Coronavirus Updates
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Sydney hospitals erect emergency tents as COVID-19 peaked to new record
Australia’s new daily cases of COVID-19 topped 1,000 on Thursday for the first time since the global pandemic began, as two major hospitals in Sydney set up emergency outdoor tents to help deal with …
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Nigeria has approves Sinopharm COVID vaccine, expects 7.7 mln doses
Nigeria has recently approved China’s Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19, the head of the country’s primary healthcare agency said on Tuesday. Nigeria has been allocated 7.7 million doses of the vacc…
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Israeli scientists say its COVID-19 vaccine boosters showing signs of taming Delta variant
Less than a month into a COVID-19 vaccine booster drive, Israel is seeing signs of an impact on the country’s high infection and severe illness rates fuelled by the fast-spreading Delta variant, offi…
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UK to begin offering COVID antibody testing to general public for first time
The United Kingdom will begin offering COVID-19 antibody testing to the general public in the coming week for the first time, British media reported on Sunday. The government’s new programme is inten…
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U.S. to ship COVID-19 vaccine doses to Togo and Angola
The U.S. government will ship hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses to the African countries of Togo and Angola this weekend, a White House official said on Friday. The official said 188,37…
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Toronto’s hospital network says unvaccinated staff to be sacked by October
A healthcare network that operates several hospitals in Toronto said on Friday it would sack any staff members who are not fully vaccinated by the end of October. The University Health Network (UHN),…
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South Africa to open up COVID-19 vaccinations to 18-35 year olds from Friday
South Africa will open up COVID-19 vaccinations to those aged between 18 and 35 years old from Friday, the government said in a statement, as it tries to ramp up its immunisation drive. The country h…
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Australia’s Sydney punches in nightly curfew as Delta variant remains on rampage
Two million residents of Sydney will be under nightly curfew from next week to slow the highly infectious Delta variant of coronavirus that is spreading across New South Wales state, authorities said…
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No need for COVID booster jabs for now – WHO
Current data does not indicate that COVID-19 booster shots are needed, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, adding that the most vulnerable people worldwide should be fully vaccinat…
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Ghana receive 249,600 doses of UNICEF facilitated AstraZeneca vaccine
On Wednesday, August 18, 2021, 249,600 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines through the #COVAX facility arrived in Ghana following facilitation by UNICEF. UNICEF said it “continues to fulfill its c…