Sat 24 April 2021: The UK Treasury borrowed 303.1 billion Pounds ($421 billion) in the financial year ending in March 2021 to pay for the schemes the government implemented to keep workers in jobs and support businesses while trying to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday. “The coronavirus […]
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Fri 23 April 2021: India is going through terrible situation amid a record number of coronavirus cases and new variants reported, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said in a briefing on Friday. “Obviously, India is going through a very terrible situation right now. They had yesterday, the largest number of […]
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Fri 23 April 2021: Researches at the UK’s University of Oxford have found that pregnant women and newborns face higher risks of health complications associated with COVID-19, according to a fresh study. “A study of more than 2,100 pregnant women across 18 countries worldwide has revealed that COVID-19 is associated with a higher risk of […]
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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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