coronavirus test that can give a result in 20 seconds has been given the green light to be used in Scotland. The rapid test, which is known as Virolens, was given approval by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ( MHRA ) earlier today.

Trials conducted at Heathrow Airport had shown that the test had 98.1% sensitivity, meaning that there was just under a 1% chance of a false negative.

It has also shown 99.7% specificity, which meant that there was just a 0.3% chance of a false positive.Individuals take a mouth swab to collect cheek and tongue cells before it is placed inside a testing cartridge.A Virolens operator then pops it into a machine, where it is examined by a holographic microscope.Holographic imaging is then run.

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Ontario ‘pausing’ use of AstraZeneca vaccine for those under 55 in accordance with NACI recommendation

At a news conference Monday, Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams said the province is pausing the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for those under the age of 55.

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Uttarakhand makes Covid RT-PCR test mandatory for people arriving from 12 states

Dehradun: Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Uttarakhand government on Tuesday made it mandatory for people coming from a dozen states to furnish negative RT-PCR test reports not older than 72 hours on arrival.Issuing the advisory, Chief Secretary Om Prakash said the restriction would apply to those coming from Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Rajasthan by road, air and trains from April 1.People coming from these states, including those residing in Uttarakhand, shall strictly adhere to the norms of safety and social distancing as per the guidelines of the Home Affairs and the Health ministries and that of the state government, the advisory

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'Covid savaged him': Family's lockdown easing warning after 'strong and healthy' dad, 46, died from coronavirus

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States struggle to get rent relief to tenants amid pandemic

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last July that New York would spend $100 million in federal coronavirus relief to help cash-strapped tenants pay months of back rent and avert evictions.

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No travel needed: Louvre puts its collection online

This might make the Mona Lisa smile.

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Raised fists, kneeling during anthem OK at US Olympic trials

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee will not sanction athletes for raising their fists or kneeling during the national anthem at Olympic trials, previewing a contentious policy it expects to stick to when many of those same athletes head to Tokyo this summer.

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Opposition grows to Quebec’s return to class in pandemic red zones

Quebec in ‘third wave’ of COVID-19 pandemic, health minister says While the majority of senior-grade high school students in Quebec red zones returned to class full-time as of Monday, a number of school boards opted for a staggered approach.Both the English Montreal and the Lester B. Pearson school boards will be welcoming students back to class in a systematic manner.Only secondary 3 students will be returning to a full-time in-class environment.The school board could not specify when secondary 4 and 5 students can return, only saying that the dates could vary from school to school.All secondary 3 students for Lester B.

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COVID-19 outbreak at Brock University climbs to 31 cases

COVID-19 outbreak at Brock University has now sickened 31 students living on-campus.The St. Catharines, Ont., university says the 31 students are in self-isolation, while more students are isolating as testing continues.Niagara Region Public Health initially declared the outbreak on Friday, when 12 cases were confirmed.

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German Media Giant Bertelsmann Boosts Profit Despite COVID-19

German media giant Bertlesmann had a surprisingly good year. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Bertelsmann, which controls leading European commercial TV broadcaster RTL Group, production giant Fremantle, music label BMG, and book publisher Penguin Random House, boosted its annual profit by 34 percent to $1.77 billion (€1.5 billion) last year, the highest level since 2006, with operating (EBITDA) profit hitting a new high of $3.65 billion (€3.1 billion).

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Vaccination programme to be changed to age-based system

The National Vaccination Programme is to be changed to an age-based system, once those aged 70 years and older, the vulnerable and people with underlying conditions are immunised.

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Quebec reports more than 850 new COVID-19 cases as province begins third wave

COVID-19 pandemic.The case count has now reached 310,066 while the health crisis has killed 10,658 Quebecers to date. Recoveries, meanwhile, have topped 291,000.The number of hospitalizations related to the new coronavirus rose by 10 to 487.

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New Brunswick to provide COVID-19 update on Tuesday

COVID-19 Tuesday after the province widened the areas in the Edmundston region that are under its COVID-19 red level amid growing cases.Saint-Léonard, Grand Falls, Drummond, New Denmark and Four Falls have been included in the red level, which is the second-highest level in the province, as of midnight. N.B.

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Waterloo Region COVID-19 vaccination pre-registration opens to those in their 60s

Waterloo Region’s vaccination pre-registration portal now open for those in their 70s It also includes faith leaders who provide pastoral care in hospitals, long-term care, retirement homes or other vulnerable settings.The new list also includes those who are in the following variety of high-risk settings:The region also says that one essential caregiver for residents in the following high-risk congregate settings can also not pre-register for a vaccination: Waterloo COVID-19 pre-registration opens up to groups with health complications The region says that another over the age of 60 who fall into the aforementioned categories is should pre-register immediately and when their turn arrives to book an appointment, they should do so right

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Nova Scotia reports 3 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday

COVID-19 on Tuesday.One of the cases is in the central zone is a close contact of a previously reported case. Another case in the northern zone is under investigation, and the third case in the eastern zone is travel-related.There are 24 active cases in the province.As of Monday, the province has administered 94,373 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, and 25,102 Nova Scotians have received their second dose.Since Oct.

