Sat 08 May 2021: The green digital certificates were proposed last month by the European Commission as a way to facilitate safe free movement inside the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Union is on track to launch travel certificates in June, with political agreement possible by the end of May, European Commission President […]
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Sat 08 May 2021: A day after reporting the world’s highest daily surge, India today saw more than 4,187 deaths linked to Covid in a day for the first time and 401,078 new cases in the last 24 hours. The government yesterday said a third Covid wave may not happen if strong measures are taken. […]
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Fri 07 May 2021: US airports screened a record 1.64 million passengers on Thursday, the highest number of passengers on a single day since the start of the pandemic, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said on Friday. “TSA screened 1,644,050 people at security checkpoints yesterday, Thursday, May 6,” Farbstein said, according to Sputnik. […]
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Fri 07 May 2021: Saudi Arabia on Friday announced that only vaccinated workers would be allowed to attend their workplaces. According to state TV Al Ekhbariya, the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Development said that inoculation against Covid would be required for employees to be allowed back into offices. #وزارة_الموارد_البشرية تشترط الحصول على اللقاح لحضور مقرات […]
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Fri 07 May 2021: Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, has expressed concern over the increase of COVID-19 cases in the country in the past two weeks. “… We have noticed a worrying trend of increasing numbers of detected cases in a number of districts. The Free State, Gauteng, Northern Cape and North West are of […]
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Fri 07 May 2021: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused nearly 6.9 million deaths across the world, more than double the number officially recorded, a new analysis from the University of Washington, DC’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) estimated. Deaths go unreported as most countries only record those that occur in hospitals or of […]
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Fri 07 May 2021: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, urging him to “scientifically track the virus and its mutations” and cautioning him against allowing mutated versions of the SARS-CoV2 virus from spreading unchecked through the country. Mr Gandhi reminded the Prime Minister of the population size and genetic […]
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Fri 07 May 2021: British officials could declare one of the new coronavirus strains first found in India a “variant of concern”, the BBC and Guardian reported on Friday, due to evidence that it spreads more quickly than the original version of the virus. Scientists and doctors have recommended that one version of the variant first found […]
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Fri 07 May 2021: Bees trained by researchers in the Netherlands can identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding which could cut waiting times for test results to just seconds. Bees already have an unusually keen sense of smell, a feature the researchers made use of. To train the bees, scientists in the bio-veterinary research […]
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Fri 07 May 2021: While thousands in the country are mourning the loss of loved ones falling victim to the coronavirus pandemic, and communities are coming forward to help one another amid the unprecedented health crisis, media in India continue to demonize the Muslim community. On Tuesday, Financial Times, in its article titled “Is a new […]
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