Tue 15 February 2022: Canada’s PM says move aims to support, strengthen law enforcement amid ongoing anti-government blockades and rallies. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked an emergency measure for the first time in the country’s history to give his government more power to respond to ongoing anti-government trucker protests. In a news conference on […]
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Mon 14 February 2022: Hong Kong’s health facilities have been overloaded by an “onslaught” of Covid-19 infections, its leader said, as a rise in Omicron cases threatens to bring down the city’s “zero-Covid” policy. Authorities have adhered to mainland China’s policy of stamping out the smallest outbreak with mass quarantine, widespread tracking, and prolonged social […]
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Mon 14 February 2022: On Sunday, Canadian police arrested many demonstrators as they cleared protesters and vehicles that had blocked a crucial commerce route on the US-Canada border. However, by the time this report was published on Sunday, the bridge had not been reopened to traffic. Since Friday, police and protesters have been locked in […]
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Sun 13 February 2022: On Saturday, shortly after a “Freedom Convoy” protesting COVID-19 restrictions arrived in Paris, French police shot tear gas at demonstrators on the Champs Elysees avenue. Protesters in cars managed to slip through police checks in central Paris, causing traffic to bottleneck around the Arc de Triomphe monument. The vehicles brandished French […]
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Sat 12 February 2022: On Friday, New York City was set to fire about 3,000 municipal employees for missing a deadline to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The probable dismissals come amid mounting opposition to coronavirus restrictions in North America, as governments unilaterally abolish mask laws. Under directives issued by former mayor Bill de Blasio last […]
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Sat 12 February 2022: Despite a police ban, protesters unhappy with pandemic restrictions traveled toward Paris in separate convoys of camper vans, vehicles, and trucks on Friday in an attempt to blockade the French city. Truckers who have blockaded Canada’s capital and barred border crossings fueled the protests, which were organized online. However, the French […]
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Sat 12 February 2022: Pfizer’s COVID-19 medication Paxlovid has received “conditional” approval in China to treat adults with mild to moderate sickness and a high risk of developing severe disease. The medicine has been approved in around 40 nations so far, with the European Union allowing member states to use it as an emergency measure […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: The French Health Ministry said on Friday that wearing masks indoors in venues that require a vaccine permit would be discontinued on February 28. Masks will still be required on public transportation and in places that do not require a vaccine pass. “Wearing a mask indoors will remain on transport and […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa Regional director, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, says the continent is on course to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. She was speaking as the continent is about to observe two years since the first case of COVID-19 was identified on 14 February. Since then, at least 11 million cases […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: The World Health Organization’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, said on Friday that the world was not yet at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as there would be more coronavirus variants. “We have seen the virus evolve, mutate … so we know there will be more variants, more variants of concern, […]
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