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Irish COVID-19 surge driven by socialising, not new variant
The figures released by the state Department of Health do not include individuals who are asymptomatic or have symptoms of the coronavirus but are not being tested. Of the county's total cases to date, 4,643 are male and 5,583 are female. Manatee County's daily rate of new positive cases increased from 6% to 10.3%. [Full Article...]
Free vaccine in 1st phase across India
The Health Ministry on Saturday conducted a nationwide mock drill at 285 session sites to test the end-to-end planned operations and the mechanism that has been set up to ensure smooth conduct of the COVID-19 vaccination that is expected to begin soon. [Full Article...]
Evidence of UK Virus Strain Found in Florida
In addition to the United Kingdom, the new COVID-19 variant has been detected in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States .... [Full Article...]
Anthony Fauci, Surgeon General Push Back on Trump Covid Claims
The US has begun using two coronavirus vaccines to protect health care workers and nursing home residents and staff but the rollout of the inoculation programme has been criticised as being slow and chaotic. The number of USA cases has exceeded 20 million, with more than 1 million in NY state alone. "The goal of vaccinating 100 million people in the first 100 days is a realistic goal", he ... [Full Article...]
Israel vaccinated 1 million people
Britain has been at the forefront of approving the new coronavirus vaccines , becoming the first country to give emergency authorisation to the Pfizer/BioNTech and the AstraZeneca/University of Oxford vaccines last month. During a Skype interview with al-Hekaya (the story) show on MBC Masr, Zayed said that the government has identified vaccination sites in all of the country's 27 governorates. [Full Article...]
Ontario reports 3328 cases of COVID-19 including 194 in Ottawa today
Another 52 cases are considered resolved, Ottawa Public Health said, and there are no new deaths. For the day of Friday, 2476 new cases were counted, while for Saturday, a sad new daily record of 3363 infections was established. There were 1,235 patients in Ontario hospitals, according to data released Thursday, with 337 people in ICU and 210 requiring a ventilator. Also, a hospital in London,... [Full Article...]
DCGI grants ‘restricted use’ permission to two vaccines
Some side effects like mild fever, pain and allergy are common for every vaccine. The approval is expected to kick off one of the world´s biggest vaccination drives in the country of 1.3 billion people. Covaxin is the country's first indigenous vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech, a company based in Hyderabad, with backing from the Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of... [Full Article...]
United Kingdom reactivates emergency COVID-19 hospitals
The announcement came a few days after the popular Royal London Hospital informed its staff, through an email, that the hospital was now entering the "disaster medicine mode", meaning it will not be able to provide high standard critical care. [Full Article...]