Fri 26 February 2021: Leaders from the European Union’s (EU) 27-member states came to together for a virtual summit on Thursday with the aim of, the implementation and use of vaccine passports and the potential for conflict arising from national border closings. The European Commission is working on a COVID-19 data system to be introduced throughout the […]
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Fri 26 February 2021: Sri Lanka finally lifted the controversial ban on the burial of bodies of people whose deaths were caused by the COVID-19, a health ministry spokesman said. PM Imran thanked the Sri Lankan government for taking this step and respecting the sentiments of the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka The ban was […]
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Thu 25 February 2021: Government is working tirelessly to deal with the danger of fake news in the fight against COVID-19 and the vaccination plan. Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, believes that while social media is beneficial for communicating, it can be easily hijacked to spread false claims about inoculation. “What […]
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Thu 25 February 2021: A Danish study has found that people infected with a more contagious coronavirus variant first identified in Britain have a higher risk of being hospitalized, the country’s Serum Institute said on Wednesday. Out of 2,155 people infected with the variant codenamed B117 in the institute’s study, 128 were hospitalized, a rate […]
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Wed 24 February 2021: In support of government’s quest to inoculate 67 percent of the South African population, the National Treasury will inject an amount of R9 billion to the country’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. This was on Wednesday revealed by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni while delivering the 2021 Budget Speech in Parliament. With South Africa […]
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Wed 24 February 2021: Bill Gates, a business magnate and philanthropist, also widely known as a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, in his recent interview aired by MSNBC a few weeks ago has shared his insights about the risk of the “next pandemic” that could be following the current COVID-19 in near future. Back […]
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Wed 24 February 2021: COVID-19 lockdowns forced us all to stay in our homes without much entertainment. People are working where they live, social contacts are limited and the outcome of all of this is less than clear. How did people react to this – did they start drinking more? Scientists at the University of […]
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Wed 24 February 2021: The European Union is preparing the ground for vaccine passports. A common approach for mutual recognition of vaccination documentation is of the “utmost importance,” the commission said earlier this month, adding that it wants “an appropriate trust framework” to be agreed upon by the end of January — “to allow member states’ […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: Argentina’s government has published a list of 70 influential figures who have received preferential vaccine treatment, receiving their COVID-19 vaccinations ahead of others at the Posadas Hospital in Buenos Aires. The decision to transparently publish a list came after a meeting between the Cabinet Chief, Santiago Cafiero, and the new Minister […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: A single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine can reduce coronavirus transmission in the wider population as well as infection in an individual, research has revealed for the first time. The vaccine provides up to 70 per cent protection against asymptomatic infection in working age adults, and cuts the chance of hospital admission […]
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