Mon 26 April 2021: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a lockdown in the country from April 29 to May 17 due to the situation with the coronavirus. The daily increase in the number of cases of coronavirus in Turkey on April 16 has hit a new high since the beginning of the pandemic at […]
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Mon 26 April 2021: South Africa is still on track to vaccinate at least 45 million people residing in the country, says Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize. In a statement on Monday, Mkhize said the first 1.1 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccines are ready for dispatch from the Gqeberha plant. […]
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Mon 26 April 2021: India’s daily coronavirus cases hit another global record Monday after the country registered 352,991 new infections, said the Health Ministry. The country’s total caseload rose to over 17 million while the death toll stood at 195,123, including a record 2,812 new fatalities. India has registered an exponential increase in daily cases […]
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Mon 26 April 2021: President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will be ready to welcome anyone who has been vaccinated against COVID-19 with shots approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). “All 27 member states will accept, unconditionally, all those who are vaccinated with vaccines that are approved by […]
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Sun 25 April 2021: The Italian medical authorities banned entry for people who have been in India in the past 2 weeks due to an outbreak of a mutated variant of the coronavirus in this country, Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Sunday. “I have signed a new order that prohibits entry to Italy […]
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Sun 25 April 2021: The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of India’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as cases of COVID-19 again hit a world record. Twitter has withheld some of the tweets after the legal request by the Indian […]
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Sun 25 April 2021: UPDATE: The death toll in the fire at a Baghdad hospital for treating coronavirus patients has increased to 82, while 110 others were injured, Iraqi state-run INA news agency reported on Sunday, citing the Interior Ministry. Earlier in the day, a member of the local supreme commission on human rights, Ali Al Bayati, said that 58 people had been killed in the fire. […]
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Sat 24 April 2021: As India suffers its worst humanitarian crisis amid the devastating second wave of COVID-19 with the fastest rise in new daily cases any country has experienced since the outbreak, the Chinese government and enterprises have made goodwill gestures by offering help or donating medical supplies despite sour bilateral ties. Chinese analysts, […]
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Sat 24 April 2021: Pakistani citizens are urging their Prime Minister to send oxygen and other medical supplies to India. According to NDTV, #IndiaNeedsOxygen was trending on Pakistani Twitter on Friday with users urging PM Imran Khan to aid Indian hospitals amid the current Covid crisis and oxygen shortage. #IndiaNeedsOxygen is trending in Pakistan where […]
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Sat 24 April 2021: Use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine should be resumed in the United States despite evidence that it is linked to extremely rare but potentially deadly blood clots, advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Friday. The jab was put on hold April 16 after exceedingly […]
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