regular masks protect from aerogel and large dust particles, they do not protect against most human pathogens. On the contrary, the new mask is four-layered cotton with a metallic mesh, which acts […]
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Sun 04 July 2021: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 5,637,941 as of Sunday noon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the 55-member African Union, said the death toll from the pandemic stands at 145,742 while 4,899,495 patients across […]
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Sun 04 July 2021: The world is in a very “dangerous period” of the coronavirus pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta — first detected in India — which is continuing to evolve and mutate, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned. “In countries with low COVID-19 vaccination coverage, terrible […]
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Sun 04 July 2021: Students in the United Kingdom are using TikTok to learn and share tips for faking positive Covid-19 tests as hundreds of thousands of pupils in “bubbles” are already being forced to miss school, The Guardian reported on Saturday. One UK science teacher told the publication students “say it’s a great way […]
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Sun 04 July 2021: Bangladesh received 4.5 million doses of coronavirus vaccines produced in the US and China early on Saturday morning, according to officials. Of these, 2.5 million were doses of the Moderna jab provided by the US as a gift through the COVAX facility, while 2 million were Chinese Sinopharm vaccines purchased by […]
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Sat 03 July 2021: The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) on Saturday announced that it had authorized the use of the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech. The latest vaccine approval was based on the “safety, quality and efficacy data” submitted to the regulator between March 22 and June 22, it said in a statement. “The authorisation […]
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Fri 02 July 2021: A study on vaccine efficacy against COVID-19 variants has shown that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine works better against the Delta variant, and gets better over time with both Delta and Beta variants. This follows a study conducted where 10 participants received one dose, and 10 participants received two doses of […]
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Fri 02 July 2021: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 5,551,886 as of Friday noon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the 55-member African Union, said the death toll from the pandemic stands at 143,779 while 4,841,460 patients across […]
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Fri 02 July 2021: The 19-member eurozone’s unemployment rate fell to 7.9 percent in May from 8.1 percent in April, the European Union’s (EU) statistical bureau Eurostat said on Thursday. In the EU, the unemployment rate was 7.3 percent in May, declining 0.1 percentage point over a month. About 15,278 million people were unemployed in […]
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