Wed 22 September 2021: More than 200 individuals were arrested during rallies over COVID-19 restrictions in Melbourne, Australia’s Victoria state police reported on Wednesday. For the third day in a row, some 1,000 people came to the streets in Australia’s second largest city, converging on a local war memorial, in defiance of lockdown measures mandating […]
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Wed 22 September 2021: Germans who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 will no longer be compensated for lost wages if they are forced to quarantine starting in November, according to Health Minister Jens Spahn. Workers who were quarantined for at least five days after having contact with an infected individual or returning from a […]
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Wed 22 September 2021: Amnesty International says six leading COVID jab manufacturers are ‘wheeling and dealing in favour of wealthy states’. Six top manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine “are fuelling an unprecedented human rights crisis through their refusal to waive intellectual property rights and share vaccine technology”, Amnesty International said in a report. In the […]
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Wed 22 September 2021: All Indian children aged 12 or older will become eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations from next month, when drug maker Cadila Healthcare launches its ZyCoV-D product, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The world’s first DNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D won emergency authorization from Indian regulators last month. From […]
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Tue 21 September 2021: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that his government was against health passports but backed drives to vaccinate against Covid-19. “We support the vaccination efforts,” said Bolsonaro, widely criticized for his handling of the pandemic in Brazil where the coronavirus has killed more than 590,000 […]
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Tue 21 September 2021: French President Emmanuel Macron’s COVID-19 health pass QR-code has been available to all internet users for almost 24 hours, the national BFMTV news portal reported on Tuesday. The data leak occurred on late Monday, which was qualified as an “ethical offense” by the Elysee Palace. A medical worker having access to […]
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Tue 21 September 2021: A downward trend in the number of COVID-19 cases in Africa continued as the daily count fell below 7,500 on Monday. A total of 7,432 new infections over the past day pushed the overall tally above 8.15 million (8,156,048), according to the latest data from the Africa CDC. The daily figure […]
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Mon 20 September 2021: According to the Biden administration, the US would lift Covid-19 travel restrictions in November, allowing fully vaccinated passengers from the UK and EU to enter the country. The decision comes after significant pressure from Brussels and London, and will put an end to a travel restriction issued by Donald Trump more […]
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Mon 20 September 2021: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday that Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, will remain in a COVID-19 lockdown for at least another two weeks, though some restrictions may be eased. Ardern said the city of two million would move down to level three on New Zealand’s four-tier coronavirus response system by […]
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Mon 20 September 2021: Researchers in northern Cambodia have been on a mission to collect samples from bats, as they try to understand the origins of the coronavirus pandemic by tracking down a very similar virus that had been discovered in the animals of the region a decade ago. Two samples from horseshoe bats were collected […]
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