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South Africa suspends use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine after it fails to clearly stop virus variant

Jon CohenScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.Another COVID-19 vaccine has run into trouble in South Africa, showing less protection there than elsewhere because a SARS-CoV-2 variant that can apparently dodge key antibodies has become widespread.

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Bill Gates warns of next two disasters facing world after predicting Covid outbreak

coronavirus.He predicted the spread of the virus, saying "people will feel well enough while they're infectious that they get on a plane or they go to a market".The Microsoft boss' latest prediction has a bleak outlook, as he believes the greatest threats to humanity comes down to climate change and bioterrorism, outside of Covid.Gates gave a TED talk, called, 'The Next Outbreak? We're Not Ready'.In that episode, he spoke about the potential for a virus similar to Covid-19 and stressed humans needed to be prepared.At the time, he said: "If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war."Not missiles, but microbes."Appearing on YouTube channel Veritasium, alongside

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Mountain rescuer seriously injured falling 500ft trying to reach Covid rule breaker

A mountain rescuer fell 500ft trying to reach a stranded camper breaching Covid-19 lockdown rules.

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Fourteen people slapped with £11,000 Covid fines for attending one-year-old's birthday

More than a dozen people have been slapped with £11,200 in Covid fines after they were caught at a one-year-old's birthday party.

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Need info on Covid-19 vaccination? Co-WIN details are live on Aarogya Setu

@GoI_MeitY @NITIAayog @NICMeityThe number of healthcare and frontline workers vaccinated on Sunday against coronavirus has crossed the 58 lakh mark on day 23 of the countrywide vaccination program. The cumulative number of healthcare workers and frontline workers vaccinated against COVID-19 is 58,03,617 (as of 6:40 pm ), as per the government.

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Alberta prepares to ease some pandemic restrictions on Monday

Alberta will be easing some restrictions on Monday, amid a decline in new COVID-19 cases. Dining in at restaurants as well as some fitness activities will now be allowed.

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One in three ambulance workers have had Covid-19 - most catching it at work

More than one in three ambulance staff have had Covid-19 – mainly catching it while at work, according to new research.

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Kids back at practice as in-person dining and gyms open in Alberta on Monday

Alberta Health reports 351 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths on Sunday Restaurants have been closed to in-person dining since mid-December as part of efforts to help curb the spread of the virus. The same restrictions that were in place back then, including 50 per cent capacity, still apply.Many restaurants have been operating at a loss since then.“A lot of restaurants are just hanging on by a thread, and we are not excluded from that.

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There are no new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand since our media statement yesterday, either at the border or in the community.

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Ultra-rare Covid reaction turned man yellow and left him needing blood transfusion

coronavirus.After first hoping they would go away with time, Lenny was admitted to the Countess of Chester Hospital.The ultra-rare symptoms were so shocking that doctors have said they believe Lenny to be just one of 12 people in the UK who have had the same reaction to the virus. Speaking about his ordeal, Lenny told CheshireLive : "I woke up one morning and I thought there was something wrong with the mirror in the bedroom because I was yellow, I've got jaundice and, to put it plainly, I look like Bart Simpson.

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Philadelphia Federation of Teachers to protest district's reopening plan on Monday

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and its members will participate in a "day of action for safe schools" on Monday to protest the School District of Philadelphia's plan to welcome a limited number of students back in two weeks.Union boss Jerry Jordan will be joined by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and state leader Arthur Steinberg on a four-stop tour of Philadelphia schools.MORE: Philadelphia Federation of Teachers tells members not to report to school buildings MondayUnion leadership, which will also be joined by a cohort of educators and politicians, will hold an 8:30 press conference at Gompers Elementary School in the Overbrook section of the city.

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Alberta Health reports 351 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths on Sunday

Alberta government adds minor sports training, gymnastics and dance to Monday’s COVID-19 reopening Alberta now has 6,242 active cases, 118,816 recoveries and 1,709 deaths from the virus.The Calgary zone has the highest active case count with that number reaching 2,508 as of Sunday; the Edmonton zone follows with 1,889, the North zone with 814, the Central zone with 694 and the South zone with 318. There are 19 cases in an unknown zone.In total, there are 434 people currently in hospital, with 81 of them in ICU.The 351 new cases came from 8,241 tests, giving a provincial positivity rate of 4.3 per cent.Alberta Health said a total of 118,384 vaccine doses had been administered by Feb.

