A worker near the Pfizer facility in Purs, Belgium, on 3 December. Getty Images by Gert Vanden Vijangert / Bloomberg The first dose of Pfizer-Bioentech’s Covid-19 vaccine arrived in the UK on Thursday, a day after the country approved the vaccine for distribution, according to British media. Pfizer and Downing …
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An increase in the incidence of human-elephant conflict is driving sales, the state-owned daily New Era said in an announcement. Namibian elephants are one of the many species that are at risk of extinction due to poaching, illegal wildlife trade and ecological factors. The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism …
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Police said more than two dozen people were rescued Thursday night from a house in Houston, where they were being held in a human trafficking operation. According to police, a man running down the street shouted that he had been abducted and others were being held at home when officers …
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More than a quarter of Massachusetts’ cities and towns are now in the “red” zone at high risk for coronavirus transmission, with many communities registering new arbitrary cases even before the expected post-Thanksgiving growth. See city and city COVID-19 statistics. Sen. of the State. “From this argument we have the …
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The map measures stars closer to the edge of the galaxy than ever before. YouTube / ESA You can’t just run one Google Maps The car around the galaxy to diagram it. Luckily, then, new data collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia Observatory provides the most detailed map of …
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