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[ad_1] PARIS – The European Union prepared to launch a vaccine on Saturday, even as the bloc countries were forced back into lockdown by a new strain of the virus, believed to be more infectious, which has spread from Britain to France and Spain and even like Japan. The pandemic …

[ad_1] With polls pointing to high levels of vacillation in countries from France to Poland, European Union leaders from 27 countries are touting it as the best chance to get back to something like normal life next year. “We are starting to turn the page in a difficult year,” Ursula …

[ad_1] By Reuters 12h ago Share this article: SharecheepShareShareShareE-mailShare London – The European Union approved on December 21 the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the latest regulatory go-ahead for the injection, while the United States authorized Moderna’s vaccine on December 19, the second for the country and the …

[ad_1] By AFP 15h ago Share this article: SharecheepShareShareShareE-mailShare Paris – Several EU nations were due to start vaccinating their most vulnerable groups on Sunday when a new variant of the coronavirus spread internationally and the WHO warned that the current pandemic will not be the last. The first doses …

[ad_1] South Africa officially surpasses the one million mark for Covid-19 cases. This after a little more than 9,000 new cases were registered on Sunday. The first case of Covid-19 reported in the country was on March 5. South Africa has passed the one million case mark for total Covid-19 …

[ad_1] Illustrative image | Sources: Gallo Images / Darren Stewart | Financial Mail / Freddy Mavunda | EPA / KIM LUDBROOK | Wikimedia | EPA-EFE / Thais Llorca | Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg While we all want 2021 to start with a clean slate, it will not. Many key themes …

[ad_1] An additional 214 deaths related to COVID-19 were reported on Sunday, bringing the total death toll in the country to 26,735. Emergency paramedics wearing full COVID-19 coronavirus personal protective equipment (PPE) transfer an empty stretcher to an ambulance at Greenacres Hospital in Port Elizabeth on July 10, 2020. Image: …

[ad_1] File Photo: A general view of Clifton Lackay queuing and buying alcohol at Blue Downs Mall on the 66th day of the national lockdown on June 1, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo: Gallo Images / Roger Sedres) In a recent digicom presented by Alan Winde, the Western …

[ad_1] JOHANNESBURG – The Gauteng Health Department says more than 300 people in communities around Sandton, Alexandra and Houghton contracted COVID-19 on Christmas Day alone. READ: NCCC meets as COVID-19 cases close to 1 million The department revealed that the sub-district, known as Region E, is currently the hardest hit …

[ad_1] Amid reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa is ready to impose additional lockdown restrictions on South Africans, the alcohol industry is pleading with the government not to ban the sale of spirits. Various sources said on Sunday (December 27) that the president would meet with cabinet ministers as part of …