Sun 08 August 2021: Future variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, could be named after star constellations when Greek letters run out, Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) technical chief for COVID-19, told The Telegraph. In late May, the WHO said that the strains of COVID-19 would be named with Greek […]
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Sun 08 August 2021: COVID-19 made 2020 the worst year on record for air travel. According to statistics issued by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the number of passengers that traveled in 2020 has dropped by 60%. Only 1.8 billion passengers flew in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the previous […]
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Sun 08 August 2021: Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that applications for Muslim pilgrims wishing to perform umrah from abroad will be accepted beginning Monday, with 2 million requests per month being processed. The Saudi news agency SPA cited Deputy Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Dr. Abdulfattah bin Sulaiman Mashat, who said his ministry “has […]
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Sat 07 August 2021: The UK government has been thinking inventive ways to encourage young people to get vaccinated against coronavirus in order to reach out to more young people. In such an attempt, the University of Sussex has come up with one of the best incentives that one could think of university students — […]
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Sat 07 August 2021: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 6,964,194 as of Saturday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union, said the death toll from the pandemic stands at 175,878 while 6,082,655 patients across the […]
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Sat 07 August 2021: Over 11 billion dollars COVID-19 vaccine doses are required to fully inoculate about 70% of the population against the new coronavirus, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated. Guterres said vaccines must reach everyone everywhere “as quickly as possible” in a renewed push to vaccinate the world to avoid the emergence of new […]
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Sat 07 August 2021: The count of COVID-19 vaccine doses given worldwide has reached 4.40 billion on Saturday, according to Our World In Data, a tracking website affiliated with the University of Oxford. The available data on the website shows that China, where the coronavirus first emerged in late 2019, leads the global count with over […]
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Sat 07 August 2021: After months of China having COVID-19 cases relatively under control, the coronavirus in it’s new variant called Delta variant spreading across multiple cities in the country, including the pandemic’s original epicentre of Wuhan. China stepped up measures to protect its capital, Beijing, as an uptick in coronavirus cases driven by the […]
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Fri 06 August 2021: Vaccine passports have not been very popular among UK residents, but the government believes they will become a permanent fixture of overseas travel in post-pandemic times. As of now, the UK requires all visitors to produce proof of being completely vaccinated against the coronavirus in order to enter the nation without […]
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Fri 06 August 2021: Within a few weeks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may have a plan on Covid vaccination boosters. This plan will specify when an individual should receive their third shot. According to WSJ sources familiar with the study in process, the FDA may be able to release a booster shot method […]
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