Thu 23 December 2021: Turkey launched mass production of its domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine Turkovac on Wednesday after receiving emergency use approval following studies on volunteers that demonstrated its efficacy. Turkey quickly took action once the country’s first coronavirus case was reported in March 2020 and launched studies to develop its first vaccine to combat […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: As winter holidays approach, many Americans won’t just miss out on celebratory meals because of isolation forced on them by the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead millions of people in the US will go literally hungry due to the deep economic crisis gripping the country. According to Bloomberg, hunger is on the rise […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: Ottawa announced on Wednesday that it would expand support programs to assist people and businesses affected by the Omicron coronavirus variant, warning that the virus’ spread would make things worse. The country’s chief public health officer, Theresa Tam, warned Canadians to be cautious, saying at a press conference that “the situation […]
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Thu 23 December 2021: According to state media, a Tunisian court has sentenced former President Moncef Marzouki to four years in prison in his absence for “assaulting” the state’s security. The 76-year-old, who now lives in France, had previously criticized President Kais Saied and called for demonstrations. On Wednesday, local media reported that he was […]
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Wed 22 December 2021: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the opposition’s calls to hold snap elections in Turkey and said the country will hold elections as scheduled in June 2023, Anadolu reports. Erdogan on Wednesday stressed that holding early elections was out of the question after opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu asked for the snap election due to […]
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Wed 22 December 2021: While the Omicron variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in South Africa, findings are showing that it is less severe, with fewer hospitalisations compared to the previous waves. The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) revealed this during a media briefing on Wednesday. According to the NICD’s Professor Cheryl […]
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Wed 22 December 2021: The World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Wednesday that it will reduce food aid to Yemen beginning in January due to a lack of funds. “From January, eight million (Yemenis) will receive a reduced food ration, while (the other) five million at immediate risk of slipping into famine conditions will remain on a full ration,” the humanitarian agency said in a statement on its website. “Every time we reduce the amount of food, we know […]
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Wed 22 December 2021: Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that wealthy countries did too little to combat the spread of new COVID-19 variants because they failed to vaccinate more vulnerable parts of the world. Brown wrote in a Monday op-ed in The Guardian that the new Omicron coronavirus variant is not Africa’s […]
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Wed 22 December 2021: On Wednesday, the death toll from Malaysia’s worst floods in years climbed to 27, as the clean-up operation progressed and residents assessed the disaster’s damage. Rivers overflowed over the weekend due to days of torrential rain, flooding cities, cutting off major roads, and forcing tens of thousands of people to flee […]
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Wed 22 December 2021: Nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the US Secret Service said Tuesday. The estimate is based on Secret Service cases and data from the Labor Department and the Small Business […]
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