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Coronavirus: First case of Brazil COVID-19 variant identified in Toronto

The first case of the P.1 COVID-19 variant that was first identified in Brazil, which is believed to be highly transmissible, has been confirmed in Toronto.

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Coronavirus: 4 isolation centres now open in Peel Region to help tackle spread of COVID-19

The Region of Peel is a known hotspot when it comes to COVID-19 transmission. Within the past month, three additional isolation centres have been opened to help curb the spread of the virus.

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Covid vaccines give blockchain a shot in the arm

Big backingStaTwig got support in developing and deploying its solution from the innovation fund of Unicef, which is the world’s largest distributor of vaccines. The startup graduated from the Unicef innovation programme in March 2020.

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Brooks Koepka eagles 17, rallies to win Phoenix Open

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Brooks Koepka chipped in from 32 yards for eagle on the 17th hole to break a tie for the lead and then parred the last for a one-stroke victory Sunday in the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

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This is what Super Bowl Sunday looked like in Tampa

Super Bowl Sunday looks a little different this year.

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Coronavirus: Hamilton reports 88 new COVID-19 cases, 2 outbreaks at Juravinski hospital over

COVID-19 cases in Hamilton on Sunday and the end of two outbreaks at the Juravinski Hospital that started in January.The city also reported three more deaths on Sunday involving two people over 80 and one over 60.The outbreak at Macassa Lodge claimed its 11th death on the weekend. The home has had 50 COVID-19 cases among 33 residents and 17 workers since starting on New Year’s Day.

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Katie Price urges everyone to get Covid vaccine after Harvey's 'unique' reaction

Katie Price has urged everyone to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

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Brazilian COVID-19 variant, believed to be more transmissible, found in Toronto

COVID-19 variant, which is believed to be more transmissible than other strains of the novel coronavirus, has been found in the city.In a news release Sunday, officials said the case involves a Toronto resident who is hospitalized and recently travelled from Brazil.It marks the first known case of the strain in Ontario.Officials also confirmed a case of the South African variant in Toronto involving a person who has no links to travel. Ontario confirms 1st case of South African coronavirus variant, no known link to travel It marks the second known case of the South African variant in Ontario, with the first being a man in Mississauga.

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Laughton's 1st hat trick lifts Flyers past Capitals, 7-4

WASHINGTON – Scott Laughton scored his first career hat trick, Sean Couturier had two goals in his first game back following a rib injury and the Philadelphia Flyers pulled away for a 7-4 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.

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Senate Republicans back Trump as impeachment trial nears

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s defenders in the Senate on Sunday rallied around the former president before his impeachment trial, dismissing it as a waste of time and arguing that the former president’s fiery speech before the U.S. Capitol insurrection does not make him responsible for the violence of Jan. 6.

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Testing required for international travelers coming to U.S. as COVID-19 cases climb

ORLANDO, Fla. – On Sunday, Florida saw coronavirus cases continue to climb, increasing by 6,000.

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GMP investigating video involving man who 'appears to be struck by police officer' after being called to Covid breach

direct to your inboxGreater Manchester Police say they are investigating a video involving a man who 'appears to be struck by a police officer' in Burnage.Officers had been responding to reports of a coronavirus breach of '100 people in a café' on Burnage Lane on Sunday afternoon (February 7).Police said the incident occurred as they were arresting a 38-year-old man on suspicion of assault and resisting arrest.The video, which has been widely circulated on social media shows a man being apprehended by two police officers. A scuffle takes place before the footage appears to show a male police officer strike the suspect in the face.

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Schools may open for two weeks in summer with windows open to reduce Covid risk

Boris Johnson could open schools during the period pupils would ordinarily be on summer break, it has been reported.

