Mon 23 August 2021: The United Kingdom stated on Monday that it will receive another 35 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in the second half of next year in order to “future-proof” its vaccination program. “While we continue to build this wall of defence from Covid-19, it’s also vital we do everything we […]
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Mon 23 August 2021: The Egyptian government yesterday said it would not allow unvaccinated civil servants from accessing their places of work starting October. “The decision is taken as part of government measures to prevent a fourth wave of the coronavirus,” the Minister of Health, Hala Zayed, told reporters. Zayed added that all civil servants […]
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Mon 23 August 2021: The Northern Cape Department of Education is experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in schools, as the province continues to be hit by rising cases. According to a statement released on Sunday, the department recorded 526 new COVID-19 infections, which includes 54 educators, 439 learners and 33 support staff. “There was […]
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Mon 23 August 2021: On Monday, Australian authorities criticized a Sydney church for defying the city’s Covid-19 curfew by hosting a 60-person service near a pandemic hotspot. The church is affiliated with Christ Embassy, an international religious organization based in Lagos, Nigeria, that has a history of propagating conspiracy theories about Covid-19. Police raided the […]
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Mon 23 August 2021: The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) said it has finalised the investigation of the 32 people who allegedly died after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. “To date, investigations for 32 death cases have been completed and causality assessment concluded, of which 28 were coincidental to vaccination,” SAHPRA explained. According to […]
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Mon 23 August 2021: According to a study conducted in the United States, during the pandemic, aggression among spouses climbed six to eight times across the country. Physical aggression was confined to two acts per year before the pandemic began, but soared to 15 acts per year once the lockdown began, according to a study […]
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Mon 23 August 2021: Seven public hospitals in Israel have threatened to stop admitting new coronavirus patients starting Monday, citing budgetary problems and a shortage of personnel. The directors of the hospitals held a press conference Sunday in front of the Health Ministry building in West Jerusalem to draw attention to the difficulties they are […]
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Mon 23 August 2021: China reported no new domestic coronavirus cases Monday, and Beijing appears poised to bring to heel the pandemic’s most serious resurgence in months — driven by the highly contagious Delta variant — with mass testing and targeted lockdowns. The latest outbreak, which began in mid-July when cleaners at a Nanjing airport […]
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Sun 22 August 2021: The UK government on Sunday announced the rollout of a new nationwide antibody surveillance programme, which will make free home antibody tests available for up to 8,000 COVID-positive people a day. The UK Health Security Agency will offer these finger-prick tests to help improve the understanding of immunity against COVID-19 from […]
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Sun 22 August 2021: A vaccination skeptic and conservative US talk radio presenter died in hospital from complications related to a Covid-19 infection he developed last month. Nashville radio station SuperTalk 99.7 WTN tweeted on Saturday that radio star Phil Valentine had died. “We are saddened to report that our host and friend Phil Valentine […]
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