Mon 17 May 2021: Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that foreign visitors arriving by air from most countries will no longer need to quarantine if they have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Visitors from 20 other countries – including the United States, India, Britain, Germany, France and the United Arab Emirates – remain banned from entering […]
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Mon 17 May 2021: India’s daily coronavirus cases on Monday dropped below 300,000, the Health Ministry data showed. According to the ministry, 281,386 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, taking the total cases to 24.96 million. The daily virus-linked death toll has, however, remained over 4,000 for the second consecutive day on Monday, […]
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Mon 17 May 2021: The British health secretary said that the Indian variant of coronavirus could “spread like wildfire” among the unvaccinated. In an interview with Sky News on Sunday, Matt Hancock said there is a “high degree of confidence” that existing vaccines work well against the new variant, but those who are eligible for […]
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Sun 16 May 2021: More than 1.4 billion coronavirus vaccine shots have so far been given worldwide, figures by the Our World in Data showed on Saturday. China is the most vaccinated country with 366.91 million jabs, according to the website data. It is followed by the US with more than 268.4 million shots. India […]
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Sun 16 May 2021: The inoculation of frontline and healthcare workers against coronavirus in Delhi is less than the national average, Member (Health) of the Niti Aayog VK Paul said on Saturday. Responding to a question in a media briefing, Mr Paul said the overall coverage of single-dose for healthcare workers is 89 per cent. […]
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Sat 15 May 2021: At least a dozen people have been arrested by the Delhi Police over posters criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic that came up in the past few days in the capital, sources told NDTV on Saturday. The police have registered more than 13 First Information Reports or […]
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Sat 15 May 2021: More than 1.4 billion coronavirus vaccine jabs have been administered worldwide, according to the Our World in Data website. China is the most vaccinated country with 366.91 million jabs, said the site, followed by the US with more than 266.5 million. India has 178.36 million, the UK with 54.8 million, Brazil […]
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Fri 14 May 2021: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday expressed concern over the epidemiological situation in India, as the country continues to struggle with increasing numbers of coronavirus infections and shortages of oxygen in hospitals. Nations worldwide have sent assistance to India, hit by a spike in COVID-19 cases. The […]
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Fri 14 May 2021: The UK COVID-19 vaccination campaign could be sped up to immunize people over 18 years old in regions of England where a spike of the coronavirus variant first identified in India has been recently reported, Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Friday. “The clinicians will look at all of this to […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: China’s Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng said on Thursday that Beijing supports a proposal by the World Trade Organization for an intellectual property protection waiver on COVID-19 vaccines to enter the consultation stage. British and European Union officials have been skeptical about the usefulness of a US proposal to waive patent […]
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