Thu 13 January 2022: New infections have reached unprecedented levels across the Americas, due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, according to the Pan American Health Organization, with cases doubling in the last week. PAHO Director Carissa Etienne said during a regular news briefing on Wednesday that cases in the Americas increased […]
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Wed 29 December 2021: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 9,519,699 as of Tuesday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The death toll across the continent stands at 227,708 and total recoveries stand at some 8,556,200, it said. South Africa has recorded the most COVID-19 […]
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Wed 29 December 2021: The rapid circulation of the Delta and Omicron variants of COVID-19 worldwide is creating a “tsunami of cases”, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says. Addressing reporters at a news briefing, Tedros also repeated his call for countries to share vaccines more equitably and warned that the emphasis on delivering booster jabs […]
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Wed 29 December 2021: Greece banned music in bars and restaurants on Wednesday in an effort to limit New Year’s Eve parties as part of new measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus. “Omicron is now the dominant strain and the public health system is under pressure,” Health Minister Thanos Plevris said in a […]
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Wed 29 December 2021: The Department of Health says the implementation of the revised COVID-19 contract tracing, quarantine and isolation protocols released last week have been suspended. In a statement, the department said it has been “inundated with media, stakeholders and public enquiries and comments” since the release of the new protocols – leading to […]
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Wed 29 December 2021: Rapid Covid home tests are more likely to give a false negative with the heavily-mutated Omicron variant compared to earlier strains, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday. The news comes as the country is facing a massive surge in cases that experts say is being under-captured as a result of a testing […]
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Wed 29 December 2021: The risk posed by the Omicron variant is still “very high”, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, after COVID-19 case numbers shot up by 11 percent globally last week. Omicron is behind the rapid virus spikes in many countries, including those where it has already overtaken the previously-dominant Delta […]
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Tue 28 December 2021: German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach told the German dpa news agency on Tuesday that Germany will purchase a million packages of Pfizer’s Paxlovid antiviral medicine against COVID-19, with the first batches coming in January. “It is an extremely promising medication, as timely taking of the medicine significantly reduces the probability of […]
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Tue 28 December 2021: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will not vaccinate his 11-year-old daughter against COVID-19, he said on Monday, maintaining the firm anti-vaccine stance that has drawn criticism from public health experts and hit his poll numbers. The right-wing leader added that the nation’s health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, will divulge on January 5 the manner […]
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Tue 28 December 2021: China put hundreds of thousands more people under lockdown Tuesday to try and stamp out a worsening coronavirus outbreak, as infections hit new highs in multiple US states and Europe. Covid surges have wreaked havoc around the world, with many nations in Europe and North America trying to strike a balance […]
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