Thu 28 October 2021: New Zealand announced on Thursday that it would relax its coronavirus border restrictions, which have been in place since March 2020, and move to a system of home isolation for fully vaccinated international visitors beginning early next year. Last year, New Zealand was one of the first countries to close its […]
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Wed 27 October 2021: On Tuesday, leaders in the worldwide tourism industry urged for more open access to COVID-19 vaccines to help the business recover in the aftermath of the pandemic. Speaking at the Future of Tourism World Summit, which is being held in Barcelona on Oct. 26-27, Rebeca Grynspan, the secretary general of the […]
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Wed 27 October 2021: Germany’s BioNTech, which developed a coronavirus jab with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, said Tuesday it aims to begin building a vaccine plant in Africa next year. The project is expected to address the continent’s shortage of Covid-19 vaccines and boost its flagging vaccination drive, with only 5.2 percent of its population […]
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Tue 26 October 2021: Despite the fact that surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses in US states are about to expire, the White House Vaccine Task Force recently rejected a request to send unused doses to other countries, according to the Washington Post. The demand for COVID-19 vaccines has decreased in Southern California, despite the fact that […]
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Tue 26 October 2021: Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom estimates that air traffic will not fully resume until at least 2026. Despite the fact that the travel industry picked up momentum in the third quarter as global pandemic restrictions lifted, the corporation is still losing money, according to a statement released Tuesday. Although it […]
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Tue 26 October 2021: South Africa distributed 11 721 COVID-19 jabs to children between the ages of 12 and 17 on Monday. According to the Department of Health, 168 445 shots were given to adults across the country, pushing the total number of doses to 180 166 in the past 24 hours. This means the […]
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Tue 26 October 2021: Morocco’s health minister said on Monday that the introduction of a vaccine pass to get entry to public locations last week had resulted in a fivefold rise in persons seeking vaccinations, despite opposition to the policy in parliament. On Thursday, the government launched the pass, which grants entry to all government […]
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Tue 26 October 2021: Thousands of New York City municipal employees, including firefighters and police officials, blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, as part of a demonstration against the Covid vaccination mandate in New York City. The legislation, which affects about 50,000 workers, follows similar restrictions for health-care and education employees, and it goes into […]
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Mon 25 October 2021: The European Union’s medicines authority has started a real-time review of Merck & Co Inc’s experimental COVID-19 antiviral drug for adults, the US firm said on Monday. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) would analyze data as soon as it became available, rather than waiting for a formal application when all essential […]
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Mon 25 October 2021: British finance minister Rishi Sunak’s budget this week will include an extra 5.9 billion pounds ($8.1 billion) of spending for the health service over the next few years to drive down waiting lists, the finance ministry said on Sunday. The sum comes on top of an 8 billion pound package announced […]
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