Category: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

INDIA’S COVID-19 DEATHS MAY TOUCH 1 MILLION BY AUGUST, GOVT WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ‘SELF-INFLICTED NATIONAL CATASTROPHE’: LANCET

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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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INDIA RECORDS OVER 4,000 COVID-19 DEATHS FOR 2ND DAY IN ROW

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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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‘AFRICA IS ONLY REGION TO HAVE UNIFIED STRATEGY ON COVID-19’

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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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EU TRAVEL CERTIFICATES ON TRACK FOR JUNE LAUNCH – VON DER LEYEN

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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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US AIRPORTS SCREEN HIGHEST NUMBER OF PASSENGERS SINCE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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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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SAUDI ARABIA: ONLY VACCINATED EMPLOYEES ALLOWED TO ATTEND WORKPLACES

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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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‘WORRYING TREND’: SOUTH AFRICA RECORDS INCREASE IN COVID-19 INFECTIONS

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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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GLOBAL COVID-19 DEATH TOLL MORE THAN DOUBLE THE ESTIMATES: STUDY

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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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“ONLY THE BEGINNING, I FEAR”: RAHUL GANDHI’S COVID WARNING TO PM MODI

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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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