Tue 22 December 2020: Turkey isolated people arriving from the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and South Africa even if they tested negative for COVID-19, the country’s health minister said on Tuesday. A total of “335 arrivals who entered our country from the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, South Africa the previous night went through medical examinations. […]
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Tue 22 December 2020: The U.K. last week warned of a new coronavirus variant that is thought to be up to 70% more transmissible than the original strain of the disease. According to the World Health Organization, the new variant has so far been identified in Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia. UK has reported a […]
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Mon 21 December 2020: “Sick Man of Europe”, the Daily Mirror newspaper said on its front page beside a picture of Johnson while the Sun newspaper said: “French show no merci”. The closure of the English Channel and ports for onward travel to France will affect the export of goods such as fish and shellfish […]
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Mon 21 December 2020: South African genomic scientists have identified a variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus, currently termed 501.V2 variant. “This genomics team, led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), has sequenced hundreds of samples from across the country since the beginning of the pandemic in March. “They noticed that a particular […]
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Mon 21 December 2020: Saudi Arabia suspended late on Sunday all international commercial flights for a renewable week except for the foreign flights already in the kingdom which will be allowed to leave, state news agency SPA reported quoting an interior ministry source. Suspend all international flights for travelers – except in exceptional cases – […]
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Mon 21 December 2020: Congress reached a deal Sunday on a $900 billion coronavirus relief package, a long-delayed effort to boost an American health-care system and economy buckling under the weight of the pandemic. In addition to direct payments, the legislation is also expected to include efforts to further unemployment assistance and assist small businesses […]
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Sun 20 December 2020: Italy plans to suspend flights to and from Britain over fears of a new strain of the coronavirus detected there, Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio said in a Facebook post. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and scientists announced on Saturday that a new strain of the virus identified in the country […]
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Sun 20 December 2020: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has refused to take any vaccine, has said that he did not think the world’s rush for a vaccine was justified because the pandemic is in his view coming to an end. New cases have not indicated the pandemic is ending. In recent days, several countries […]
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Sat 19 December 2020: A new strain of COVID-19 identified in the United Kingdom can spread more quickly and urgent work is under way to confirm that it does not cause a higher mortality rate, England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said on Saturday. “As announced on Monday, the UK has identified a new variant […]
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Sat 19 December 2020: More and more evidence is coming out that people with COVID-19 are suffering from cognitive effects, such as brain fog and fatigue. And researchers are discovering why. The SARS-CoV-2 virus, like many viruses before it, is bad news for the brain. In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers found that the […]
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