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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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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