Issued on: 03/03/2021 – 03:31 Millions of coronavirus shots from the global Covax scheme arrived in Nigeria, DR Congo and Angola on Tuesday, as African countries ramped up their vaccine rollouts. Advertising Read more While Africa’s most populous country Nigeria received almost four million jabs, DR Congo got 1.7 million doses and Angola welcomed more than […]
Issued on: 23/02/2021 – 03:28 Advertising Read more Vienna (AFP) While Austria has struggled to contain the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, it is fast emerging as a world leader in testing as a way to reopen schools and businesses. The small nation with a population of just under nine million tested three million […]
Approximately 2.3 million people across the UK have not received money back for flights they could not take in the last year, according to new research from Which?. Since the UK went into its first lockdown in the middle of March last year, millions of people have had flight bookings that were not cancelled by […]
Issued on: 09/01/2021 – 06:36 Advertising Read more Washington (AFP) The United States logged a record new daily virus caseload as Joe Biden slammed the Trump administration’s vaccine roll-out as a “travesty” and millions in Asia woke up to new lockdowns. Almost 1.9 million people have now died from the virus, with new variants sending […]
European countries began administering coronavirus vaccinations Sunday as a new, more contagious strain of the virus continued to spread throughout the continent. Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain were among the first European countries to administer vaccinations Sunday beginning with health care workers, according to NBC News. European Union (EU) regulators formally approved pharmaceutical company […]
Brits could be barred from entering EU countries from January 1 unless they renew passports, a new warning has said. Holidaymakers from the UK will need at least six months remaining on their passports under rules set to be introduced at the end of the Brexit transition period. Simon Rippon, a professor of philosophy working […]
Advertising Read more Hong Kong (AFP) Sportswashing, a player awash with cash and a country’s unlikely hero feature in AFP Sport’s golf talking points this week: – Casey’s Saudi flip – Paul Casey’s decision to play in Saudi Arabia next year has laid him open to charges of hypocrisy after he previously shunned the country […]