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COVID-19: New variants having ‘substantial impact’ on Ontario’s health care system, report says

new variants of concern (VOCs) are responsible for a 21 per cent increase in hospital admissions since Ontario went into its province-wide lockdown in December, according to a new report which warns the VOCs are having a “substantial impact” on the health care system.The report from Ontario’s COVID-19 science table published Monday said the new variants of concern now account for 67 per cent of all cases in the province, as numbers climb back into the 2000s per day. Ontario reports more than 2,300 new COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths Dr.

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COVID-19: Latest developments in the Greater Toronto Area on March 30

COVID-19 pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area for Tuesday.Toronto Public Health says that as of Monday morning, 55.6 per cent of the city’s residents in that age group had received at least one shot, with nine per cent fully vaccinated.By comparison, the provincial government said Monday that 77 per cent of Ontarians 80 and older had gotten their first dose.The proportion of residents aged 75 to 79 to have obtained at least one shot was the same for both, however, at 40 per cent.

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Woman breaks barriers as 1st African American ice hockey coach at Arcadia University

Photojournalist Bill Rohrer has the details.It’s been two years in the making. Arcadia University has everything in place to start playing women’s hockey next fall.

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Supreme Court case could change the nature of college sports

WASHINGTON – A Supreme Court case being argued this week amid March Madness could erode the difference between elite college athletes and professional sports stars.

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Consumer confidence surges in March to highest point in year

WASHINGTON – U.S. consumer confidence surged in March to the highest reading in a year, helped by increased vaccinations and more government economic support.

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Police use dog toys to entice coyote out of South Carolina woman’s kitchen

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - After a coyote wandered into a home in South Carolina, responding police officers had to think creatively in order to lure the animal out of the resident’s kitchen.Officers were called March 19 to a home in Spartanburg, located about 75 miles west of Charlotte, after a woman found the surprise guest in her home. "One of my dogs came through here, and he started barking and looking all over, like there was a mouse or something," Sandie Ferguson told local news station WSPA-TV.Ferguson said the coyote came through a dog flap in her door and hid in the corner of the kitchen."When I first saw him, I thought ‘It’s a coyote.

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Arsenal star Lucas Torreira's mum dies after Covid-19 battle

Uruguayan daily Ovacion. Viviana Di Pascua, 53, was recently admitted to intensive care after contracting the coronavirus in Uruguay.

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Rangers Covid 5 verdict revealed as Ibrox sinners hit with six-game ban

Rangers players who breached strict rules to attend a a lockdown party have been with a six-game ban, with two suspended.Nathan Patterson, Calvin Bassey, Bongani Zungu, Dapo Mebude and Brian Kinnear were in the SFA dock and the quintet could play in the last game of the league season and if they go on a Scottish Cup run.The hearing date was set for Thursday, March 25 and a decision was expected on Monday before it was pushed back until today.A precedent had already been set this season after two other Rangers stars flouted the rules.Jordan Jones and George Edmundson were hauled up for attending a party earlier this season with the duo receiving seven-game bans.Both were loaned out in January with Jones starring for Sunderland and Edmundson

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Manitoba to withdraw $215M from rainy day fund to help pay for pandemic

Coronavirus: Manitoba asks for emergency federal credit fund, says PST won’t be reduced The move comes as little surprise as Premier Brian Pallister has said the fund, worth about $800 million, would need to be used.“Let’s talk about some things that need to be talked about,” he said near the beginning of the pandemic last year.“Our revenue is down. Not a little — a lot.

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Ontario reports more than 2,300 new COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths

COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the sixth straight day cases are above 2,000, bringing the provincial total to 347,570.Tuesday’s case count is higher than Monday’s which saw 2,094 new infections. On Sunday, 2,448 new cases were recorded and 2,453 on Saturday.According to Tuesday’s provincial report, 727 cases were recorded in Toronto, 434 in Peel Region, 229 in York Region, 194 in Durham Region, 144 in Ottawa, 123 in Hamilton, and 91 in Halton Region.All other local public health units reported fewer than 70 new cases in the provincial report.The death toll in the province has risen to 7,351 as 14 more deaths were recorded.

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'Lighting a fuse': Amazon vote may spark more union pushes

What happens inside a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, could have major implications not just for the country's second-largest employer but the labor movement at large.

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Manitoba to withdraw $215M from rainy day fund to offset pandemic costs

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Doctor's warning on GMB to 'keep social circles small' or Covid cases could rise

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Years later, Chickasaw remains returning to Mississippi home

JACKSON, Miss. – A man and a woman were found buried among wolf teeth and turtle shells. Other graves contained mothers and infants. Some tribal members were laid to rest with beloved dogs.

