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

adminOctober 21, 2021

by adminOctober 21, 2021035

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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Global Oil Prices Won’t Decline Until 2023, Says World Bank

adminOctober 21, 2021

by adminOctober 21, 2021035

File photo. The stunning recent runup in global oil prices could threaten economic growth and is unlikely to retreat until 2023, the World Bank said Thursday. Average crude prices are expected to end the year at $70 a barrel, 70 percent higher than in 2020, according to the latest Commodity......

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

adminOctober 20, 2021

by adminOctober 20, 2021053

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, 2021044

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

adminOctober 18, 2021

by adminOctober 18, 2021055

(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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Bitcoin Exceeds $60,000 On US Fund Approval Hopes

adminOctober 16, 2021

by adminOctober 16, 2021089

(FILES) This file photo taken on June 17, 2014, shows bitcoin medals in Washington, DC. KAREN BLEIER / AFP Bitcoin breached the $60,000 mark for the first time since April on growing optimism that American regulators will greenlight the first US futures exchange-traded fund for the cryptocurrency. The digital currency......

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Defiant Brazilian President Makes U-Turn, Set For COVID-19 Vaccination

adminOctober 13, 2021

by adminOctober 13, 20210112

File Photo of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. AFP Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has confirmed he will not get vaccinated against Covid-19, having previously said he would be the “last Brazilian” to do so. The far-right leader has generated controversy over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and for initially downplaying......

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Global Energy Prices To Retreat In Early 2022 – IMF

adminOctober 12, 2021

by adminOctober 12, 2021079

In this file photo taken on October 07, 2021 the seal of the International Monetary Fund is seen outside of its headquarters in Washington, DC. MANDEL NGAN / AFP Energy prices, which have soared in recent days, are likely to remain high in the coming months but begin to retreat......

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DR Congo Records New Ebola Case Five Months After Last Outbreak

adminOctober 9, 2021

by adminOctober 9, 20210122

In this file photo taken on June 13, 2017, a health worker walks at an Ebola quarantine unit in Muma, after a case of Ebola was confirmed in the village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. JOHN WESSELS / AFP One Ebola case has been recorded in the Democratic Republic......

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WHO Endorses First Malaria Vaccine

adminOctober 6, 2021

by adminOctober 6, 20210190

A picture of the billboard of the World Health Organization (WHO) The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine for children, the first against the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 400,000 a year. “Today, WHO is recommending the broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine,”......