Sat 17 July 2021: Pilgrims with only fully vaccinated from around Saudi Arabia have begun traveling to the city of Jeddah where tour operators are set to take them to Mecca for the annual Hajj season. It is allowing 60,000 residents of Saudi Arabia to participate through a lottery, higher than in 2020 but drastically […]
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Fri 16 July 2021: The Biden administration has teamed up with the African Union and the Gavi Alliance, formerly known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, to provide 25 million coronavirus vaccine doses for the people of Africa, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday. “The United States, working with the […]
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Fri 16 July 2021: Africa has recorded a 43% week-on-week rise in COVID-19 deaths, as hospital admissions increase rapidly and countries face shortages in oxygen and intensive care beds. This is according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) which said that deaths also peaked at 6 273 in the week ending on 11 July from […]
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Fri 16 July 2021: One in every two persons hospitalised with COVID-19had developed at least one problem affecting key organs of the body, according to research published in The Lancet. Though difficulties were most likely in persons over the age of 50, the study discovered that younger people were also at risk. The authors say […]
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Fri 16 July 2021: The Eiffel Tower is to reopen to visitors for the first time in nine months, following its longest closure since World War II. The lifts are set to whir back into life, transporting tourists to its 300-metre (1,000-foot) summit, ending a long period of inactivity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily […]
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Fri 16 July 2021: Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 120 people suspected of supplying or procuring fraudulent coronavirus vaccine and test certificates, official media said Thursday, two days before a tightly controlled hajj. The suspects in the instance of counterfeit certificates are said to have advertised their services on social media which included changing […]
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Fri 16 July 2021: The number of coronavirus cases in India surpassed 31 million Friday as the country registered nearly 39,000 new infections in the last 24 hours. According to the Health Ministry, India on Friday, reported 38,949 new cases of COVID-19 and 542 more fatalities in the last 24 hours, taking its total tally […]
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Fri 16 July 2021: The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee on Thursday maintained its stance that proof of COVID-19 vaccination should not be required for international travel, amid a growing debate on blocking the entry of travelers if they are unvaccinated. The independent experts said that vaccinations should not be the only condition to permit […]
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Thu 15 July 2021: Millions of Chinese people face bans from public spaces including schools, hospitals and shopping malls unless they get a Covid-19 vaccine, under new edicts covering nearly two dozen cities and counties. The coronavirus first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, but since then the country has […]
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Thu 15 July 2021: The count of administered COVID-19 vaccine shots applied across the world has topped 3.51 billion as of Wednesday, according to Oxford University’s ourworldindata.org. China, where the outbreak first emerged, ranks first globally with more than 1.4 billion vaccine jabs delivered within the country, according to the available data, and it is […]
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