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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Fri 21 January 2022: London tourism may not recover to pre-coronavirus levels until the mid-2020s, according to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who urged the government to put together a package of support measures for the impacted firms. “It is estimated that it could take until at least 2025 for domestic and international overnight visitor numbers […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: After testing positive for COVID-19, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz stated he was isolated and in good condition on Friday. “I feel good because I am vaccinated. In the coming days I will manage security affairs from my home,” Gantz wrote on Twitter. Israel has shortened its mandatory isolation period for […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: On Thursday, a UN-backed organization announced that it had reached agreements with more than two dozen generic drug manufacturers to produce versions of Merck’s COVID-19 pill for distribution to 105 developing countries. According to the Medicines Patent Pool, the agreements will allow drug companies to manufacture both the raw ingredients and […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: Africa’s top public health bodies have called for donated COVID-19 vaccines to come with a shelf life of three to six months so countries could plan their rollouts and avoid a situation where doses expire. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said 2.8 million […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: Even after a surge in Omicron cases, the World Health Organisation has urged nations to lift travel bans and mandatory vaccination for entry into countries. “The failure of travel restrictions introduced after the detection and reporting of Omicron variant to limit the international spread of Omicron demonstrates the ineffectiveness of such […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: Novak Djokovic, the current world number one tennis player, is also a co-founder and main shareholder of a biotech company developing a coronavirus (COVID-19) cure, according to the CEO of the Danish company (January 19). Ivan Loncarevic, the CEO of QuantBioRes, said that the tennis player purchased an 80 percent ownership […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: According to local media on Wednesday, German police are examining 12,000 possible forged vaccination certificates across the country. An inquiry has been begun, according to the German News Agency, after fraud related to the 3G requirement (vaccination, testing, and recovery) rose in numerous places, with 12,000 vaccination certificates faked in several […]
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Wed 19 January 2022: The majority of Covid restrictions in the UK will be eased next week, according to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who made the statement on Wednesday (January 19). In addition, he stated that starting Monday, Covid’s isolation period would be reduced to 5 days (January 24). He did warn, however, that […]
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SA President Cyril Ramaphosa at the official launch of the Nant-SA Vaccine Manufacturing Campus, Brackengate Business Park, Brackenfel. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wed 19 January 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa says the newly launched vaccine manufacturing facility campus at Brackengate in Cape Town will usher in a new era in healthcare, medicines and vaccines […]
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