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21.05.2021 / 21:51

Coronavirus vaccines respond to all known virus variants, experts say

coronavirus variants, experts have said. Health officials have identified a number of variants of concern, including ones first found in India, South Africa, Brazil, India and in the south east of the UK.

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Structural details of how SARS-CoV-2 variants escape immune response revealed

variants of the Covid-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, carry mutations that enable the virus to escape some of the immune response created naturally or by vaccination.

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Matt Hancock announces trial of covid booster-jab to fight winter variants in world-first

Covid-19 and its variants. Seven existing vaccines are to be tested in the Cov-Boost trial to see which jabs could be used in any forthcoming autumn vaccination programme.

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China says it will support India, SA proposal for global IPR waiver for COVID-19 vaccines

BEIJING : China, which is actively pursuing vaccine diplomacy, said on Monday that it is "supportive" of India and South Africa’s proposal for a temporary waiver of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) for coronavirus vaccines, asserting that Beijing will back all actions that are conducive to the developing countries' fight against the pandemic.India and South Africa called for TRIPS waiver of certain intellectual property provisions of COVID-19 vaccines in a communication to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in October last year so that people in developing countries get access to life-saving vaccines and therapeutics as soon as possible.Since then, the proposal started gathering support even in the US and the

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South Africa's ex-president says he is ready for graft trial

JOHANNESBURG – Former South African president Jacob Zuma says he is ready for his trial on charges of corruption, racketeering, and money laundering.

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Andrea Meza, of Mexico, crowned 69th Miss Universe

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Andrea Meza, of Mexico, has been crowned Miss Universe.

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Portugal to begin reopening to EU tourists from Monday

Portugal is to resume admitting tourists from most European countries on Monday, the interior ministry said, following months of restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

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Brazil ignored Pfizer’s offers of COVID-19 vaccine for months last year, company says

Pfizer repeatedly offered to sell its COVID-19 vaccine to Brazil’s Health Ministry between August and November last year, but got no answer from the government, Pfizer’s chief executive for Latin America told lawmakers on Thursday.A Senate commission is investigating whether President Jair Bolsonaro’s government mishandled the pandemic by failing to secure vaccines in time to curb a surge that has killed more than 430,000 Brazilians — the worst COVID-19 death toll outside the United States. Brazil detects 1st case of South Africa COVID-19 variant as deaths skyrocket Pfizer executive Carlos Murillo said that on Sept.

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Indian, South African coronavirus variants found in Americas, WHO expert says

coronavirus variants have been detected in virtually all countries and territories of the Americas, but although they are more transmissible there is no evidence they are more lethal, a World Health Organization expert said on Thursday.The vaccines that are being administered in the region do provide more protection against the variants, Jairo Mendez, a WHO infectious diseases expert said in a webinar by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)."What we still do not know is whether fully vaccinated people who do not become ill can still spread the virus to others.

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When will COVID-19 vaccines be widely available globally?

WASHINGTON – When will COVID-19 vaccines be widely available globally?

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Still too fast: Caster Semenya arrested for speeding

CAPE TOWN – Olympic champion Caster Semenya was sentenced to 50 hours of community service for speeding while driving in South Africa, prosecutors said Wednesday.

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12.05.2021 / 13:55

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Two year groups isolating from Bolton primary school amid Covid

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Scientists race to study variants in India as cases explode

NEW DELHI – A potentially worrisome variant of the coronavirus detected in India may spread more easily. But the country is behind in doing the kind of testing needed to track it and understand it better.

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South Africa's president suspends party secretary-general

JOHANNESBURG – South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has intensified the country’s anti-corruption drive with the suspension of his African National Congress party’s secretary-general, who is facing corruption charges in court.

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The covid-19 variant in India: What scientists know about the B.1.617 strain

What is the new coronavirus variant that was first discovered in India?The variant, identified in October, is a mutant form of the virus that causes Covid-19. It has 13 mutations, including two notable ones in the spike protein that the virus uses to attach to and infect cells.One of the mutations, dubbed E484Q, is similar to one that is common to the variants identified in South Africa and Brazil.

