Fri 18 March 2022: All remaining Covid-19 pandemic related international travel restrictions, including filling in Passenger Locator Forms before arrival and compulsory pre-departure tests for unvaccinated travellers, have been scrapped from Friday, the UK government has announced. The change, which had been announced by the Department for Transport (DfT) earlier, came into effect at 4 […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: On Thursday, South Korea recorded a new high of over 600,000 coronavirus cases, with officials claiming the country was nearing the apex of an Omicron-fueled infection wave. South Korea leads the world in newly reported cases in the last seven days, with 2,417,174 infections, followed by Vietnam with 1,776,045 infections, according […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: The Turkish German couple who developed the first coronavirus vaccine are the latest recipients of Germany’s most prestigious medical prize, DPA reports. According to the report, the two scientists, Özlem Türeci, and her husband, Ugur Sahin, were awarded the prize named Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter. The prize comes with 120,000 Euros ($132,000) […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: After more than two years of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand has opted to speed up the opening of its international borders. The government imposed among of the strictest isolation policies in the world, but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern believes it is time to return to normalcy, claiming […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: China has placed about 17 million residents under lockdown, as virus cases doubled nationwide to nearly 3,400 and anxiety mounted over the resilience of its ‘zero-Covid’ approach in the face of the worst outbreak in two years. The southern tech hub of Shenzhen – home to about 13 million people – […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: The origin of the city’s Delta variant epidemic of Covid—imported hamsters appears to have been established by a Hong Kong study. According to the research, Syrian hamsters were the cause of a local epidemic of the Delta variant two months ago, which was undertaken jointly by the University of Hong Kong’s […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: Public health experts at the World Health Organization have begun discussing how and when to call an end to the global Covid-19 crisis, exploring what would be an important milestone more than two years after the emergence of the virus. The WHO said it isn’t currently considering such a declaration. While […]
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Fri 11 March 2022: Africa’s top public health agency has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pfizer to bring supplies of the pharmaceutical firm’s Paxlovid antiviral COVID-19 pills to the continent. “The memorandum of understanding is with the legal office at the AU [African Union]”, John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control […]
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Tue 08 March 2022: According to the presidency, the US biotechnology company Moderna Inc plans to invest more than $500 million in a planned vaccine and drug manufacturing facility in Kenya. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was in Nairobi on Monday to witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding between his country and Moderna. The […]
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Fri 04 March 2022: Rules requiring people to show a Covid-19 vaccine passport to access venues will be lifted in France on March 14 – about a month before the presidential election – said French Prime Minister Jean Castex, as the country gradually eases Covid health protocols amid signs the virus is receeding in France. […]
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