Mon 13 December 2021: France has launched 400 investigations into networks selling forged COVID-19 health cards, the interior minister announced on Sunday, as virus-related hospitalizations skyrocket across the country. In recent days, French media has focused on the case of a woman infected with the virus who died in a regional hospital in Paris after […]
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Mon 13 December 2021: Pfizer announced on Monday that it will pay $6.7 billion for Arena Pharmaceuticals, an American biotech startup. “Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARNA) announced today that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Arena, a clinical stage company developing innovative potential […]
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Mon 13 December 2021: According to the World Health Organization and the World Bank, more than half a billion people worldwide were pushed into extreme poverty last year as they paid for health costs out of their own pockets during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic disrupted global health services and triggered the […]
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Sun 12 December 2021: Scientists have been trying to come up with vaccines and other tools to combat the virus since the pandemic began in December. Now, Japanese scientists have now produced masks that can detect the virus when exposed to ultraviolet light. Yasuhiro Tsukamoto and his colleagues at Kyoto Prefectural University in western Japan […]
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Mon 13 December 2021: Deputy President David Mabuza is expected to take over all responsibilities of the president as President Cyril Ramaphosa recovers from COVID-19. According to Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele, President Ramaphosa tested positive for the virus on Sunday after addressing the State Memorial Service of Former Deputy President FW de Klerk […]
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Sun 12 December 2021: Russia added 29,929 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the overall number of cases to 10,016,896, according to the official monitoring and response center. The death toll in the country climbed by 1,132 to 289,483, while the number of people who were recovered increased by 31,391 to 8,741,355. […]
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Sun 12 December 2021: Due to an increase in Omicron cases, the UK raised the Covid warning level from 3 to 4 on Sunday. It’s the second-highest rating, signifying “transmission is high and pressure on healthcare services is widespread and substantial or rising”. Previously, the government had enforced new virus regulations requiring people over the […]
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Sun 12 December 2021: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a “devastating effect” on human rights in South Africa, with soaring cases of gender-based violence (GBV) and xenophobic social media campaigns reported among others, Amnesty International said on Friday. “South Africa continues to display some of the most pervasive and extreme levels of GBV. It pervades […]
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Sun 12 December 2021: After false reports surfaced that he had not been vaccinated, BioNTech founder and CEO Ugur Sahin released a photo of himself receiving a Pfizer/BioNTech shot. CLAIM: Video shows that the CEO of BioNTech, Dr. Ugur Sahin, will not take the COVID-19 vaccine that his firm developed with Pfizer. THE FACTS: Social media posts […]
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Sun 12 December 2021: The British government may need to introduce tougher restrictions to slow the growth of the Omicron variant and prevent a new surge in COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths, British scientists said on Saturday. UK health officials say Omicron is spreading much more quickly than the Delta strain and is likely to replace […]
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