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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Thu 10 February 2022: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tested negative for COVID-19 after being infected with the virus last week, semi-official Anadolu Agency reported on Thursday. “President Erdogan’s PCR tests that we have done over the past two days have come back negative,” his doctor Serkan Topaloglu was quoted as saying by the agency. […]
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Thu 10 February 2022: As Canadians’ frustration with the occupation of their national capital grows, protests echoed throughout the world on Wednesday, this time in France, where hundreds of trucks and cars drove from southern France to Paris to express their displeasure with the country’s vaccination policies. The Ottawa protests, which were planned by loosely […]
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Thu 10 February 2022: Following a recent boost in vaccine supplies, top European Union authorities have stated that low COVID-19 vaccine absorption in African countries has become the key challenge in the worldwide vaccination deployment. African countries started their vaccination campaigns far later than wealthy countries, which hurried to get the first limited doses, which […]
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Wed 09 February 2022: Despite minor advances, the Afghan health situation remains dire amid a deepening humanitarian crisis, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, the health condition in Afghanistan has been unstable. “Yesterday, I met with Qalandar Ebad, the Taliban Health […]
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Wed 09 February 2022: Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated on Wednesday that all remaining Covid restrictions in England will be lifted in less than two weeks. The current rules, which included the requirement to self-isolate after a positive test, were set to expire on March 24. The decision, according to the prime minister, is part […]
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Wed 09 February 2022: According to Bloomberg, the World Health Organization is asking wealthy countries to donate $16 billion to a program targeted at providing low- and middle-income countries with access to COVID-19 vaccinations, treatments, and testing. Under the WHO proposal, higher-income nations would donate in proportion to their contribution to world trade, while middle-income […]
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Wed 09 February 2022: Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it expects 2022 sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and antiviral pill to top $54bn, but that fell short of lofty Wall Street estimates and its shares were off about 3 percent. Still, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said final sales for its oral COVID-19 antiviral, Paxlovid, could […]
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Wed 09 February 2022: The United Nations (UN) said Monday that due to COVID-19, global spending on social protection rose by almost 270 percent to 2.9 trillion U.S. dollars from December 2020 to May 2021. “The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated inequalities, and multiple forms of deprivation,” Liu Zhenmin, under-secretary-general for Economic and Social Affairs, told […]
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