Tue 25 January 2022: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said in a statement on Tuesday that governments throughout the world should lift travel restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. “IATA urged governments to accelerate relaxation of travel restrictions as COVID-19 continues to evolve from the pandemic to endemic stage,” the statement read. Specifically, IATA […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa has released the Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU) report into COVID-19 procurement to the public this morning. The report is a culmination of an 18-month investigation by the SIU into billions of Rands worth of contracts entered into by the state for resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, is facing rising pressure after his office confirmed another Downing Street celebration, this time to celebrate his birthday in 2020. Johnson’s wife, who brought in a cake, organized the birthday celebration on the afternoon of June 19, according to ITV News. According to the broadcaster, […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: According to a UK scientist who helped shape the lockdown strategy, Britain has passed the worst phase of the pandemic, but it should be prepared for some “possible bumps in the road.” Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London is an epidemiologist. In a report by The Guardian, he said, “I […]
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Sun 23 January 2022: According to the WHO Europe director, the Omicron form has shifted the Covid-19 pandemic into a new phase and may bring it to an end in Europe. “It’s plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of pandemic endgame,” Hans Kluge told AFP in an interview, adding that Omicron could […]
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Sun 23 January 2022: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s wedding has been postponed as the country implements new restrictions to curb the spread of the Omicron coronavirus type in the population. The “red setting” of the country’s pandemic response includes more stringent measures including mask use and gathering restrictions, which will take effect on […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: The fast-spreading Omicron strain of COVID-19 may have reached its peak in Canada, according to the country’s top health authority. In a statement released on Friday, Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, said there have been “early indications that infections may have peaked at the national level, including daily […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: Two Lyon residents have been charged with selling over 1,000 bogus COVID-19 health passes. The duo is suspected of forging certificates by hacking into a French nurse’s account in Gironde last summer. According to the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office, they were arrested on Tuesday following “several months” of investigation. A private […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: Travellers from any country arriving in India, who test Covid positive, will not mandatorily be managed at an isolation facility from today, but have to quarantine themselves at home according to protocols, authorities said. In its revised ‘Guidelines for International Arrivals’ released on Thursday, the government said foreign arrivals, who test […]
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Sat 22 January 2022: The World Tourism Organization said Tuesday that tourism arrivals are unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024 at the earliest. According to the Madrid-based UN agency’s World Tourism Barometer, the highly contagious Omicron variant will “disrupt the recovery” in early 2022 after last year’s four percent growth over 2020. Tourism […]
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