GENEVA : The World Health Organization’s top emergency expert said Friday it would be “highly speculative” for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China, where it was first identified in a food market in December last year . China is pushing a narrative through state media …
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MUMBAI: Armed with interim findings from the AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trials, which showed 70% effectiveness in preventing people from becoming infected, the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) is ready to look for emergency regulatory approval and hopes to get the go-ahead by the end of the year. The ‘positive’ …
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has temporarily suspended issuing new visas to visitors from Pakistan and 11 other countries until further notice. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry confirmed the news on Wednesday saying that the decision by the UAE authorities “is believed to be related to the second wave of COVID-19,” …
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Geneva: World Health Organization ( who) boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus marked his return to the Geneva agency from quarantine on Monday after being exposed to coronavirus and said he didn’t see the need for a test. “I was fine, no symptoms. It is day 17 now and I followed the …
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GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that a vaccine alone would not stop the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic is raging months after it broke out, with infections exceeding 54 million and claiming more than 1.3 million lives. “A vaccine will complement the other tools we …
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BEIJING: The city of Jinan, in eastern China, said it found the new coronavirus in beef and tripe, and in the packaging of these products, from Brazil, New Zealand and Bolivia, as China intensifies tests on food frozen. The importers were a unit of Guotai International Group and Shanghai Zhongli …
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Many countries around the world are witnessing a resurgence in their daily coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and deaths. Cities like New York in the US, Turin in Italy, and London in the UK have been put under strict lockdowns due to the possibility of a second wave of the outbreak. In …
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NEW DELHI: World Health Organization announced on Friday that it will establish a Global Center for Traditional Medicine in India, prompting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to say that just as India has emerged as the ‘pharmacy of the world’, the WHO institution will become a center for the “global welfare”. …
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On Saturday, India recorded 44,684 new cases of the coronavirus disease, bringing the national count to 8,773,479, according to the Union Ministry of Health. The number of active cases is 480,719, while 81,635.72 patients have been discharged from hospitals, data from the Ministry of Health showed at 8 am. India …
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called Pfizer and BioNTech’s announcement on Monday that the vaccine they have jointly developed is 90% effective in preventing coronavirus infections in Phase 3 trials ongoing. On Twitter, Dr. Tedros said: “We welcome the encouraging vaccine news from @pfizer …
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