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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Tue 08 February 2022: A convoy of trucks blocked streets near New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington on Tuesday to protest Covid restrictions and vaccinations, following the lead of Canadian protestors. Hundreds of automobiles parked in the streets surrounding the parliament building, waving placards that said “give us back our freedom” and “coercion is not consent.” […]
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Tue 08 February 2022: Chinese researchers claim to have created a novel coronavirus test that is as accurate as a PCR lab test but takes only four minutes to complete. Researchers from Shanghai’s Fudan University claim to have found a solution. The most accurate and sensitive tests for the virus that causes Covid-19 are polymerase […]
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Mon 07 February 2022: The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) announced on Monday that it has registered the MC Pharma also known as Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine. Initially developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products, the local drug watchdog said the Chinese two-dose COVID-19 jab is administered at an interval of two to […]
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Mon 07 February 2022: Australia’s borders will reopen to fully vaccinated travelers on February 21, according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, lifting arguably of the world’s toughest and longest-standing pandemic travel restrictions. “It’s almost two years since we took the decision to close the borders to Australia,” Morrison said during a media briefing on Monday. […]
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Sun 06 February 2022: Thousands of people protesting vaccine mandates have marched in cities throughout Canada, as protests over COVID-19 restrictions spread from the nation’s capital. On Saturday, police reported some 5,000 people demonstrated in Ottawa, with hundreds more in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, as well as Quebec City, Fredericton, and Winnipeg. “We’re all sick […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief met with China’s premier to discuss COVID-19, particularly the stalling inquiry into the pandemic’s origins. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Li Keqiang met on Saturday as the origin of the coronavirus strained relations between China and the West. The WHO director-general, who is in Beijing for […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and first lady Emine Erdoğan tested COVID-19 positive with mild symptoms, the president’s official personal Twitter account announced Saturday. Erdoğan was due to attend an inauguration ceremony in northern Turkey’s Zonguldak on Saturday, but instead, he attended it via videoconference earlier in the day. During his address […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: Since the Covid pandemic hit the United States, most Americans have developed a ‘germaphobes’. According to a recent survey conducted by Xlear and OnePoll, more than two-thirds of Americans have developed a fear of germs. Around 69 percent of those polled indicated they had changed their hygiene habits to avoid getting […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: Beijing reported a pickup in new COVID-19 cases among those in China for the Winter Olympics on the day the games kicked off, highlighting challenges to contain the virus as more participants arrive. Official data showed 45 new cases were identified on February 4, more than double the previous day’s tally and compared […]
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