Fri 15 January 2021: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday got the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Arriving at Ankara City Hospital, Erdogan received the first dose of China’s CoronaVac vaccine. “I got vaccinated as well,” Erdogan said on the Telegram social network. “I believe that especially if all political leaders, MPs encourage […]
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Thu 14 January 2021: Both Pope Francis and ex-Pope Benedict have received the first dose of a vaccine against coronavirus, the Vatican said on Thursday. The 84-year-old pope and the 93-year-old former pope got their jabs as part of a Vatican vaccination program that began on Wednesday. Both men are vulnerable to contracting the […]
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Thu 14 January 2021: Over 100,000 health care staff in Turkey received the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the country’s health minister said on Thursday. “As of now, the number of health professionals getting the first doses crossed 100,000,” Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter at around 1.40 p.m. local time (1040 GMT), sharing a link […]
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Thu 14 January 2021: Remdesivir is the first drug against Covid-19 to be conditionally approved in Europe and the United States. The drug is designed to suppress the rapid replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in human cells by blocking the viral copying machine, called RNA polymerase. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical […]
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Thu 14 January 2021: Oil prices were slightly down on Thursday over lingering demand concerns, as hopes for an economic recovery boosted by the vast vaccine campaigns were put on hold after confusing results about the efficacy of the vaccines. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $56.02 per barrel at 06 GMT for a […]
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Thu 14 January 2021: The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that about 28 million vaccine doses have been administered so far in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic – largely in the wealthiest countries. WHO Emergencies Director Michael Ryan said around 46 countries had started their coronavirus vaccination campaigns – of which 38 were […]
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Wed 13 January 2021: UK will start administering Covid-19 vaccine in new vaccine centers on a 24/7 basis as soon as possible, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Wednesday. Taking questions from lawmakers at the House of Commons, Johnson said details of the round-the-clock rollout will be given by his health secretary. Johnson revealed earlier in […]
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Wed 13 January 2021: A highly infectious mutation of the novel coronavirus first recorded in the United Kingdom last month has spread to dozens of countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since being reported to the WHO on December 14, the UK-identified variant VOC 202012/01 has been found in 50 countries, territories and […]
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Wed 13 January 2021: Police Minister Bheki Cele has called on South Africans to heed government’s call to adhere to the adjusted COVID-19 lockdown regulations. This comes as 20 000 people have been arrested and/or fined for contravention of the Disaster Management Act since the start of the Adjusted Level 3 Lockdown on 29 December […]
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Wed 13 January 2021: India has kicked off one of the world’s biggest inoculation programs that will be a crucial test of how quickly developing countries, with limited health and transportation infrastructure, can protect their populations against Covid-19. Refrigerated trucks and private planes, accompanied by police officers, fanned out from Pune on Tuesday to around […]
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