Fri 28 May 2021: Facebook’s spokesperson has announced that the social network will no longer delete posts that describe the coronavirus as artificially created. The announcement follows a Sunday story by the Wall Street Journal about three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China getting sick in November, citing US intelligence data. The […]
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Thu 27 May 2021: Over 1.77 billion coronavirus vaccine shots have so far been given worldwide, figures compiled by Our World in Data, an online portal, showed on Thursday. China is the most-vaccinated country with 566.72 million jabs, according to the data, followed by the US with 289.21 million. India has administered 202.7 million jabs, […]
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Thu 27 May 2021: A coronavirus variant first found in India is spreading across Britain and it is too soon to say whether the country can fully drop COVID-19 restrictions on June 21, health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday. “The Indian variant is spreading across the country,” Hancock told parliament. “My assessment is that it is […]
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Thu 27 May 2021: Japanese carmaker Nissan is suspending operations at its plant in Tamil Nadu state in southern India to ensure the safety of employees amid an increasing number of infected people in the country, Japanese Kyodo news agency reported. The company will cease its activity for five days from May 26 to May […]
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Thu 27 May 2021: Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) has come across a first-of-its-kind case of White Fungus which causes multiple perforations throughout the intestine in a COVID-19 patient, doctors said today. “White Fungus (Candida) causing multifocal perforations in the food pipe, small bowel and large bowel in COVID-19 infection has not been reported […]
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Wed 26 May 2021: People in South Korea will no longer have to wear masks outside starting July if they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Wednesday. The initiative is reportedly part of a program on incentives, unveiled at a daily interagency COVID-19 response […]
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Wed 26 May 2021: South African elite athletes will be vaccinated through the Sisonke Study ahead of international sporting events including the Tokyo Games kicking off in July. This comes after the approval granted by the South African Health Product Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) to make available a “modest” number of the remaining COVID-19 Johnson & […]
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Wed 26 May 2021: A Turkish military plane carrying medical supplies to fight COVID-19 left on Tuesday for India’s capital New Delhi, Turkey’s Defense Ministry announced on Twitter. The plane was carrying medical supplies, including 630 oxygen tubes, five oxygen generators, 50 ventilators, and 50,000 boxes of tablet medicines prepared by the Turkish Red Crescent […]
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Mon 24 May 2021: Over 1.67 billion coronavirus vaccine shots have been given worldwide, with Turkey among the top 10 countries for jabs given, figures compiled by Our World in Data, an online portal, showed on Monday. China was the most-vaccinated country with 510.86 million jabs, according to the data, followed by the US with […]
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Mon 24 May 2021: India is now one of three countries in the world, along with the US and Brazil, where the coronavirus death toll stands at over 300,000 according to updated Health Ministry data. Experts warn that the real number of fatalities might be much higher as many deaths are not officially recorded. India […]
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