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Dan Levy takes us on a tour of ‘SNL’’s COVID safety protocols in host monologue

Saturday Night Live monologue to take the audience on a tour of the show’s coronavirus safety protocols.The Schitt’s Creek star and creator was the guest host on last night’s episode of the long-running US comedy show, marking his first appearance on the programme.After opening his monologue by talking about how his life has changed – for better and worse – since the success of Schitt’s Creek, Levy offered to take the audience on a backstage tour.

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4 isolation centres now open in Peel Region to help tackle spread of COVID-19

Peel Region remains one of the hardest-hit regions for COVID-19 in Ontario. To tackle the issue, public health officials said they are using every tool at their disposal, including rolling out more isolation centres.The medical officer of health for the region, Dr.

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Saskatchewan reports 3 more deaths due to COVID-19 and 194 new cases

Saskatchewan government reported three news deaths due to COVID-19, along with 194 new cases and 241 recoveries in its daily update on Sunday.One of the three deaths was recorded in the Regina zone in the 50-59 age group, another was recorded in the Far North Central zone in the 60-69 age group while the third death was recorded in the North West zone in the 70-79 age group. Saskatchewan requests investigation into COVID-19 outbreak at Regina’s Extendicare Parkside The new cases of COVID-19 bring the provincial total to 25,403, of which 2,363 are considered active.

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The latest Covid-19 infection rates for Greater Manchester as several boroughs move away from national average

direct to your inboxInfection rates in several areas of Greater Manchester are moving away from the national average.As of February 3, six boroughs across the region had a higher proportion of cases per 100,000 people than England as a whole.Rochdale, Wigan, Stockport, Salford, Manchester and Bolton now have a higher infection rate than the country's average, which is 222.4.Greater Manchester's average infection rate has also surpassed this figure, at 242.8 cases per 100,000 people.Bolton currently has the highest rate of infection across the conurbation, at 275.4 in the week ending February 3.Cases there are continuing to fall, but this appears to have stalled considerably in recent days.There were 792 new cases of Covid-19 there in the

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Montreal protesters rally against curfew, call for stricter public health measures

“We want them to immediately do away with the curfew — all it does is deflect from their failures,” said spokesperson for the Montreal Democratic Socialists of Canada, Max Chorney.They said policing and handing out fines will not cease the spread of COVID-19.“Take a health and science approach to the pandemic instead of a police approach. We’re not going to police the pandemic away,” said Chorney.

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Asymptomatic testing, closing of learning gap key issues in students’ return to Hamilton schools

Guelph, Hamilton, Waterloo Region students among those heading back to classroom Monday “We’ve really stepped up the ability to make sure that our public health units on the ground could deploy tests to make sure that if there’s any issues involved, we get in there, we test, we detect, we isolate and ultimately take action if required.”The chair of the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) Dawn Danko says the 25,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests made available for city schools will be under the purview of public health and will likely go to target “high-risk” schools in the region should there be an outbreak.“When we have an increase in cases and in a location in the community or where maybe there’s a trend

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WHO team investigating Wuhan Covid outbreak ‘find evidence’ of how pandemic started

World Health Organisation have found evidence that will bring them closer to determining how the coronavirus pandemic started in the Chinese city of Wuhan.“It’s the beginning of hopefully a really deep understanding of what happened so we can stop the next one,” said New York-based zoologist Peter Daszak, who is part of the team who say they have uncovered "important clues" about a Wuhan seafood market’s role in the outbreak.He said that the investigation will settle once and for all the question of whether the virus might have originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a maximum bio-containment laboratory studying bat-borne coronaviruses.“We really have to cover the whole gamut of key lines of investigation,” he told Bloomberg via

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34 new coronavirus cases in London and Middlesex; several outbreaks in Lambton Public Health

coronavirus cases along with one recovery on Sunday.The update brings the region’s COVID-19 case total to 5,876, of which 3,876 people have recovered.At least 177 people have died during the pandemic.At least 71 deaths have been reported so far this, year, including 69 through the month of January.London and Middlesex have seen at least four cases of the U.K. variant and none of the South African variant. Health officials have warned that cases could spike again if people fail to follow pandemic measures, especially as concerns mount over those more contagious variants.

