Mon 27 February 2023: Investigations into the origins of a virus that has now killed nearly 7 million people have been hampered by politics and a lack of access and transparency. COVID-19 was probably the result of a leak from a laboratory, according to a newly updated classified report from the United States Department of […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: The detection of positive Covid cases has dropped, according to Chinese health officials, who also claimed that the pandemic had “basically” ended. The authorities, speaking at a news event, assured that China’s “major conclusive triumph” over the coronavirus has set an example of counteraction and control for populous nations, as reported […]
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Fri 17 February 2023: A new study has claimed that the face masks which was worn by people round the clock to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus did ‘little to nothing’ to stop the transmission. A new scientific review titled “Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses” claimed that the face masks […]
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Sat 28 January 2023: Japan has recorded more than 10,000 deaths from COVID-19 in January, the highest monthly tally since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday, citing prefectural data. A total of 252 people died from COVID-19 in Japan over the past 24 hours, bringing this month’s […]
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Sun 22 January 2023: The possibility of a large-scale COVID-19 rebound in China over the next few months is remote as 80 percent of the country’s population has been infected, a prominent government scientist has said. Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Saturday that the mass […]
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Tue 17 January 2023: The latest Twitter Files thread exposing the inner workings of the pre-Elon Musk era dropped on Monday, disclosing how pharmaceutical companies pressured the social media giant to censor activists voicing generic COVID-19 vaccine advocacy. “In 2020, it was clear that the pandemic would require rapid innovation. Early on, there was a […]
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Sun 15 January 2023: The Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 has been reported in dozens of countries and the WHO has called it the most transmissible yet. A new Omicron variant XBB.1.5 is causing concerns among scientists as it is spreading like a wildfire across dozens of countries, with the UN health agency calling it the “most transmissible […]
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Sat 14 January 2023: In response to accusations that it was hiding data, China has revealed roughly 60,000 fatalities among COVID patients since the beginning of December. The National Health Commission reported on Saturday that the “emergency peak” of COVID-19’s most recent surge appears to have passed. The death toll from December 8 through Thursday […]
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Wed 11 January 2023: Amid the spread of Omicron subvariant in the United States, World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Tuesday urged all countries to recommend their travellers wear masks on long-haul flights. Catherine Smallwood, a senior emergency officer of WHO for Europe said that wearing masks “should be a recommendation issued to passengers arriving from anywhere where […]
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Tue 10 January 2023: Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, says for now, government will not impose any internal restrictions as a result of the emergence of a newly found sub-variant of the COVID-19 virus. The first instance of the XBB.1.5 sub-variant was detected in South Africa in December and reported earlier this month. Phaahla explained […]
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