Fri 06 August 2021: CNN has fired three employees who violated company policy by coming to work unvaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. Covid-19 vaccinations have been proven to be highly helpful at preventing major illness, and industries across the country are battling with workplace restrictions on getting them. Google, Facebook, and Uber have announced required […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: Due to the outbreak of the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus, Amazon Human Resources chief Beth Galetti wrote in an email to staff on Thursday that the deadline for employees to return to their offices has been postponed until January 22. “As we continue to closely watch conditions related to […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: France’s Constitutional Court said that it had supported the expansion of the use of the sanitary pass, which requires a coronavirus vaccination or a negative coronavirus test while visiting cafes and shopping malls. “A few tens of thousands of people have lost their minds to such an extent that they are […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron stated on his Instagram account that the old and vulnerable would most likely require a third COVID-19 vaccine shot, which France would begin administering in September. The World Health Organization’s head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on Wednesday for a halt on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: The new variants of the coronavirus may potentially be more infectious that the Delta variant, with the director of molecular pathology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre saying he “wouldn’t be incredibly surprised if something else came along that’s even more transmissible.” As the Delta variant of COVID continues to spread across the […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: Applications for the Special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grant will be opened from Friday, with the first payments expected to be made in the last week of August 2021. Announcing the re-introduction of the special COVID-19 SRD Grant, during a media briefing on Thursday, Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 200 million on Wednesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least 10% of the population in every country was vaccinated. (Graphic on global vaccinations) “We need an urgent reversal, […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: The US rejected a World Health Organization (WHO) call for a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot moratorium and urged wealthier countries to focus instead on supplying poorer countries on Wednesday. “We definitely feel that it’s a false choice and we can do both,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters, adding […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: In the study led by King’s College London, researchers found that children with symptoms of COVID-19 typically started to recover after six days, with only 4.4% of these children still experiencing symptoms after four weeks. The findings have been published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. Researchers analysed data reported by parents and carers […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on that the World Health Organization (WHO) is asking for a halt on booster COVID-19 vaccination doses until the end of September to ensure equal access to vaccines around the world. He said the move was to enable that at least 10% of the […]
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