India’s second Covid wave may be worse than the first: Key points
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Covid-19 cases in India are rising at a rate not seen since May last year, and the daily infections in two states…
The 'disinformation dozen': Two-thirds of anti-vaxx content circulating on Facebook and Twitter can be traced back to just 12 people including Robert F Kennedy Jr, report claims
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Around two-thirds of viral anti-vaccine social media content circulating on Facebook and Twitter has been linked to just 12 notable individuals in new…
Pfizer has begun testing its coronavirus vaccine in children as young as six months
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE have begun testing their COVID-19 vaccine in children under age 12. Read More
Bill Gates predicts that the world won't return to normal until the END of 2022 and says the pandemic could have been avoided if the world's leaders had invested in testing at the very start
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Bill Gates said the world will not return to normal, with no traces of the COVID-19 pandemic, until the end of 2022….
Long Covid affects 70% of hospitalised patients, studies suggest, while women under 50 suffer worst outcomes
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Seven in 10 coronavirus patients admitted to hospital were still unwell five months after being discharged Read More
UNAIDS To Support People Living With HIV/AIDS In Nigeria
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The United States Agency for International Development, UNAIDS has restated the agency’s commitment to improving service delivery to persons living with HIV…
Covid variant first detected in UK now dominant strain in Spain
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The new, more contagious strain of the coronavirus that was first detected in the United Kingdom now accounts for half of all new…
Study confirms redmesivir shortens Covid recovery by 2 days
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The antiviral remdesivier cuts recovery time by about two days, but does not reduce the risk of dying from of the infection,…
Amid looming threat of fourth wave in Spain, only half of 80-and-over age group is vaccinated
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Reading Time: < 1 minute As the threat of a fourth wave of the coronavirus looms over Spain, many of the people most vulnerable to Covid-19 continue to…
Lockdown powers extended: Emergency Covid laws to remain in place for another six months
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Reading Time: < 1 minute MPs have backed the extension of Covid rules for further six months. Read More