Tue 26 January 2021: Saudi Arabia’s finance minister said on Tuesday his country was talking to manufacturers to provide COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries including Yemen and African states. “We are negotiating with a lot of the vaccination companies to provide more vaccinations particularly to low income countries,” Mohammed al-Jadaan told the virtual World Economic […]
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Tue 26 January 2021: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday said the COVID-19 pandemic is “far from over,” urging global cooperation and strengthening of multilateralism to continue the fight against the contagion. Guided by science, reason, and the humanitarian spirit, the world has achieved initial progress in the fight against COVID-19, but the pandemic is […]
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Tue 26 January 2021: Almost every country in the world will see an increase in inequality due to the pandemic, for the first time since records began, according to Oxfam report. The study was released on the opening day of the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of world, civic and business leaders, which is taking […]
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Mon 25 January 2021: COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: January 25, 2021, 08:12 GMT Coronavirus Cases: 99,804,787 Deaths: 2,139,791 Recovered: 71,797,201 Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Israel ‘closes skies’ to air travel to prevent virus spread Israel on Sunday announced a week-long ban on most incoming and outgoing flights in a bid to slow the spread of new […]
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Mon 25 January 2021: Mexico’s president announced Sunday that he has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and has started medical treatment. “I regret to inform you that I’m infected with Covid-19. The symptoms are mild and I’m already under medical treatment. As always, I am optimistic. We will pull through,” Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on […]
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Sun 24 January 2021: One of England’s leading medical officers on Sunday urged the public to continue to follow the strict lockdown rules because any vaccine-related immunity from COVID-19 takes at least three weeks to kick in. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, also warned that there is no clear evidence yet to […]
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Sun 24 January 2021: Rioting youths protesting on the first night of a Dutch curfew have torched a coronavirus testing facility and threw fireworks at police in a Dutch fishing village. Police said they fined more than 3,600 people nationwide for breaching the curfew that ran from 9 pm on Saturday until 4:30 am on […]
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Sun 24 January 2021: Israel is sprinting ahead in the global vaccination race having already inoculated around a quarter of its population. But critics such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have raised “concerns” about the unequal distribution of coronavirus vaccines in the country. Boasting one of the earliest and most successful vaccination campaigns in […]
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Sun 24 January 2021: Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday the country was still a long way from being able to relax a national lockdown despite evidence that the restrictions were bringing down the rate of COVID-19 infections. “There is early evidence that the lockdown is starting to bring cases down. But we’re […]
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Sun 24 January 2021: The study, published in Science Immunology, analysed antibody and T cell responses in 136 London healthcare workers who had mild or asymptomatic Covid-19 infection dating back to March 2020. The team, including researchers from Queen Mary, Imperial College London and University College London, found that 89 per cent of healthcare workers analysed carried […]
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