Tue 11 May 2021: Doctors in India have warned that there is no scientific evidence for cow dung to be an effective cure to ward off coronavirus, saying that it risks spreading other diseases. The coronavirus pandemic has wrought devastation on India, with 22.66 million cases and 246,116 deaths reported so far. Experts say actual numbers could […]
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Tue 11 May 2021: COVID-19 cases and deaths are falling in most regions, including the worst affected Americas and Europe areas, but the “shocking global disparity” in vaccine access is one of the biggest risks to ending the pandemic, the World Health Organization chief said Monday. “We’re now seeing a plateau in the number of […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed on Monday that the government’s road map out of the COVID-19 lockdown in England will progress as planned with the implementation of Step 3 starting May 17. “Today we are announcing the single biggest step on our road map, it will allow us to […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: Dozens of decomposed bodies were seen floating in Ganga river in Bihar’s Buxar district on Monday morning. The bloated bodies later piled up on the banks of the river in Chausa, a village located about 11 km from Buxar city, on Bihar’s border with Uttar Pradesh. Dead bodies found floating […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed that four of the specimens it had, have tested positive for the COVID-19 B.1.617.2 variant. In a statement, the NICD said it had sequenced the COVID-19 specimens from individuals who had travelled to India. “The institute can confirm that four of the specimens […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: Beijing: A document written by Chinese scientists and health officials before the pandemic in 2015 states that SARS coronaviruses were a “new era of genetic weapons” that could be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleashed, reported Weekend Australian. The paper titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is now spreading fast in rural areas, Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said that not only cities, villages too are also left at the mercy of God. Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader also cited a media report about the rapid surge […]
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Sun 09 May 2021: COVID-19 deaths in India could potentially reach a “staggering” one million by August 1 this year, an editorial published in medical journal the Lancet said citing an estimate by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation – an independent global health research centre of the University of Washington. “The Institute for Health Metrics and […]
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Sun 09 May 2021: India again reported over 4,000 COVID-19 fatalities in a single day, taking the country’s death toll to 242,362, according to the data released by the Health Ministry on Sunday. New Delhi has struggled to contain the outbreak, which has overwhelmed its healthcare system, and many experts suspect the official death and case numbers […]
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Sun 09 May 2021: Africa is the only region to have developed a unified continental strategy for the coronavirus pandemic that has delivered results, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday. So far, Africa has administered 19.6 million doses, or 2% of the global total. Meanwhile, 80% of all doses administered globally […]
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