Police in London said on Saturday that they had made over 60 arrests and expected that figure to rise, as they tried to break up anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests. The police said that the arrests had been made for different offences including breaching coronavirus restrictions. England’s current lockdown ends on Dec. 2. The group Save […]
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Sat 28 November 2020: More than 400,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus have been registered in Europe, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources around 0800 GMT Saturday. The second-worst hit global region after Latin America and the Caribbean, 400,649 people have died of Covid-19 in Europe among 17,606,370 confirmed cases. Of these, […]
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Sat 28 November 2020: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he expects more than half of Canadians to receive a COVID-19 vaccine by next September after he came under criticism for saying Canadians won’t be among the first to get doses. Prime Minister Trudeau said there are “very good chances” that most Canadians will be […]
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Fri 27 November 2020: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday evening that he will not take a coronavirus vaccine, the latest in a series of statements he has made expressing skepticism toward coronavirus vaccination programs. In statements broadcast live over multiple social media platforms, the right-wing leader added that Congress was unlikely to require […]
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Fri 27 November 2020: The aviation industry, plagued by the novel coronavirus pandemic, is ready to help in delivering a potential COVID-19 vaccine across the globe. Experts calculate that the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as its global distribution and logistics, will be a challenging process, with 15,000 flights and 15 million cooler […]
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Thu 26 November 2020: The number of deaths worldwide from COVID-19 surpassed the 60 million mark Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The US-based university has recorded 60,174,732 cases and 1,417,153 deaths since the virus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December. The US continues to be hardest hit by the disease, with […]
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Thu 26 November 2020: Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak has outlined the UK government’s spending plans for the next year, against the backdrop of huge damage to the public finances wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. Appearing before MPs, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that while the health emergency was not yet over, the economic […]
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Wed 25 November 2020: Brazil registered 31,100 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours and 630 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The South American nation has now registered 6,118,708 cases since the pandemic began and the official death toll has risen to 170,115, according to ministry […]
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Wed 25 November 2020: Developers of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine said on Tuesday, that Sputnik V is 95 percent effective according to a second interim analysis of clinical trial data, The calculations were based on preliminary data obtained 42 days after the first dose, Russia’s health ministry, the state-run Gamaleya research centre and the Russian […]
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Tue 24 November 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to cause nearly $160 billion losses in the aviation sector during 2020 and 2021, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said. The association’s expectation is $118.5 billion losses this year and $38.7 billion in 2021, according to a press release issued Tuesday. “Deep industry losses will […]
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