Thu 10 September 2020: LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced at a coronavirus briefing on Wednesday a “moonshot plan” for “COVID-free passports” that would allow people who test negative to return to normal life. The plan involves mass testing with results returned within around 20 minutes, with a negative result allowing entry to […]
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Thu 10 September 2020: Country records nearly 90,000 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking total number to over 4.3M NEW DELHI, India – Trials of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured jointly by the British drug manufacturer AstraZeneca and Oxford University are ongoing in India, although its trial has been halted by AstraZeneca. “We can’t comment much on the […]
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Thu 10 September 2020: BOGOTA, Colombia – Coronavirus cases continued to soar across Latin America on Wednesday, with reported infections nearing 8 million and deaths surpassing 300,000, according to a tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, countries in the region are striving to remain in the race for a COVID-19 vaccine. Brazil The governor […]
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Wed 09 September 2020: Bloc concludes talks with German, US companies on purchasing potential coronavirus cure BRUSSELS– The European Union has secured 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from medical firms BioNTech and Pfizer. The European Commission announced on Wednesday that it had concluded talks on buying the potential vaccine with Germany- and US-based companies […]
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Wed 09 September 2020: The United Nations says disruptions caused to health services because of the pandemic could reverse decades of progress in reducing child mortality and put millions of lives at risk worldwide. New mortality estimates published by UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group show deaths of under-fives fell to their lowest […]
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Tue 08 September 2020: Government tightens lockdown in northern city of Bolton and urge young people to ‘exercise added degree of common sense’ LONDON – British Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced a tightening of coronavirus restrictions in a northern English city on Tuesday as leading health experts warned that a second wave “is coming.” Hancock […]
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Tue 08 September 2020: Statistics body attributes contraction to impact of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted 51.0% in the second quarter of 2020, the country’s statistics body announced on Tuesday. Statistics South Africa attributed the decline in GDP to the impact of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions which were imposed […]
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Tue 08 September 2020: Corps say they will develop, test vaccines in accordance with ‘high ethical standards and sound scientific principles’ Nine global biopharmaceutical corporations pledged Tuesday to conduct safe development, testing, global regulatory filings and approvals of potential vaccines for the novel coronavirus. Company heads said in a joint statement they are committed “to uphold […]
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Tue 08 September 2020: Private consumption down in 2nd quarter due to lockdown, state of emergency Japan’s economy has been hit hard by COVID-19 as the latest figures reveal the annual growth rate has shrunk by 28.1%. Earlier, the government data in August estimated that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrunk by 27.8%. GDP […]
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Mon 07 September 2020: Death toll surpasses 31k, more than 1M patients recover, according to Africa CDC The number of people who have contracted the novel coronavirus in Africa has reached 1.29 million, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday. At least 31,283 people have died of the virus across the […]
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