Wed 23 December 2020: Around 500 relatives of people who died of COVID-19 in Italy said on Wednesday they were initiating legal action against regional and national authorities, seeking 100 million euros ($122 million) in damages. The roughly 500 family members say the government’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis led directly to the deaths of their loved […]
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Wed 23 December 2020: Washington: Simply wearing a face mask may not protect you from catching the novel coronavirus, that causes COVID-19, if you are not maintaining physical distancing, according to a study. The research, published in the journal Physics of Fluids, tested how five different types of mask materials affected the spread of droplets that […]
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Tue 22 December 2020: German pharmaceutical company BioNTech says it’s still unclear whether the current vaccine will be able to provide protection against the new UK variant of COVID-19, but “scientifically, it is highly likely that the immune response by this vaccine also can deal with the new virus variants.” Sahin said the BioNTech’s COVID-19 […]
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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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