Sat 27 March 2021: The World Health Organization has warned the coronavirus pandemic could have a years-long effect on mental health. In the year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus a pandemic, billions of lives around the world have been upended. Experts have warned of the mental health toll amid an increase […]
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Sat 27 March 2021: Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday and said he was in home quarantine in Mumbai with mild symptoms of the disease. The world’s most successful international batsman took to Twitter to share the news, saying that he has quarantined himself at home. “I have been testing […]
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Sat 27 March 2021: Former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday that he believes the coronavirus originated and “escaped” from a Wuhan lab in China. “I’m of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathology in Wuhan was from a laboratory. […]
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Fri 26 March 2021: The UK government announced on Friday its decision to provide additional money to local councils for supporting self-isolated people. “To help people overcome the practical challenges of being asked to self-isolate, government has today (Friday 26 March) announced an extra 12. On top of this, £3.2 million per month has been […]
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Fri 26 March 2021: The European Union is currently at the start of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said. “We are at the start of the third wave in Europe, and in many European member states infections are on the rise again, mostly due to the variant B117,” von […]
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Fri 26 March 2021: UK lawmakers on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a six-month extension of the Coronavirus Act, the legislation that gives the government emergency powers to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, despite opposition from Conservative backbenchers. Members of Parliament voted 484-76 in favor of prolonging the legislation until September. The Coronavirus Act came into force back […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: Sputnik V vaccine doses that were seized into Mexico last week were either counterfeit or smuggled, the Central American nation’s president said Thursday. A light plane loaded with a 1,000 vials marked as the Russian vaccine was captured in the southern state of Campeche near the border with Guatemala. The Russian […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: Coronavirus cases continued to rise around the world for a fourth consecutive week, with around 3.3 million new cases reported in the past seven-day period, according to the UN health agency. The number of new deaths from the coronavirus leveled off after a six-week decrease, with just over 60,000 new deaths […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: The COVID-19 Sisonke vaccination roll out programme has been extended to 54 vaccine sites across the country, Acting Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, announced on Thursday. Briefing the media on the outcomes of the Cabinet meeting held on Wednesday, Ntshavheni said the programme has to date vaccinated more than 207 […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: The South African Health Department has confirmed that Professor Salim Abdool Karim has stepped down from the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on COVID-19, with effect from 23 March 2021. His resignation is exactly one year since he chaired the committee. Abdool Karim led a team of top scientists, who have been […]
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