Fri 23 July 2021: South Africa has passed the peak of the Coronavirus third wave, which has infected over two million people, Acting Health Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said on Friday. Addressing the media on the progress of government’s efforts in the fight against COVID-19, the Minister said the number of new infections has started to […]
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Fri 23 July 2021: As the country battles an epidemic of the Delta strain in three states, Australia’s medicines regulator has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for use with 12 to 15-year olds, Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announced on Friday. Up until now, the Pfizer vaccine had only been approved for use in Australia for people aged 16 years and over. Before extending its authorisation for the Pfizer vaccine to be administered to this age group, the Therapeutic Goods Administration thoroughly evaluated domestic and international evidence, Hunt said in a statement. Similar clearances for the use of the vaccine in children were approved several weeks ago by regulators in the United States, European Union and Britain. […]
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Fri 23 July 2021: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday said it was considering sales of its gold holdings as well as other options to boost COVID-related lending programs. “Many directors recommended an early exploration of all financing options, including mobilizing internal fund resources and exploring gold sales ahead of the second stage,” the […]
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Fri 23 July 2021: US authorities have seized two domains supposedly selling unapproved drugs for the prevention or treatment of Covid-19 while falsely posing as sites run by Walmart. The two domains – http://pharmacywalmart.com and https://stromectol-ivermectin.com – both resolved to https://en.pharmacywalmart.com/buy-stromectol-usa.html and featured unauthorized use of the Walmart logo in an attempt to lend credibility […]
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Thu 22 July 2021: Despite China’s decision to reject the WHO study into the origins of the new coronavirus, White House secretary Jen Psaki indicated on Thursday that the Biden administration continues to support phase two of the WHO investigation. A top Chinese health official said Thursday that China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s (WHO)plan for the second phase of an investigation into the origins of COVID-19. “The US supports the WHO plan for phase two, which commits to ensuring these […]
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Wed 21 July 2021: Cape Town-based specialist biotech company, Biovac, has reached a deal to manufacture the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for distribution within the African Union (AU). According to a statement released on Wednesday, this makes Biovac the first company in Africa to produce a mRNA-based vaccine. Biovac is set to immediately commence technical transfer […]
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Wed 21 July 2021: The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 3.69 billion coronavirus vaccines doses have been administered worldwide, according to Our World in Data, a tracking website affiliated with Oxford University. Since the start of the global vaccination campaign, countries have experienced unequal access to vaccines and varying degrees of […]
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Wed 21 July 2021: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says event a ‘celebration of hope’ and reminder that only working together can end pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), has thrown his weight behind the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, even as a surge in the Delta variant drives a resurgence of COVID-19 […]
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Wed 21 July 2021: Delta variant now accounts for 83% of COVID-19 cases in the United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky said during a Senate hearing Tuesday. As of July 3, the variant, considered more easily transmissible and virulent than the original coronavirus, accounted for 50% of new cases. “This is […]
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Tue 20 July 2021: Despite a decline in overall COVID-19 cases and deaths in the Americas, recently, they still account for more than a quarter of all cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide, as well as 40 percent of all global deaths, officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. “There were almost one million […]
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