Sat 30 January 2021: The new strain of the novel coronavirus that first appeared in the United Kingdom will become more dominant in the United States by the middle of spring, US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said. “The projection that is made with regard to the UK [variant] is […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said the vaccine nationalism will prolong the COVID-19 pandemic as he expressed concern that some countries are rolling out vaccine only for their own citizens while the world’s least developed nations only wait and watch. Speaking at the last day of the week-long online […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: Saudi Arabia has postponed the reopening of its sea, land, and airports and has extended the travel ban for its citizens to May 17 instead of March 31, as a coronavirus countermeasure, the Kingdom’s Ministry of Interior announced on Friday. Due to the current global delays in vaccine deliveries by manufacturers […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: A spat between the UK and EU is brewing Friday regarding the bloc’s newly introduced export controls on the coronavirus vaccine flow to Northern Ireland. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the bloc must “urgently clarify” its intentions after the EU introduced controls on vaccines to be exported to Northern Ireland. […]
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Fri 29 January 2021: Russia’s population shrank by about half a million last year, its first contraction in 15 years, the country’s statistics agency said on Friday. Russia has a population of 146.2 million, according to newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, citing the agency. Experts attributed the decline mainly to the pandemic. There were 229,700 more deaths […]
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Fri 29 January 2021: The Department of Health has discouraged the use of Ivermectin vaccine for management of COVID-19, until the study on its efficacy and safety is concluded. In a statement on Thursday, department spokesperson Popo Maja said that the National Essential Medicines List Committee (NEMLC) COVID-19 Sub-Committee has carefully considered all available evidence […]
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Fri 29 January 2021: Seven in 10 workers on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic are female yet women are left out of many COVID-19 response and recovery plans, according to a global survey published on Thursday. The survey, by New York-based women’s rights advocacy group Women Deliver and Paris-based research organisation Focus 2030, […]
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Fri 29 January 2021: Chairperson of the African Union (AU), President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on the World Trade Organization to waiver specific Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) obligations related to the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 for a defined period. Together with India, South Africa has proposed a TRIPS waiver in response […]
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Fri 29 January 2021: More than half of the world’s airline pilots are no longer flying for a living amid the plunge in demand during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey, and those that are still flying feel less valued by their employers. A poll of nearly 2,600 pilots by UK-based GOOSE Recruitment […]
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Thu 28 January 2021: The United States economy continued to rebound in the final three months of 2020, but the weaker-than-expected boost was not enough to offset a contraction in the first quarter and an historic plunge in the second, leaving the world’s largest economy in the red for the year. US gross domestic product […]
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