Sat 19 December 2020: The research team gauged how living in an area of socioeconomic poverty – measured by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation – was linked to severe Covid-19 using anonymous health records LONDON – Researchers have now claimed that people in poorest areas are more likely to be affected by severe Covid-19 — […]
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Sat 19 December 2020: Johannesburg: South Africa has identified a new variant of the coronavirus that is driving a second wave of infections, the health minister said on Friday, days after Britain said it had also found a new variant of the virus boosting cases. “We have convened this public briefing today to announce that […]
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Sat 19 December 2020: India surged past 10 million coronavirus cases on Saturday — the second highest in the world although new infection rates appear to have fallen sharply in recent weeks. The number of cases increased by just over 25,000 in 24 hours, according to the health ministry, while the total number of deaths […]
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Fri 18 December 2020: Large areas of England will be added to the ‘very high alert’ Covid-19 category this weekend, placing residents under the most stringent set of restrictions to tackle a rising number of infections. Britain, like other countries, is struggling to tame a second wave of novel coronavirus cases and deaths, and the […]
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Fri 18 December 2020: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged world’s rich nations to make stronger contributions to make coronavirus vaccine available to everyone on the planet. “It is not with vaccine nationalism that we are going to defeat the COVID, it is with international cooperation,” he said at a news conference in […]
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Thu 17 December 2020: Saudi health minister gets dose of vaccine Saudi Arabia on Thursday began a coronavirus vaccination campaign for citizens who wish to be vaccinated, local media reported. Saudi Health Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah received a vaccine dose , according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). “This campaign is the largest vaccination operation […]
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Thu 17 December 2020: French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, the French Presidency said on Thursday. Macron took a test “as soon as the first symptoms appeared” and will isolate himself for seven days, according to the statement. “He will continue to work and take care of his activites at a distance,” […]
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Thu 17 December 2020: Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin, who shed a bright light over billions of people across the world by developing Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, are named the People of the Year by British daily the Financial Times. “By developing a Covid vaccine in less than a year, the couple achieved a remarkable scientific and […]
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Thu 17 December 2020: New Zealand will offer free Covid-19 vaccines to its entire population from the middle of 2021. The Government said on Thursday it had secured enough vaccines for the whole of New Zealand, and was first planning to vaccinate border workers from the second quarter of 2021, and the rest of the […]
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Wed 16 December 2020: Muslim groups in South Africa have written to their government asking for an intervention to stop Sri Lanka from forcibly cremating Muslims dying of the novel coronavirus. A letter seen by Anadolu Agency addressed to Naledi Pandor, minister of international relations and cooperation, requests her to help intervene in the matter. […]
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