Sun 20 February 2022: The Queen has tested positive for Covid-19, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Her Majesty is said have mild cold-like symptoms – and expects to continue with light duties at Windsor this week. Her Majesty was being closely monitored after Prince Charles caught the virus just days after pair had been in close […]
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Cook Islands, a South Pacific nation where 97% of its population is doubly vaccinated. (Photo: Cook Islands/ Instagram) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sun 20 February 2022: For more than two years, the world has been fighting the deadly coronavirus pandemic. There are, however, a few countries that have escaped the pandemic completely. The World Health Organization (WHO) has […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that the world is not prepared for a new pandemic that could follow the coronavirus and reiterated his view that the narrative that the crisis is over is false. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus remarks were made in an address to the three-day […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: Police in Ottawa are working to clear the centre of the capital three weeks after protests shut it down. Ottawa police have made nearly two dozen arrests and begun towing vehicles that have blockaded the centre of the Canadian capital for three weeks, as a large contingent of officers moved in […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: The World Health Organization has reduced the recommended quarantine period for people who have been exposed to the coronavirus under the new guidelines. People who test negative now have seven days to get out of quarantine. Previously, the period of time was 14 days. In cases where testing to shorten quarantine […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: The world has become “better prepared” to deal with future variants of the coronavirus, the CEO and co-founder of German vaccine-maker BioNTech said, as the company works on an Omicron-specific shot. “We will have to get used to the fact that we will have to live with the virus for the […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: Individuals from the United States and around the world are fueling rallies against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Ottawa and across Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday. “These illegal blockades are being heavily supported by individuals in the United States and from elsewhere around the world,” Trudeau said in the […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon, 23-26 April) reviews 21 studies from six countries on using social media for health information about COVID-19—and shows that, for some migrant and ethnic minority populations, social media platforms such as Facebook, […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: Germany will relax COVID-19 regulations now that a wave of infections caused by the Omicron coronavirus strain appears to have passed, according to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Scholz said Germany was ready to look forward to COVID-19 with more confidence after a meeting with the chiefs of the federal states earlier on […]
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Wed 16 February 2022: BioNTech, a German vaccine company that collaborated with Pfizer to produce the first globally authorized COVID-19 vaccine, announced plans to build manufacturing facilities in Africa on Wednesday, which will increase the supply of much-needed medications on the continent. The modular design, which was unveiled at a ceremony in Marburg, Germany, consists […]
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