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Donations for Asian American groups surge after killings

Donations and contribution pledges to Asian American and Pacific Islander groups have spiked since the March 16 shooting in Atlanta that killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, and brought renewed attention to violence against Asian Americans.

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US home prices soared in January by most in seven years

WASHINGTON – U.S. home prices increased at the fastest pace in seven years in January as the pandemic has fueled demand for single-family houses even as the supply for such homes shrinks.

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COVID-19: Toronto lagging behind province when it comes to vaccinating those 80 or older

COVID-19.Toronto Public Health says that as of Monday morning, 55.6 per cent of the city’s residents in that age group had received at least one shot, with nine per cent fully vaccinated.By comparison, the provincial government said Monday that 77 per cent of Ontarians 80 and older had gotten their first dose.

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Biden announces diverse first slate of judicial nominees

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his intent to nominate a “trailblazing slate” of judicial nominees, a field that includes Black, Muslim American and Asian American Pacific Islander candidates for federal courts and for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

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MLB to relax virus protocols when 85% on field vaccinated

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Health expert on GMB says 'it's only right' over-70s should have to resit driving test

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Covid Scotland LIVE as Nicola Sturgeon confirms lockdown easing

John Swinney apologised last night after deleting evidence of a direct breach of coronavirus regulations while out on the campaign trail.The Deputy First Minister deleted a picture he posted on Twitter of himself and four other party activists after they met up while out leafleting for the May election.The picture, uploaded online around 3pm on Friday March 26 was captioned: "Delighted to get out on the SNP campaign trail today."The image was swiftly deleted from online.

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Nicola Sturgeon to hold coronavirus briefing later today - what time is it and how to watch it

coronavirus statistics from across Scotland. The First Minister will give an update to the country ahead of a slight easing of lockdown restrictions in the coming week.

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UK watchdog: Police acted correctly at vigil for slain woman

LONDON – A U.K. police watchdog said Tuesday that officers didn't behave “in a heavy-handed manner” when they broke up a vigil for a London woman whose killing sparked an outcry about women's safety.

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Croke Park confirmed as HSE Covid-19 vaccination centre

The HSE has confirmed that Croke Park is to be used as a mass vaccination centre.

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Biden names diverse slate of judicial nominees for federal courts

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his first slate of judicial nominees, made up of a diverse group with a range of backgrounds, to serve as federal district or appeals court judges. In a statement, Biden called his 11 nominees "the very best and brightest minds of the American legal profession." The group includes three Black female nominees for circuit court vacancies and candidates who, if confirmed, would be the first Muslim American federal judge in U.S. history, the first Asian American woman to serve on the U.S.

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‘We feel grief and anger’: BTS condemns anti-Asian racism, says they’ve experienced it themselves

SEOUL, South Korea - K-pop superstar group BTS has condemned racism against Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in a statement saying they've experienced it themselves."We stand against racial discrimination," BTS tweeted Tuesday in English and Korean. The band said their own painful encounters with racism included "expletives" and being "mocked for the way" they look.

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Call for pregnant teachers to continue remote working

The Teachers' Union of Ireland has called for the provision that has allowed pregnant teachers to work remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic to be continued after the Easter break.

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Couple who met playing GTA Online made homeless by pandemic and forced to live in shed

coronavirus pandemic and are being forced to live in a shed.Macaulay Johnson and Shannon Cullen, both 21, were kicked out of their home in Bestwood village, Nottinghamshire because they could no longer pay the rent, NottinghamshireLive reports.

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Canada expected to receive 1.5M doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from U.S.

AstraZeneca vaccine from the United States Tuesday.The vaccines are expected to arrive by truck and represent the first to come from south of the border. Why does AstraZeneca vaccine guidance keep changing? Experts weigh in Provincial governments decide on their own how to use a vaccine, but Dr.

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KSI signs new open letter urging Black Britons to take COVID-19 vaccine

KSI has signed a new open letter urging Black Britons to take the COVID-19 vaccine.The rapper and YouTube star is among the famous faces who have lent their support to the open letter, which has been written by comic legend Lenny Henry.Henry said that people should “trust the facts” surrounding the vaccine, with his message also being backed by Oscar-winner Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton and DJ Trevor Nelson.The letter comes as statistics continue to reveal the gulf in vaccination rates between Black Britons and white Britons.Recent figures from the ONS show that vaccination rates for people in England of Black African heritage currently stand at 58.8 percent, the lowest among all ethnic minority groups, and 68.7 percent within the Black

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3rd COVID-19 wave will lead to difficult weeks ahead for Ontario hospitals: OHA

COVID-19 in the weeks ahead.Anthony Dale says if the trend of increasing patient numbers arriving in the province’s hospitals continues, it will further strain capacity.Dale says that will lead to patient transfers running “24-7” to ensure they receive life-saving care and additional cancelled surgeries will be added to the current backlog of 250,000 procedures.He says intensive care units across Ontario are seeing younger patients, with more severe cases of COVID-19, which is straining the system.

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