Sat 03 October 2020: “The COVID-19 pandemic is causing untold fear and suffering for older people across the world,”UN Secretary-General António Guterres said back in May. “Beyond its immediate health impact, the pandemic is putting older people at greater risk of poverty, discrimination and isolation. It is likely to have a particularly devastating impact on older […]
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Sat 03 October 2020: US President Donald Trump remains “fatigued” after contracting coronavirus and has been injected with an experimental antibody cocktail for COVID-19, according to a memo by the president’s physician issued on Friday. “Following PCR-confirmation of the President’s diagnosis, as a precautionary measure he received a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron’s polyclonal […]
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Fri 02 October 2020: Russian President Vladimir Putin wished Donald Trump a speedy recovery in a telegram today, saying he was sure the US leader’s qualities would help him fight off the coronavirus. “I am certain that your inherent vitality, good spirits and optimism will help you cope with this dangerous virus,” Putin wrote to […]
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Fri 02 October 2020: Young people and women are among the groups most affected by crisis, says ILO An estimated 34 million jobs have been lost across Latin America and the Caribbean due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report this week from the International Labor Organization (ILO). The report warned that the crisis […]
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Fri 02 October 2020: US president and first lady are currently under quarantine after Trump’s aide Hope Hicks also tested positive. Trump said in a tweet that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for Covid-19. The president said they will begin “quarantine and recovery process immediately.” The president was tested after Hope Hicks, one of […]
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Thu 01 October 2020: New measures against corona virus require incoming passengers to hold negative test certificates Uganda resumed international commercial flights on Thursday roughly six months after closing due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, local media reported. Entebbe International Airport near the capital Kampala resumed commercial operations with six flights on the first day, […]
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Thu 01 October 2020: Pharmaceutical company collaborates with Indian giant to procure anti-viral drug Indonesian pharmaceutical company PT Kalbe Farma is collaborating with India’s PT Amarox Pharma Global to launch antiviral drug Covifor (Remdesivir) for COVID-19 treatment in the Southeast Asian country. Amarox Pharma Global is a subsidiary of Hetero, one of India’s leading generic […]
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Wed 30 September 2020: One million people are confirmed to have lost their lives to COVID-19, but “the real number is certainly higher”, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a high-level United Nations event on Wednesday. Tedros, addressing the New York event from Geneva, said that 167 countries have now joined the WHO-led […]
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Wed 30 September 2020: Risk in urban slums is twice than that in non-slum areas and four times than the risk in a rural setting Only 6.6% of Indian population exposed to COVID-19 so far! The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) released the findings of the second nation-wide sero-survey on Tuesday. The survey found […]
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Tue 29 September 2020: Experts remain concerned that the official figures for deaths and cases globally significantly under-represent the real tally The global death toll from COVID-19 rose past 1 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a bleak milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and changed […]
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