Tue 14 June 2022: The World Bank has approved a €454.4 million (R7.6 billion) loan to South Africa for the country’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Project. Approved by the Bank’s Group Board of Executive Directors on Monday, the loan comes following a request by the Government of South Africa for assistance in financing vaccine procurement contracts. […]
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Sun 12 June 2022: Sonia Gandhi, president of India’s main opposition Congress party, has been admitted to hospital with “Covid-related issues,” a party spokesman said Sunday. Gandhi was admitted to the Ganga Ram Hospital in the capital New Delhi, Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala said in a tweet. “She is stable and will be kept […]
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Sat 10 June 2022: The United States on Friday announced that Covid-19 tests would no longer be demanded for international travelers arriving by air, a major step in the country’s gradual lifting of pandemic restrictions. White House Assistant Press Secretary Kevin Munoz confirmed the news on Twitter, with US media saying the testing requirement would […]
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Thu 02 June 2022: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday that COVID-19 deaths on the African continent are likely to drop by nearly 94 percent in 2022 compared to last year, citing its own modeling. Although African countries struggled early in the pandemic to secure COVID vaccines as rich countries hoarded available doses, […]
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Thu 02 June 2022: Pulse oximeter measurements are less accurate among Black, Hispanic and Asian COVID-19 patients compared to white patients. These inaccuracies may have led to minority patients receiving delayed or no treatment, according to a study published May 31 in JAMA Internal Medicine. “Black and Hispanic patients were more likely to experience unrecognized and […]
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Mon 30 May 2022: South Africa has administered a total of 3 255 COVID-19 vaccines in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of vaccines to 36 020 076 to date. According to data by the National Department of Health (NDoH), the highest number of vaccines were from the North West province with 1 106, followed by Gauteng […]
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Mon 30 May 2022: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and a billionaire businessman, believes there is a 50% chance that a new pandemic may emerge in the next 20 years, with natural origins. “The human population is growing and we are invading more and more ecosystems. That is why I estimate that there is a […]
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Sat 28 May 2022: Covid-19 is associated with impaired function of the right side of the heart, a new study of intensive care patients has found. The research, led by experts from NHS Golden Jubilee, aimed to help improve future care and outcomes for those most at risk from Covid-19, by gaining a better understanding of the […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the number of COVID-19 cases throughout the Americas increased by 27.2 percent last week compared to the previous week, owing mostly to an increase in infections in the United States. More than half of a total 918,000 infections came from North America as […]
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Wed 18 May 2022: Paxlovid, a COVID-19 oral antiviral treatment developed by Pfizer Inc, has seen a 315 percent increase in use in the last four weeks, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. According to a senior health official, about 115,000 courses of the drugs were distributed in the first week […]
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