Mon 11 January 2021: Chinese authorities have said a World Health Organization (WHO) team of international experts tasked with investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic will arrive in China on Thursday. Lack of authorisation from Beijing had delayed the arrival of the 10-strong team on a long-awaited mission to investigate early infections, in what […]
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COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: January 10, 2021, 19:04 GMT Coronavirus Cases: 90,429,982 Deaths: 1,939,630 Recovered: 64,651,435 Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ US lawmakers may have been exposed to coronavirus during siege on Capitol House lawmakers may have been exposed to someone testing positive for Covid-19 while they sheltered at an undisclosed location during the Capitol siege by […]
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COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: January 09, 2021, 09:18 GMT Coronavirus Cases: 90,142,202 Deaths: 1,936,026 Recovered: 64,541,017 Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ French President Macron’s wife tested positive for COVID-19 in December The wife of French President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for COVID-19 towards the end of December but resumed normal activities after a second test proved negative, […]
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Sat 09 January 2021: The Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip have been vaccinated against Covid, joining more than a million people in the UK who have been given the jab. In an unusual move, Buckingham Palace – which rarely comments on the private health matters of the couple – announced that the […]
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Sat 09 January 2021: More than three-quarters of people hospitalised with Covid-19 still suffered from at least one symptom after six months, according to a study that scientists said shows the need for further investigation into lingering virus effects. The research, which was published in the Lancet medical journal and involved hundreds of patients in […]
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Sat 09 January 2021: COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: January 09, 2021, 10:23 GMT Coronavirus Cases: 89,451,806 Deaths: 1,924,037 Recovered: 64,103,954 Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Brazil’s Bolsonaro asks India’s Modi to speed vaccine shipment Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has sent a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking to expedite a shipment of two million doses […]
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Fri 08 January 2021: COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: January 08, 2021, 17:32 GMT Coronavirus Cases: 88,893,089 Deaths: 1,913,630 Recovered: 63,807,739 Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Indonesian clerics declare Sinovac’s vaccine halal A Covid-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac Biotech has been deemed halal, or permissible under Islam, Indonesia’s Ulema Council said, days before the country is scheduled to […]
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Fri 08 January 2021: The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has formally declared an effective emergency in the UK capital, as it grapples with a soaring number of coronavirus cases and hospitals struggle to cope with the influx of patients. Facing continuing surge of new Covid-19 cases, London mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday declared a ‘major incident’ […]
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Fri 08 January 2021: An arthritis drug has been found to reduce the risk of death for people with the most severe cases of COVID-19 by a quarter, if they are given the treatment within 24 hours of entering intensive care, a British study of treatments for the disease has found. The REMAP-CAP clinical trial, […]
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Fri 08 January 2021: COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: January 08, 2021, 08:28 GMT Coronavirus Cases: 88,560,192 Deaths: 1,907,702 Recovered: 63,656,375 Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Pfizer Says Its Vaccine Appears Effective Against New Coronavirus Variant Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to work against a key mutation in the highly transmissible new variants of the coronavirus […]
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