Fri 13 October 2020: Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk questioned the accuracy of COVID-19 tests on Thursday after claiming that results showed he tested positive twice and then negative twice all on the same day. “Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, […]
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Fri 13 November 2020: Over 80% of vaccine doses bought by governments with only 14% of global population The vast majority of US pharma giant Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine has already been bought by the richest governments in the world, Global Justice Now warns today. Over 1 billion doses have already been sold to rich governments, […]
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Thu 12 November 2020: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been hospitalised after he contracted coronavirus earlier this week, a presidential official says. “He first went home but decided to move to Feofania (hospital). To accurately isolate and not expose anyone,” a presidential spokeswoman told the Reuters news agency. “There are better conditions for patients. Nothing […]
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Thu 12 November 2020: Smoking will no longer be allowed on crowded streets and other public areas in Turkey starting Thursday, officials have announced. In a circular to the governors of the country’s 81 provinces, the Interior Ministry declared Wednesday that a smoking ban would be introduced in “areas like avenues, streets and stops where […]
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Thu 12 November 2020: European Union is seeking a major shift in powers towards the EU’s health agencies, warning that Europe’s faltering approach to the coronavirus pandemic has caused “confusion and distrust”. The EU commissioner for health, Stella Kyriakides, said the bloc’s lack of readiness for the crisis had meant substandard care for patients and […]
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Thu 12 November 2020: UN health agency says region saw average of 150,000 daily new coronavirus cases last week, as US breaks records. COVID-19 cases are still surging in the Americas, averaging 150,000 a day in the last week, the World Health Organization’s regional office said on Wednesday. The United States continues to report record-breaking […]
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Wed 11 November 2020: Mainland China reported 17 new cases on November 10, down from 22 reported a day earlier, the country’s health authority said on Wednesday. The National Health Commission said one of the new cases was a local infection reported in Anhui, the first such infection in the eastern Chinese province since February […]
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Wed 11 November 2020: Almost two-thirds of people in Britain say they would get vaccinated for COVID-19 but young people are far more likely to refuse a jab than older people, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday. The poll, by public opinion research firm Kantar, showed 22% of respondents said they would definitely […]
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Tue 10 November 2020: On Monday, early results from the word’s first effective coronavirus vaccine showed it could prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid. The British government has asked the National Health Service to be ready to deploy any COVID vaccine from the start of December and it will then roll it out, starting […]
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Tue 10 October 2020: From humble roots as the son of a Turkish immigrant, BioNTech Chief Executive Ugur Sahin, 55, now figures among the 100 richest Germans, together with his wife and fellow board member Oezlem Tuereci, 53. US President-elect Joe Biden Monday hailed as a cause for “hope” the news that a Covid-19 vaccine […]
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