Fri 30 April 2021: Facebook hid posts with a hashtag calling for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resignation by mistake, not because of the Indian authorities’ request, Andy Stone, Facebook spokesperson, told BuzzFeed news. On Wednesday, the social network temporarily hid all posts with the hashtag #ResignModi citing community safety violation. All the posts were […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: Health authorities in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Romania, Switzerland and Belgium have detected cases of the so-called Indian variant, formally known as B.1.617. France’s southwestern region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine has registered the first case of the Indian mutant variant of COVID-19 a regional health agency director said. “We have determined that […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: Television journalist and senior anchor Rohit Sardana died of Covid on Friday, leaving journalists and others who knew him shocked and heartbroken. Rohit Sardana was with Aaj Tak and anchored a popular show ‘Dangal‘ that featured debates on current affairs. He earlier worked with Zee News, where he used to host […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: The UK-Swedish pharmaceutical AstraZeneca reported on Friday that its net profit doubled in the first quarter of 2021, with the COVID-19 vaccine developed with University of Oxford contributing $275 million to the $7.32 billion revenue growth during the period. According to the earnings statement, the company’s net profit reached $1.56 billion […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: Coronavirus crisis in India calls for introspection. There have been lapses And failures. Though it’s true that nobody could have predicted such a big surge, India could have been better prepared. It’s also true that mass religious and political events could have been called off. A blame game in the middle […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: France will lift the entry ban for foreign arrivals with a special COVID-19 certificate beginning from June 9 as part of a gradual exit from lockdown, French media reported on Thursday, citing President Emmanuel Macron. French president Emmanuel Macron has laid out full details of France’s reopening plan, including the relaxing […]
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Thu 29 April 2021: The calamitous COVID-19 outbreak in India is a wake-up call for Africa. African nations generally do not have sufficient numbers of healthcare workers, hospital beds or oxygen supplies – and the continent of 1.3 billion would be even more overwhelmed than India if cases surged in a similar way, said John […]
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Thu 29 April 2021: Professor Salim Abdool Karim has been appointed to the newly formed World Health Organisation (WHO) Science Council. According to the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), the Science Council was established earlier this month to guide WHO’s science research. The nine-member team comprises internationally renowned experts from around the world, who […]
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Thu 29 April 2021: India has registered 379,257 new COVID-19 cases within the past 24 hours, marking the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak, the national Ministry of Health said on Thursday. Two or three months into the COVID-19 crisis, Mumbai gravedigger Sayyed Munir Kamruddin stopped wearing personal protective equipment and gloves. As […]
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Wed 28 April 2021: Pfizer’s experimental oral drug to treat COVID-19 at the first sign of illness could be available before the end of the year, Chief Executive Albert Bourla told CNBC on Tuesday. The drug is part of a class of medicines called protease inhibitors and works by inhibiting an enzyme that the virus […]
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