Fri 12 March 2021: Thailand on Friday suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine following a ban in several European countries over reports of severe or fatal blood clots in vaccinated people. The country’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and some Cabinet members were scheduled to be vaccinated on Friday morning, but the plan was abruptly […]
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Fri 12 March 2021: Palestinians received 40,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine on Thursday, a donation by the United Arab Emirates that could boost a long-time rival of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of an election, reported Reuters. Mohammad Dahlan, who fell out with Abbas and was dismissed from the president’s Fatah party more than […]
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Fri 12 March 2021: Malaysia, which is currently under a state of emergency that has suspended parliament, has brought in a new law to tackle “fake news”, raising renewed concerns about freedom of speech in the Southeast Asian nation. The government announced the legislation under its emergency powers on Thursday night saying it was necessary […]
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Fri 12 March 2021: Tanzania’s main opposition leader said on Thursday that President John Magufuli, who has not been seen in public for nearly two weeks, is in India receiving medical treatment for the virus and is in a serious condition. Tanzanian government spokesmen have stayed mum during days of speculation over the 61-year-old Magufuli’s […]
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Fri 12 March 2021: Videos containing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation will be removed from YouTube, the platform announced today. Content about a vaccine that contradicts information from health experts or the World Health Organization won’t be permitted. YouTube has deleted more than 30,000 videos that contained misinformation about COVID-19 vaccinations since October, according to the company’s […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: Seven European countries – Denmark, Norway, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg – have suspended all or part of their AstraZeneca vaccine roll-out as a precaution while they investigate concerns relating to blood clots. Denmark will not use AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine for two weeks after reports that some recipients had developed serious blood clots, and […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: Over half of the population in UK believes the coronavirus outbreak has driven greater social inequality over the past few months. The Social Mobility Commission said its annual survey of public attitudes revealed 56% of adults believed social inequality had increased during the pandemic. A quarter said Covid had made no difference to […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: Health Minister, Dr Zwelini Mkhize, says government remains committed to vaccinate 65% of the population, or 40 million people, as per the original plan by the end of the year to help the country reach herd immunity. This, he said, is owing to vaccine doses being delivered by the manufacturing companies […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: Austria’s national medicines regulator has suspended use of a batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine after four patients were diagnosed with dangerous blood clotting conditions after receiving the jab, PA reports. Four other countries – Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia – have suspended its use to allow time for the EMA’s Pharmacovigilance Risk […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: Exodus looms as thousands of nurses die since WHO declared coronavirus a pandemic At least 3,000 nurses have died from Covid-19, the global nurses’ federation has said as it warned of a looming exodus of health workers traumatised by the pandemic. The World Health Organisation first described the virus as a […]
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