Slovakia has received its first shipment of 200,000 Sputnik V doses, the second European Union member state to obtain the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine. Slovakia has had the world’s highest per-capita death rate related to COVID-19 in the past week, according to the Our World in Data website. The country follows Hungary in rolling out the […]
Issued on: 28/02/2021 – 03:08 Advertising Read more Wellington (AFP) The America’s Cup final between Team New Zealand and Italy’s Luna Rossa on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour was pushed back on Sunday as a coronavirus outbreak plunged the city back into lockdown. The first four races in the best-of-13 showdown were scheduled for next weekend but […]
With the UK on track to vaccinate all its priority groups with a first dose by mid-April, the target date for getting an initial vaccine to the rest of the British population has been brought forward by a month, to the end of July. In conjunction with this, prime minister Boris Johnson has revealed his […]
Advertising Read more Paris (AFP) As reports this week from Scotland and Israel — where much or most of the population have gotten Covid jabs — confirm that vaccines largely prevent people from getting sick, another question is emerging: do they also block infection? A lot depends on the answer, experts say. If vaccines being […]
Issued on: 23/02/2021 – 15:12Modified: 23/02/2021 – 15:10 Advertising Read more Colombo (AFP) Sri Lanka’s minority Muslims demonstrated in Colombo Tuesday demanding an end to forced cremations of Covid-19 victims as Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived on an official visit. Dozens of Muslims carried a mock janazah, or coffin, denouncing the Sri Lankan government’s […]
In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew looks at the popularity of the Democrats’ COVID-19 relief plan and how both Democrats and Republicans are thinking about its provisions. They also track the latest voting restrictions introduced by Georgia Republicans and ask whether a recent survey of Americans’ attitudes about secession is a […]
Lucy, a patient of mine, contracted COVID-19 in the first wave of the pandemic, before lockdown. She had trouble breathing and her doctor told her to call an ambulance if her lips turned blue. Luckily, she recovered well at home with rest and paracetamol – but it wasn’t the end. A week later, she suddenly […]
Issued on: 20/02/2021 – 15:18Modified: 20/02/2021 – 15:16 Advertising Read more Paris (AFP) Covid-19 continued to spread through France’s Six Nations squad on Saturday after prop Mohamed Haouas and winger Gabin Villiere followed scrum-half Antoine Dupont and coach Fabien Galthie in testing positive. Before the players returned to France’s Marcoussis training centre after a Six […]
Back in early January, Prime Minister Boris Johnson predicted that “with a fair wind in our sails”, the UK would be able to offer a first COVID-19 vaccine dose to its first four priority groups by mid-February. The winds have evidently been good. All frontline health workers, care home staff and residents, extremely clinically vulnerable […]
A star-filled video urging people from ethnic minority communities to get the Covid vaccine will be shown across the UK’s main commercial TV channels later. Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal and Romesh Ranganathan are among the celebrities who feature in the video, which has previously been released online. More stars have been added to the version […]