World leaders pose for a photo during the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris on June 20, 2024 Fri 21 June 2024: French President Emmanuel Macron has joined several African leaders to kick off a planned $1.1bn project to accelerate vaccine production in Africa, after the COVID-19 pandemic […]
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Mon 17 June 2024: Reuters news agency investigation reveals how US military launched a clandestine programme during the pandemic to discredit China’s medical efforts. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially […]
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Sun 26 May 2024: The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday, May 24, that global life expectancy has reached its lowest point in over a decade, now averaging 71.4 years. This indicates that nearly ten years of progress in extending life expectancy have been lost. The WHO’s World Health Statistics report highlighted a decline […]
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Wed 01 May 2024: The National Department of Health says it has noted with concern old and fake news about the COVID-19 Omicron XBB variant circulating on social media. These fake posts further advise people to wear face masks because of an allegedly “deadly and not easy-to-detect variant”. “This is a misleading message which first […]
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Tue 30 April 2024: AstraZeneca has acknowledged that the COVID-19 vaccination may have a rare side effect for the first time since it was introduced. The pharmaceutical company acknowledged that its COVID-19 vaccine “can, in very rare cases, cause TTS”, In legal documents submitted to the United Kingdom High Court. TTS stands for Thrombosis with […]
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Tue 20 February 2024: The Department of Health has hit back at a misleading voice note making the rounds on social media platforms claiming that people who vaccinated against COVID-19 are dying due to the vaccine. The voice note, which is also circulating on WhatsApp, promotes the use of an unregistered over-the-counter product called Nature’s […]
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A researcher takes samples from a bat’s mouth inside Sai Yok National Park in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok. [FILE: Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo] Sun 14 January 2024: A recently identified bat virus that can infect humans has raised concerned about zoonotic transmission in Thailand. The controversial research group behind this discovery, EcoHealth Alliance, previously […]
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Thu 11 January 2024: On Wednesday, January 10, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the most common variant of the coronavirus, COVID-19, was the cause of an increase in cases last month during Christmas get-togethers worldwide. The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that December had about 10,000 recorded deaths. […]
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Wed 10 January 2024: North Korea carried out public executions of people who had violated COVID-19 regulations in previous years, a South Korean state-run think tank claimed in its latest report. A white paper on human rights issued by the Korea Institute for National Unification, citing a North Korean defector who arrived in Seoul last […]
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Wed 10 January 2024: India saw 605 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours as of Wednesday (January 10) morning, government data said. There were 3,643 active cases as of 8 am on Wednesday, representing a net decrease of 276 cases since Tuesday. Four people – two in Karnataka and Kerala each – died to contracting the […]
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