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WHO strongly supports TRIPS waiver for Covid-19 vaccines: Chief Scientist

World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Monday (local time) said that the global health body strongly believes that Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) waiver to COVID-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) should be done.In an exclusive interview with ANI, Swaminathan said: "WHO strongly believes that the TRIPS waiver that has been proposed by India and South Africa should be done. DG Tedros has often spoken about this.

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WHO says virus strain in India a 'variant of concern'

The World Health Organziation said that the coronavirus variant first identified in India last year was being classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily.

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10.05.2021 / 22:47

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'We don't want another lockdown' - Bolton schools urge parents to follow rules as Covid cases hit

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Greater Manchester's latest coronavirus infection rates - as cases rise in five boroughs

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As India's Covid cases surge, Bangladesh lacks jabs, faces virus variants

DHAKA : India's surge in coronavirus cases is having a serious effect on neighbouring Bangladesh, with health experts warning of imminent vaccine shortages just as the country should be stepping up jabs and as more contagious virus variants are beginning to be detected.On Saturday, health authorities said that for the first time, a coronavirus variant originally identified in India was found in Bangladesh, without providing further details. For weeks, South African variants have dominated the samples sequenced in Bangladesh.

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South Africa detects 4 cases of COVID variant found in India

JOHANNESBURG : South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has said that four cases of the Indian variant of coronavirus have been detected in the country, but there was no cause for panic as all such cases were quarantined."The four cases of AfricaB.1.617.2 (Indian variant of coronavirus) have been detected in Gauteng (2) and KwaZulu-Natal (2) and all have a history of recent arrival from India.

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08.05.2021 / 20:29

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Greater Manchester's latest coronavirus infection rates - as Bolton goes over 100 amid surge testing for mutant variants

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Leaders' meet: PM Modi asks EU to support India, South Africa on patent waiver for Covid vaccines

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Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine effective against worrisome coronavirus variants, studies find

the vaccine appeared to be less effective against B.1.351, a variant first identified in South Africa.One of the new studies, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was about 90% effective at preventing any infections caused by B.1.1.7 variant, which is now widely circulating around the globe. The study also found that while it was somewhat less effective against the B.1.351 variant, it still was 75% effective at preventing infection among those who had received two doses. One of the study’s authors, Laith Abu-Raddad, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, told the New York Times that even with slightly reduced effectiveness against the South African

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India seeks Australia’s support for temporary waiver of patent protections for Covid jabs

New Delhi: India on Friday sought Australia’s support for a proposal for a temporary waiver of patent protections for covid-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organisation, a move that would boost supplies of the life-saving inoculations to poorer nations.India put forth its views during a telephone conversation between prime minister Narendra Modi and his Australian prime minister Scott Morrison.

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Surge testing rolled out in Bolton after rapid rise in Covid-19 infection rates

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Three vaccines show promise against COVID variants

Data from three trials posted yesterday show efficacy of the Novavax and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines and good immune response of the Moderna vaccine against different SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.

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World mulls next step after U.S. supports waiving COVID-19 vaccine patents

COVID-9 vaccines that many hope will help poorer countries get more doses and speed the end of the pandemic.The move to support waiving intellectual property protections on vaccines under World Trade Organization rules marked a dramatic shift for the United States, which had previously lined up with many other developed nations opposed to the idea floated by India and South Africa.Attention is set to turn to those richer nations, notably in the European Union, to see whether they will come on board. A key hurdle: Any decision at the WTO, a Geneva-based trade body, has to be by consensus — meaning that any single country could hold up any waiver.

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World mulls next step as US backs IP waiver on vaccines

GENEVA – Activists cheered, Big Pharma complained and government leaders assessed next steps on Thursday after the Biden administration’s blockbuster move to support an easing of patent and other protections on COVID-19 vaccines that many hope will help poorer countries get more doses and speed the end of the pandemic.

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US pharma body disappointed over support for Covid-19 vaccine patent waiver

Biden administration to support India and South Africa's proposal before the WTO to temporarily waive anti-Covid vaccine patents to boost its supply.PhRMA which represents America’s leading innovative biopharmaceutical research companies has said that the "decision will sow confusion between public and private partners, further weaken already strained supply chains and foster the proliferation of counterfeit vaccines."PhRMA companies are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier and more productive lives.

