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Over 80,000 Health Workers Estimated Dead From COVID-19 By May – WHO

adminOctober 21, 2021

by adminOctober 21, 2021063

In this file photo taken on March 11, 2020, WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus attends a press briefing on COVID-19 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP The WHO said Thursday that 80,000 to 180,000 health care workers may have been killed by Covid-19 up to May this......

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Pfizer Says COVID-19 Booster Shot 95.6% Effective

adminOctober 21, 2021

by adminOctober 21, 2021055

An illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19 Vaccine stickers attached, with the logo of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, on November 17, 2020. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP A booster shot of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech is 95.6 per cent effective against symptomatic infection, according to trial data published by......

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Putin Orders Week-Long Paid Holiday To Curb COVID-19 Infections In Russia

adminOctober 20, 2021

by adminOctober 20, 2021093

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government via a teleconference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on October 20, 2021. PHOTO: Alexey DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a nationwide week-long paid holiday to curb Covid infections......

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US Supreme Court Rejects Attempt To Block Vaccine Rule

adminOctober 20, 2021

by adminOctober 20, 2021053

A US Supreme Court justice on Tuesday rejected a request by health workers in Maine to block a statewide vaccine mandate, while their wider legal challenge against the measure proceeds. All healthcare workers in the state will have to be fully vaccinated under the mandate, which comes into force on October......

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Moscow Orders Fresh COVID-19 Restrictions As Deaths Soar

adminOctober 19, 2021

by adminOctober 19, 2021074

A medical staff member accompanies a patient at the Covid-19 infected patients section at the Kommunarka Hospital outside Moscow on October 15, 2021. Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP Moscow’s mayor on Tuesday ordered the city’s first coronavirus restrictions since the summer, as Russia registered 1,015 daily COVID deaths, a new record. At the......

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Kaduna Mandates Covid Vaccination For Civil Servants

adminOctober 19, 2021

by adminOctober 19, 2021070

In this photo taken on August 16, 2021, a health official holds a vaccine tube and a syringe as Nigeria commences the second phase of COVID-19 vaccination. Channels TV/ Sodiq Adelakun. The Kaduna State Government has warned that anyone who wishes to enter any of its offices must comply with......

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U.S. To Allow Vaccine Booster ‘Mix And Match’

adminOctober 19, 2021

by adminOctober 19, 2021047

The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is prepared for administration at a vaccination clinic. Frederic J. BROWN / AFP The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to allow “mix and match” coronavirus vaccine boosting, in which people get a different additional shot to the dose they initially received, US media......

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First US Black Secretary Of State, Colin Powell, Dies Of COVID-19 Complications

adminOctober 18, 2021

by adminOctober 18, 2021058

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 7, 2005, former US Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses a press conference at Katunayake Military Airport in Colombo. (Photo by Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP) Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants who became a US war hero and the first Black......

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33 More Persons Die Of COVID-19 In Nigeria

adminOctober 18, 2021

by adminOctober 18, 2021089

A health worker helps his colleague with his PPE during a community testing as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TV At least 33 more persons have died from COVID-19, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said late Sunday. According to the health agency, 125......

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Russia Tops 1,000 Daily COVID-19 Deaths For First Time

adminOctober 16, 2021

by adminOctober 16, 2021063

A health worker wearing a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit tests a swab sample for COVID-19 at a primary health centre in Hyderabad on September 3, 2020. NOAH SEELAM / AFP Russia on Saturday topped 1,000 deaths over 24 hours for the first time since the start of the coronavirus......