Thu 28 January 2021: “The world needs to spend billions to save trillions (and prevent millions of deaths).” That’s according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s annual letter published Wednesday. In the annual letter from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Microsoft co-founder and Billionaire philanthropist calls for billions of dollars in investments to develop a global […]
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Thu 28 January 2021: The first Tokyo Olympics test event of 2021 has been postponed because of travel restrictions under Japan’s coronavirus state of emergency, organisers confirmed Thursday. The artistic swimming event will double as the sport’s final qualifier for the virus-postponed Games. It was due to be held on March 4-7 in Tokyo but will now […]
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Wed 27 January 2021: Palestine on Wednesday said it plans to buy 100,000 doses of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine in February. The Palestinian health ministry has approved the main Russian vaccine against COVID-19, known as Sputnik V, for use in Palestinian self-ruled territory, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said earlier this month. The first shipment of the […]
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Wed 27 January 2021: More than 60 percent of adults would definitely or probably take a COVID-19 vaccine, a survey has found, as the country gears up to administer its first doses of the jab in the next coming weeks. This is contained in a survey by the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Human Sciences […]
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The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world on Tuesday surpassed 100 million since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the John Hopkins tally. More than 25.3 million cases were recorded in the US since the start of the pandemic. India has almost 10.7 million infections and Brazil exceeds 8.8 million. The global death toll […]
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Wed 27 January 2021: Urging respect for religious beliefs and health guidelines, the UK has said it has been raising the issue of forced cremation of COVID-19 victims’ bodies with authorities in Sri Lanka. Sarah Hulton, the UK ambassador to Sri Lanka, said in a tweet on Tuesday: “Families should be able to bury their […]
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Tue 26 January 2021: Patients critically ill with Covid-19 are unable to find hospital beds as Indonesia crosses the one-million cases mark and medical staff struggle to keep up. Health experts in Indonesia have warned that hospitals in some areas are on the brink of collapse as the nation passed one million confirmed cases of coronavirus. In […]
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Tue 26 January 2021: The report stated that television news channels used derogatory and communal catchphrases dehumanising the Muslim community The vilification of India’s 195 million Muslims by the media after the Tablighi Jamaat meet in New Delhi in March 2020 amid the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has prompted a women’s collective to record and study […]
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Tue 26 January 2021: COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: January 26, 2021, 15:24 GMT Coronavirus Cases: 100,401,592 Deaths: 2,152,820 Recovered: 72,437,660 Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Mauritius kick started COVID-19 Vaccination Mauritius has begun vaccinating against Covid-19in a bid to reopen its hard-hit tourism industry, Agence France Press reports. Health minister Kailesh Jagutpal said the campaign would initially […]
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Tue 26 January 2021: The International Monetary Fund has raised its forecast for global economic growth in 2021 and said the coronavirus-triggered downturn in 2020 would be nearly a full percentage point less severe than expected, Reuters reports. The IMF said multiple vaccine approvals and the launch of vaccinations in some countries in December had boosted […]
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