Category: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19 UPDATE: ONTARIO ‘SHUTDOWN’ COMING INTO EFFECT, NEW COVID-19 PATIENTS RANGE FROM 2-100 YEARS IN KENYA

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Sat 26 December 2020: COVID ‘shutdown’ coming into effect in Canada’s largest province Canada’s most populous province is imposing tighter COVID-19 restrictions on Saturday in an effort to curb rising infections, deaths and hospitalisations linked to the novel coronavirus. Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the “provincewide shutdown” earlier this week, saying daily COVID-19 case numbers […]

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4-YEAR-OLD UK RETURNEE TESTS POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS IN INDIA

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Fri 25 December 2020: A four-year-old girl child, who has recently returned here from the United Kingdom has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, informed Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation on Friday. Swab samples of the child’s parents have also been collected for the Covid-19 test. Earlier on Thursday, a 24-year-old male who arrived in Bhubaneswar from […]

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WHO CONFIRMS COVID VARIANT ‘SUBSTANTIALLY’ MORE INFECTIOUS

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Fri 25 December 2020:   The World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe met on Wednesday to discuss the new coronavirus variant, which has wreaked havoc on the UK and caused high alert across Europe. The WHO’s European region comprises 53 countries, including Russia and several Central Asian nations. In total,the region has registered nearly 24 million coronavirus cases and […]

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“THIS IS HOW BLACK PEOPLE GET KILLED”: UPROAR AFTER BLACK DOCTOR IN VIDEO BEFORE COVID DEATH

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Fri 25 December 2020: “I don’t trust this hospital,” Dr. Susan Moore said from her hospital bed in Indiana, an oxygen tube hooked up to her nose. “That is not how you treat patients.” Moore, an Indianapolis physician who was being treated for COVID-19 at Indiana University Hospital North, died of the virus this week. Earlier this […]

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CHINESE VACCINES TO BE SENT TO TURKEY ON SUNDAY

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Fri 25 December 2020: Chinese authorities have approved delivery to Turkey of COVID-19 vaccines set to be sent this coming Sunday, according to Turkey’s health minister. Speaking after Thursday’s meeting of the country’s Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Committee, Fahrettin Koca said the Chinese vaccine boasts an effectiveness of 91.25%. “With the evaluations of the Scientific Committee, we […]

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EU MEMBERS TO START VACCINATIONS ON DEC 27-29 AS SHIPMENTS BEGIN

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Thu 24 December 2020: After being approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the first doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine against the novel coronavirus were dispatched Thursday to EU countries. The European Commission shared a video on Twitter showing vaccines being carefully packed and shipped to 27 EU member states. “These vaccines will soon be […]

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AS COVID-19 VACCINES EMERGE, THE SEARCH FOR ANTIVIRAL DRUGS CONTINUES

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Thu 24 December 2020: Highly promising vaccines have recently emerged for COVID-19, but this doesn’t mean research into other treatments can slow down. There is still no cure for the disease, and people will likely continue to get sick even after vaccines become widely available—by not getting their COVID shot, for example, or due to […]

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HALAL DEBATE: WHAT EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE COVID-19 VACCINE

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Thu 24 December 2020: Experts say that concerns about religious permissibility, speed of development as well as conspiracy theories need to be contextualised and taken seriously. Hundreds of hospitals in the US began their mass vaccination campaign last week after the Pfizer/BioNTech shot was greenlighted by authorities. The UK also started its rollout of the same shot earlier this […]

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