Thu 22 April 2021: India has registered 314,835 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. The total number of those who tested positive for the coronavirus in India has reached 15,930,965, according to the ministry. Within the same period of time, […]
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Thu 22 April 2021: The US pharmaceutical company of Pfizer has identified fake doses of its vaccine against COVID-19 in Mexico and Poland, The Wall Street Journal reported. In Mexico, some 80 people got fraudulent vaccines at a clinic for about $1,000 per dose. The doses also had fake labels. “We are cognizant that in […]
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Wed 21 April 2021: Twenty-two COVID-19 patients died in Maharashtra’s Nashik today after an oxygen tanker leaked outside a hospital, disrupting supply to patients for around 30 minutes. “As per current information, 22 people have died due to the interrupted supply of oxygen at the Zakir Hussain municipal hospital,” district collector Suraj Mandhare told NDTV. […]
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Wed 21 April 2021: India’s daily COVID-19 cases reached a new high early Wednesday after the country registered over 295,000 infections and more than 2,000 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to Health Ministry figures. Healthcare and other essential services across India are close to collapse as a second coronavirus wave that started in mid-March tears […]
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Tue 20 April 2021: Blood clots should be listed as a “very rare” side effect of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine but its benefits still outweigh the risks, the EU’s drug watchdog said on Tuesday. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in a statement that it had found a “possible link” between the jab […]
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Tue 20 April 2021: Malaysian opposition lawmakers led by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad submitted a petition to the country’s king on Tuesday seeking an end to a coronavirus emergency, saying it had transformed the country into a “dictatorship”. The king approved Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s plan for an emergency in early January to curb […]
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Tue 20 April 2021: Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, says government is hoping to inoculate 46.2 million South Africans by March 2022. However, this is provided the country receives the millions of vaccines that the nation has secured from drug makers. “This tally excludes the 500 000 that will be vaccinated under the Sisonke Protocol. […]
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Tue 20 April 2021: New cases of COVID-19 increased for the eighth week in a row, with more than 5.2 million reported — the most in a week so far — and alarming hospitalizations among people aged 25-59 worldwide, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. “Deaths rose for the fifth straight […]
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Mon 19 April 2021: The Indian capital will be under a strict lockdown for six days starting on Monday night, Delhi state’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, adding the healthcare system was at a breaking point because of the worsening COVID-19 outbreak. “If we don’t impose a lockdown now, we will be looking at a […]
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Sun 18 April 2021: South Africa’s health watchdog SAPHRA has recommended resuming the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, days after it was paused over blot clotting concerns. South Africa stopped administering the US-made vaccine after the US food and Drug Administration said that six women aged 18 to 48 had developed a rare […]
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