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[ad_1] LONDON: Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority (BAME) groups, including people of Indian origin in the UK, are reluctant to get vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a new study urging the UK government to launch campaigns more specific. Given that the UK has covered nearly 138,000 people in the first …

[ad_1] OFFICE MEMORIAL Colleagues of Guihulngan City Health Officer Dr. Mary Rose Sancelan, who was shot to death by unknown killers along with her husband on their way home Tuesday, erected their own memorial outside her office . Sancelan had previously expressed fears for her life after she and other …

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: The Biontech and Pfizer logos are seen on display in this illustration taken on November 10, 2020. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / Illustration BERLIN – Germany will launch the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 on December 27, prioritizing the elderly in nursing homes, the Berlin city government said …

[ad_1] Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that users will be required to delete new tweets that make misleading or harmful claims about COVID-19 vaccines, in an expansion of its rules on misinformation about the coronavirus. The social media company said in a blog post that users could be asked to …

[ad_1] ORLANDO, Fla. – Thousands of AdventHealth employees were part of a historic first for the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday morning. About 20,000 frontline workers have signed up to receive a dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, and healthcare professionals working in intensive care and COVID-19 units will be some of …

[ad_1] PARIS – Climate change, oil spills, deforestation. Injury to the natural world by states and corporations threatens entire ecosystems and endangers the environment that supports life itself. But are they crimes? Many think so and the idea of ​​criminalizing “ecocide” is beginning to gain ground. “People are starting to …

[ad_1] Moscow, like many other European capitals, is struggling to contain the virus Several European countries tightened restrictions on Wednesday, as Germany set a record for daily deaths and the United States broke its own daily record for infection numbers. The toughest measures came when EU countries agreed to implement …

[ad_1] The government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are discussing the possibility of leveraging the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Center (Apvax) to help finance the procurement of vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) next year. According to the Manila-based multilateral lender, the $ 9 billion facility offers prompt …

[ad_1] Two senators presented different views on the government’s experiment to return to face-to-face classes in January. Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, chairman of the Senate Health and Demographics Committee, questioned Wednesday the mock face-to-face classes planned by the Department of Education (DepEd) in low-risk areas for coronavirus disease 2019. …

[ad_1] It’s official: the FDA has given the green light to administer the Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX) coronavirus vaccine on US soil. Doses of the vaccine will be meager at first and therefore limited to healthcare workers and nursing home residents, those who are said to be …