Sat 27 February 2021: Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin, Turkish-German nationals who are the founders of the pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which invented one of the first COVID-19 vaccines, are to receive the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the presidential office announced Friday. Steinmeier will personally present the Federal Republic’s Great Cross […]
Continue Reading
Sat 27 February 2021: Several European countries are starting to loosen coronavirus measures at the beginning of March after months of lockdowns. Germany Germany, on Feb. 10, extended its coronavirus lockdown to March 7 due to concerns about highly contagious variants after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s met with premiers of 16 federal states via videoconference. They […]
Continue Reading
Sat 27 February 2021: A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization visited a virus research laboratory in China’s central city of Wuhan and met with a prominent virologist there in its search for clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The experts spent about 3-1/2 hours at the heavily-guarded Wuhan Institute […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
