Tue 09 February 2021: GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization said Monday the emergence of new COVID-19 variants has raised questions about whether or not existing vaccines will work, calling it “concerning news” that the vaccines developed so far may be less effective against the variant first detected in South Africa. Tedros […]
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Tue 09 February 2021: Members of a World Health Organization-led team looking for clues about the origins of COVID-19 will hold a briefing on Tuesday after nearly a month of meetings and site visits in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the disease was first identified. The WHO said the briefing was scheduled for 4pm local […]
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Mon 08 February 2021: South Africa has temporarily suspended the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after new studies released last week showed that it is less effective against the mutated SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 variant, which is common in South Africa. On 1 February, the country received its first shipment of one million Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine doses out […]
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Mon 08 February 2021: A teenager who is emerging from a 10-month long coma has no knowledge of the coronavirus pandemic despite having caught the disease twice. Joseph Flavill, 19, suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was hit by the car in the central English town of Burton-on-Trent on March 1 last year, about […]
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Sun 07 February 2021: Britain will not introduce COVID-19 vaccine passports, but people will be able to seek proof from their doctor if needed for travel to other countries, vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday. “We are certainly not looking to introduce it as part of the vaccine deployment programme,” Zahawi told Sky […]
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Sun 07 February 2021: The world has around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said on Thursday, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots in a world first. Thousands of variants have been documented as the virus mutates, including the […]
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Sat 06 February 2021: The head of the IMF on Friday urged advanced economies to provide more resources to low-income countries, warning of an emerging “Great Divergence” in global growth that could risk the stability and trigger social unrest for years to come. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told reporters that 50% of […]
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Sat 06 February 2021: The number of vaccinations against COVID-19 has now overtaken the number of reported infections globally, but more than three-quarters of vaccinations are in just 10 countries, the World Health Organization chief Tedros said on Friday. “In one sense, that’s good news and a remarkable achievement in such a short timeframe,” said […]
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Thu 04 February 2021: The National Consumer Commission (NCC) of South Africa has launched an investigation into allegations of price gouging relating to garlic and ginger. “The law defines price gouging as an unfair or unreasonable price increase that does not correspond to or is not equivalent to the increase in the cost of providing […]
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Thu 04 February 2021: The World Heath Organization is deploying teams across Syria for a vaccination programme that will be rolled out both in government-held areas and territory outside state control, perhaps as soon as April, it said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Dr Akjemal Magtymova, WHO representative in Damascus, said the body’s COVAX programme plans to immunize […]
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