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Coronavirus: WHO’s COVID-19 technical lead explains how coronavirus variants appear

The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, explained how variants of the novel coronavirus appear, and how to tackle the problem amid the COVID-19 pandemic, during her appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

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4 more COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba reported Sunday

Steinbach area church holds indoor service again, breaking public health orders As of 9:30 a.m.

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Church of God in Aylmer Ont., opts for drive-in service after receiving court order

Church of God in Aylmer, Ont., Sunday morning after the church received an interim order from the Superior Court.A spokesperson for the Ministry of the Attorney General said in an email to Global News the ministry first sent a cease and desist letter to the church on Feb. 4 but “they did not indicate whether they would comply with the requirements.”On Feb.

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New hospital opens in Vaughan to help health system with COVID-19 care

COVID-19 patients and a centre officials hope will add intensive care capacity to Ontario’s strained health-care system.The Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital in Vaughan won’t immediately open for full service, according to operator Mackenzie Health.Instead, the new facility will focus on its 35 ICU beds and 150 general internal medicine beds, which are currently earmarked for COVID-19 patients.

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How Many People Are At Super Bowl 2021? Stadium Is Only 30% Full Due to COVID-19 Pandemic

You may be looking at your television screen later on during the 2021 Super Bowl and wondering…how many people are allowed in Raymond James Stadium right now?

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AstraZeneca says it is tweaking vaccine to fight South African coronavirus variant

AstraZeneca vaccine expect to have a modified jab to cope with the South Africa coronavirus variant by autumn, the vaccine’s lead researcher said Sunday.Health officials in Britain are trying to contain the spread of the variant first identified in South Africa amid concerns that it is more contagious or resistant to existing vaccines. More than 100 cases of the South African variant have been found in the U.K.

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Paddy Doherty visits graveyard after battling Covid in hospital

direct to your inboxPaddy Doherty was in a reflective mood as he returned home from hospital after battling Covid-19.The My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star from Manchester headed to the cemetery on Sunday morning to pay homage to a late friend John Rooney and his family.Paddy raised a toast to the Rooneys with a bottle of Becks beer as he filmed their final resting places.Paying homage to John, who died in 2019 aged 62, he said: "Poor John Rooney. Listen, what a pipe-player he was, he was the bee's knees."And that's his son Felix, a good chap to play the penny whistle as well."As he panned his camera to the grave of 33-year-old Felix, who died in 2015, he said thoughtfully: "All the Rooneys I have great time for.

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Katie Price's son Harvey safe at home after Covid jab reaction as she urges others to have theirs

Katie Price and her son Harvey are delighted he got home from hospital after he became ill following his Covid jab. Katie, 42, rushed the 18 year old to casualty after Harvey complained he wasn't feeling rightShe told fans on Instagram that Harvey was now 'safe and well' and the reaction was nothing to worry about, as she urged other to get the jab.Katie wrote: "Thank you for all your kind messages and best wishes for Harvey, he is home safe and well."After asking Harvey why he went to hospital, he said: "I wasn't feeling right".Katie added: "So guys Harvey is obviously home and is safe and on form today."She then laughed "What did you ask for at 4 o'clock this morning? You tell me.

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Myles Stephenson's dad beats Covid after 'nearly suffering heart attack' in hospital

Myles Stephenson's dad has won his Covid battle after the virus landed him in hospital.

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Coronavirus: U.S. wants to get ‘all k-8 schools’ open within next 100 days, says Dr. Fauci

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr.

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France begins distributing AstraZeneca COVID vaccine amid UK variant warning

Paris [France]: France began distributing the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday as epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet warned the coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 -- first identified in the UK - could be dominant in the country by March."Between January 7-8, [the B.1.1.7 Variant] accounted for 3.3 per cent of new contaminations; on January 27, it was 14 per cent according to preliminary results from the second flash study," Fontanet, who is also a member of the Scientific Council advising the French government on the pandemic, said in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche quoted by CNN."This progression confirms it is 50 to 60 per cent more transmissible than the 2020 virus.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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