Thu 02 September 2021: The World Health Organization on Wednesday launched a global data hub in Berlin to analyze information on emerging pandemic threats, filling the gaps exposed by COVID-19. The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence was inaugurated in the German capital by Chancellor Angela Merkel and WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who […]
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Wed 01 September 2021: According to state-run media, New Zealand recorded 75 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, as infections have risen again since the country was hit by the Delta variant of the virus last month. According to Radio New Zealand, the total number of cases in the current community outbreak has risen to 687 […]
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Tue 31 August 2021: The European Union fully vaccinated 70% of its adult population, the bloc’s top official announced on Tuesday. “70% of adults in the European Union are now fully vaccinated, and that is more than 250 million people who are immunized”, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced in a video statement. […]
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Tue 31 August 2021: Government is making every effort to reach population immunity and is investigating immunising children with the remaining vaccine stock once most adults are covered. “Just in the same way as when we were convinced that we have enough capacity and stock to cover the above 35. Therefore, when that stage arrives, […]
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Tue 31 August 2021: With the continent lagging far behind in vaccination efforts, COVID-19 claimed at least 663 more lives across Africa over the past day, according to the latest figures by the Africa CDC on Monday. The fatalities pushed the continent’s death toll to 194,823, while the number of infections swelled by 20,796 to […]
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Tue 31 August 2021: A US woman has won a court order for a hospital in Ohio to treat her husband, who is on a ventilator with COVID-19, with the antiparasitic medicine ivermectin, as demand surges for the unproven coronavirus treatment. The case is one of several nationwide where courts have sided with litigants seeking […]
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Tue 31 August 2021: The coronavirus disease may have entered Wuhan via frozen food imported from another country, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The first cases were recorded in Wuhan in December 2019, with the original patients being linked in some manner to regional seafood markets. The location of the […]
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Mon 30 August 2021: The European Union on Monday recommended that its member states reimpose travel restrictions on US tourists over rising covid infections in the country. The European Council, which represents the bloc’s 27 governments, said it was taking six territories off its list of locations exempted from restrictions on non-essential travel during the […]
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Mon 30 August 2021: Recently published research has revealed that the new COVID-19 variant C.1.2 has been identified in South Africa. According to the researchers, there are concerns that this SARS-CoV-2 variant of interest (VOI) has been associated with increased transmissibility, neutralisation resistance, and disease severity. “Here we report the identification of a potential variant […]
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Mon 30 August 2021: Around two million workers in restaurants and other service industries in France will now be required to display a health card in order to work. This is part of the French government’s response to the pandemic of coronavirus. A worker must apparently have confirmation of vaccination, a negative test result, or […]
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