Thu 08 April 2021: Both the IMF managing director and World Bank president expressed alarm over growing global economic inequality on Wednesday after a second day of their organisations’ spring meetings. Unprecedented policy response and speedy vaccine development helped pull the global economy back from the brink last year, but the outlook is still marked […]
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Thu 08 April 2021: New cases overtake Wednesday’s 115,736 infections, with dozens of cities and towns imposing night curfews to try to contain the second wave. India on Thursday reported a record single-day high of 126,789 new Covid-19 cases, pushing its infection tally to 1,29,28,574, while the number of active cases too went upwards to […]
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Wed 07 March 2021: UK-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said on Wednesday it was working to establish the causes of blood clots after vaccination against coronavirus with its drug, but emphasized that these were very rare cases. Earlier in the day, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency recommended that people under 30 years of […]
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Wed 07 April 2021: An incident of appalling cruelty in India’s Madhya Pradesh has taken place following the Central and state governments’ order to enforce safety measures for Covid. A man in Indore was severely beaten up by two policemen, allegedly for his failure to wear a mask properly. The mask of Krishna Keyer, a 35-year-old […]
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Wed 07 April 2021: South Africa has signed a deal for the procurement of 20 million doses of Pfizer vaccines. According to the announcement made by Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, payment processes are also underway to close the deal in the next few days. In addition, with the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) agreement also […]
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Wed 06 March 2021: There is not enough data to suggest whether vaccines prevent transmission of the coronavirus and whether the use of vaccine passports would be an effective strategy, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday. In a UN news briefing, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said not everyone has access to vaccines […]
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Wed 07 April 2021: The USA could be on the brink of a “disturbing surge” in COVID cases as worshippers pack out churches and some 1.6 million people fly over the Easter weekend, top US pandemics expert Anthony Fauci warned on Tuesday. Speaking with CNN over the weekend, he said: “Just yesterday, we had over […]
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Wed 07 April 2021: The University of Oxford said it had suspended administering doses of the vaccine against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) it developed with AstraZeneca in a UK study on children and teenagers aged 6-17, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. The pause is due to rare blood-clotting issues in adults who took […]
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Mon 05 March 2021: The World Health Organization (WHO) confirms the possibility of transmission of COVID-19 from humans to cats, dogs, minks, raccoon dogs, lions and tigers, and studies the effects of the virus on other animal species, WHO Representative to Russia Melita Vujnovic told Sputnik on Monday. “The COVID-19 virus spreads mainly through human-to-human […]
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Mon 05 March 2021: A fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic has started across Iran as the country experiences a fresh spike in the infection cases, Sima Sadat Lari, the spokeswoman for the country’s Ministry of Health and Medical education, told Sputnik. Alireza Raisi, a spokesman for the country’s COVID-19 response center, earlier said that […]
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