Mon 31 May 2021: The European Commission has approved the use of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in minors aged 12 and over, the EU health commissioner said on Monday. “Member States can now choose to expand their vaccination rollout to young people,” Stella Kyriakides tweeted. The announcement by the EU’s executive arm comes three […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: A shocking video of a body of Covid patient being thrown in a river has surfaced from India’s Uttar Pradesh, where thousands of bodies buried in shallow graves by the Ganga and some dumped in the river made headlines around the world a couple of weeks ago. The Indian government has […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: Over 1.87 billion coronavirus vaccine shots have so far been given worldwide, figures compiled by Our World in Data, a tracking website, showed on Sunday. China leads the global count with 620.97 million jabs, followed by the US with 293.71 million. India has administered 207.09 million shots, Brazil 66.93 million, and […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: South Africa’s overnight curfew has been extended and government has limited the number of people allowed at gatherings in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19 as positive cases surge. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday introduced new COVID-19 restrictions to help curb the spread of the coronavirus as the country […]
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Sun 30 May 2021: The UK government is mulling compulsory coronavirus vaccinations for National Health Service staff, the minister for COVID-19 vaccine deployment told the BBC. “It would be irresponsible for us as a government and ministers not to ask that question, not to think about it and consider it, because clearly, people [are] being […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, health officials confirmed Saturday. “We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains,” Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long told a national meeting on the pandemic Saturday, according […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: The United Kingdom may keep some COVID-19 restrictions, including wearing face masks and prioritizing work from home, after the June 21 target for the next stage of exiting lockdown as the country faces a surge in cases of the Indian COVID-19 variant, national media reported on Saturday. According to The Times, […]
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Fri 28 May 2021: Half of all US adults will have received full Covid-19 vaccines on Tuesday, the White House said, marking another huge milestone in the fight against the pandemic. “Today, the United States will reach 50 percent of American adults fully vaccinated,” a White House official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. More […]
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Fri 28 May 2021: The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved the Johnson & Johnson single-dose coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine for use in the United Kingdom, Health Minister Matt Hancock announced on Friday. “This is a further boost to the UK’s hugely successful vaccination programme, which has already saved over 13,000 lives, […]
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Fri 28 May 2021: The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Thursday said less than 2% of the continent’s population have been inoculated, appealing to the international community to provide the required number of vaccine doses to the continent considering this a “collective security issue.” “We are not winning the vaccination battle […]
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