Sun 27 June 2021: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, has removed an option for visitors to apply for COVID-19 vaccines from a dedicated mobile app, although a hotline run by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) last week said tourists were eligible, reports Reuters. SEHA, which operates the emirate’s health infrastructure, had […]
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Sun 27 June 2021: UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock bowed to public pressure to resign after being caught kissing a friend and paid adviser. The frontman for Britain’s response to the pandemic, particularly the nationwide vaccine roll-out, quit in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “We owe it to people who have sacrificed so […]
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Sat 26 June 2021: Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters marched through central London on Saturday, with the prime minister’s Downing Street residence and parliament both pelted with tennis balls. England was meant to have lifted all restrictions on June 21, but a rise in cases due to the emergence of the Delta variant, first identified in […]
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Sat 26 June 2021: New Zealand announced a three-day suspension of its quarantine-free travel arrangement with Australia on Saturday, with the government citing “multiple” outbreaks of Covid-19 in Australian states and territories. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said the suspension would give officials time to consider measures “to make the bubble safer, such as pre-departure […]
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Sat 26 June 2021: The head of the World Health Organization has said the Covid-19 variant first seen in India, also known as the delta variant, is “the most transmis sible of the variants identified so far” and that it is now spreading in at least 85 countries. At a press briefing on Friday, WHO […]
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Sat 26 June 2021: India has confirmed 48,698 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 30,183,143, the country’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Saturday. The death toll from the disease has reached 394,493 people, with 1,183 new fatalities being recorded […]
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Fri 25 June 2021: The world’s inability to provide enough Covid-19 vaccines for poor countries is a global failure that highlights injustice, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday. “It’s not hesitancy. It’s lack of vaccines. And the situation in many low-income countries, especially Africa, it’s very worrisome,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. […]
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Fri 25 June 2021: Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has received the first coronavirus vaccine developed by Iran, state TV reported Friday. Khamenei said that he was not interested in taking foreign-made vaccines, because it is better to “wait for the Iranian vaccine because we have to be proud of this national honor.” In January, Khamenei […]
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Fri 25 June 2021: Acting Health Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, has announced that those aged 50 and above will get the chance to receive their COVID-19 vaccines from 15 July 2021. The Acting Minister announced this on Friday, following approval by the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Vaccines. Registration will open from 1 July. The Minister also […]
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Fri 25 June 2021: Over 2.84 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines have so far been given worldwide, figures compiled by Our World in Data, a tracking website, showed on Friday. China leads the global count with more than 1.12 billion jabs, followed by the US with 320.69 million. India has administered 300.05 million shots, Brazil […]
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