Mon 07 June 2021: Over 200 former prime ministers, presidents and foreign ministers are among 230 prominent figures calling on the leaders of the powerful G7 countries to pay two-thirds of the $66 billion needed to vaccinate low-income countries against Covid, Report informs referring to the Guardian. “Support from the G7 and G20 that makes […]
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Sat 05 June 2021: The number of coronavirus cases across the UK is beginning to increase again, as the Indian variant of the virus continues to spread across the country and becomes its most dominant strain. On Friday, the country recorded 6,238 new cases and between May 29 and June 4, 29,028 people had a […]
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Sat 05 June 2021: The coronavirus death toll in Brazil has exceeded 470,000 people, the country’s Ministry of Health said in a statement. According to the ministry, the overall number of registered cases of COVID-19 in the country stands at 16,841,408, with 470,842 deaths. Over the past 24 hours, doctors in Brazil have recorded […]
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Fri 04 June 2021: Employees at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, whose medical histories were urged to be made public by the chief infectious disease specialist of the US, Anthony Fauci, are not related to the initial phases of COVID-19 spread, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday. The Financial Times reported that […]
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Fri 04 June 2021: The Indian strain of the coronavirus has overtaken the British one as the dominant variant in the United Kingdom, with cases linked to the Delta mutation rising by 5,472 since last week to 12,431, Public Health England said Thursday. “Although there is some regional variation, PHE experts now believe that […]
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Fri 04 June 2021: A study with cell cultures suggests that the experimental drug Tempol may be a promising antiviral treatment for COVID-19, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on Thursday. “Tempol can limit SARS-CoV-2 infection by impairing the activity of a viral enzyme called RNA replicase,” the NIH said in a press release. […]
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Fri 04 June 2021: Donald Trump responded to newfound credibility of allegations that China created the novel coronavirus in a biological research laboratory by putting a price on damage to the United States and the world at $10 trillion, according to a statement issued by the former US president’s Save America organization. “Now everybody, […]
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Thu 03 June 2021: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Vice President Kamala Harris spoke by phone on Thursday about COVID-19 vaccine supplies to India as part of the US strategy for global vaccine-sharing. “I deeply appreciate the assurance of vaccine supplies to India .. . I also thanked her for the all […]
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Thu 03 June 2021: Africa’s healthcare system is “far from ready” to cope with a fresh surge of coronavirus infections with vaccine deliveries at a near standstill and cases surging in many countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. “Many African hospitals and clinics are still far from ready to cope with a huge […]
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Thu 03 June 2021: President Bashar al-Assad was among those to be vaccinated after Syria received a first shipment of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, citing the Syrian ambassador to Russia. Ambassador Riad Haddad did not say how big the shipment was but said the vaccine was now […]
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