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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Wed 16 December 2020: Nearly a quarter of the world’s population may not have access to a COVID-19 vaccine until at least 2022, according to a study published in The BMJ today, which warns that vaccines will be as challenging to deliver as they were to develop. Another study in the same journal estimates that […]
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Wed 16 December 2020: Covid-19 pandemic has infected more than 73.7 million people, claiming at least 1.6 million lives around the world. Here are updates for December 16 Brazil’s Rio cancels New Year’s beach party over pandemic Rio de Janeiro’s annual New Year’s Eve beach bash, already reduced in scope and format, has been canceled […]
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Wed 16 December 2020: Britain’s unemployment rate has struck the highest level in four years after the coronavirus pandemic wiped out a record amount of jobs, official data showed on Tuesday. The rate — or proportion of the workforce that is unemployed — hit 4.9 percent in the three months to the end of October, the Office for […]
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Tue 15 December 2020: A Delhi court Tuesday acquitted 36 foreigners, who were charge sheeted for attending Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi by allegedly being negligent and disobeying the government guidelines issued in wake of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Arun Kumar Garg acquitted the foreigners from 14 countries of all charges. […]
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Tue 15 December 2020: South Africa is set to receive initial vaccines from the COVAX facility to cover 10% of its population in the early part of 2021. President Cyril Ramaphosa made this announcement during his address to the nation on Monday, on developments in relation to the country’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic. The […]
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Tue 15 December 2020: Outrage is mounting in Sri Lanka after at least 15 Muslim coronavirus victims, including a baby, were cremated against family wishes and in contravention of Islamic funeral rites. Health authorities in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka insist all victims must be cremated – even if they are Muslims, who traditionally bury their dead […]
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Tue 15 December 2020: The global pandemic has brought an unfathomable count of deaths to the United States – more than 300,000 Americans have perished. In recent weeks, the number of deaths on a single day have been comparable to the most tragic days in national memory. Despite the promise of an FDA approved vaccine, […]
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