Sat 14 August 2021: More than 4.62 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered worldwide, according to Our World in Data, a tracking website affiliated with Oxford University. Data on the website shows that China, where the coronavirus first emerged in late 2019, leads the global count with over 1.83 billion shots. India comes […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: Israelis aged 50 and over began receiving vaccine booster shots against the coronavirus Friday as the government steps up its drive to stem spiking infections caused by the Delta variant. Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, 56, rolled up the sleeve of his black polo shirt before a nurse plunged a syringe into […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: Canada will donate 10 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine to the COVAX sharing alliance for low-and middle-income countries, the government announced Thursday. “Vaccinating the world against COVID-19 continues to be the best strategy to end the pandemic,” Canada’s Minister of International development, Karina Gould, said in a media briefing. “With […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: Hospitals in Bangladesh are no longer able to accommodate COVID-19 patients due to the Delta-driven coronavirus surge across the country, the health minister said on Thursday. The coronavirus situation would be out of control if the prevailing pandemic situation gets worse, said Zahid Maleque. “Hospitals in the country were no longer […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that the next step in the search of the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus will be the creation of a new advisory group that will develop a global framework to study pathogens with pandemic potential. The first WHO fact-finding mission to China’s Wuhan, […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: Canada is planning to develop a digital vaccine passport for citizens who wish to travel overseas after imposing restrictions on unvaccinated persons. Officials from the government said on Wednesday that a digital vaccine passport will be accessible in the coming months. This vaccine passport will be “a key step forward in ensuring Canadians […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: The Palestinian Authority announced Thursday that it had received 150,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, amid an uptick in COVID-19 infections in the occupied West Bank, According to a statement from the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry in Ramallah, one million of the four million medicines requested from the pharmaceutical giant have been […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: The US Department announced on Thursday that all public-facing health-care personnel will be required to get vaccinated against Covid-19, following an increase in hospitalizations caused by the Delta version of the new coronavirus. The policy will apply to around 25,000 Department of Health and Human Services employees who could come into […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: According to the Supreme Leader’s official website, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for “decisive” measures to cope with the recent spikes in COVID-19 cases and deaths in the country. “The loss of more than 500 lives in one day and the grief of their families, as well as the infection of tens of thousands of people with their diseases and their medical problems, are really very painful … so we have duties to deal with it,” said Khamenei in […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: The World Health Organization (WHO) is finding more ways to stop the spread of coronavirus, especially with the new variants coming up such as the Delta variant which has also been dubbed as a ‘variant of concern’. The Organization on Wednesday announced that it will test three new drugs for COVID-19, […]
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