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India appreciates Biden admin's decision to back TRIPS waiver for Covid vaccines

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Moderna vaccine booster appears to neutralize South Africa, Brazil COVID-19 variants

LOS ANGELES - Moderna announced on Wednesday that data from an ongoing trial of its COVID-19 vaccine booster found it was effective against variants of the virus, including the B.1.351 variants first identified in South Africa and the P.1 variants first identified in Brazil.Moderna says a single dose of its vaccine given as a booster to previously fully vaccinated individuals "increased neutralizing antibody" responses against both variants. The data is from an ongoing trial analyzing various strategies for vaccine boosters that would be used to neutralize virus titers or concentrations of the coronavirus that can still infect cells. Participants in the study were given the vaccine boosters approximately 6 to 8 months after their initial

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US backs waiving intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines

WASHINGTON - The United States will support efforts to waive intellectual property protections on COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to held end the pandemic, Trade Ambassador Katherine Tai announced Wednesday.Tai said in a statement that "the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures." India and South Africa have appealed to the World Trade Organization to temporarily relax intellectual property rules so coronavirus vaccines can be manufactured by nations that are struggling to inoculate their populations.

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'This whole thing isn't finished': Indian and South African variants identified in Bolton as Covid-19 rates rise rapidly

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WTO mulling intellectual property waivers for vaccines

GENEVA – Ambassadors from World Trade Organization countries on Wednesday resumed discussions on trade rules protecting the technological know-how behind COVID-19 vaccines amid growing pressure on rich nations to relax them — as a way to help poorer countries fight the pandemic.

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Indian G7 delegation self-isolating over Covid cases

India's entire delegation to a G7 foreign ministers' meeting in London is self isolating after two members tested positive for Covid-19, a British government official has said.

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Study suggests single vaccine dose can boost protection in previously infected Covid patients

New Delhi: A single dose of COVID-19 vaccine boosts protection against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variants, but only in those previously infected with the disease, according to a study.The researchers looked at the UK and South Africa variants, however, they think it is possible that the findings will apply to other variants in circulation, such as the Brazil (P.1) and India (B.1.617 and B.1.618) variants.The findings, published in the journal Science, show that in those who have not previously been infected and have so far only received one dose of vaccine, the immune response to coronavirus variants of concern may be insufficient.The researchers at Imperial College London, Queen Mary University of London and University College London, looked

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Surge Covid testing deployed to new part of London after South Africa variant found

Surge Covid testing has been deployed to another part of the UK after the worrying South African variant was detected.

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Detection of Covid-19 variants sparks fear in Pakistan

Karachi [Pakistan]: The detection of both South African and Brazilian variants in Pakistan's Karachi has raised fears of putting a further strain on its already overwhelmed health system, according to the health minister of Sindh province.Dr Azra Pechuhu, the health minister of the southern Sindh province, said in a video message on Friday that at least 10 British, two South African, and one Brazilian virus variants have been detected in the country's commercial capital Karachi, reported Anadolu Agency."The Brazilian and South African strains of the virus have a higher mortality rate, and the efficacy of the vaccine is not that significant against them," Pechuhu said.The minister added that those infected by these virus strains could fall

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Israel bans travel to India, six other countries with high Covid-19 infections

travelling to India and six other countries, citing high Covid infection rates there.In a joint press release issued by the Israel Prime Minister’s Office and the Health Ministry on Friday, it was said that Israelis will not be allowed to travel to Ukraine, Brazil, Ethiopia, South Africa, India, Mexico and Turkey.This regulation will come into force on May 3 and will remain in place until May 16.Non-Israelis, however, will be able to travel to these countries, provided they plan to reside there permanently, the press release said.The regulation will not be applicable to those who stay at airports in transit in one of these countries for a time period of up to 12 hours while waiting for a connecting flight.The Israeli government has also

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COVID-19 mutations that could ‘evade immune response’ flagged by Indian scientists

Indian government has told authorities about minor mutations in some samples of the coronavirus that could “possibly evade immune response” and require more study, a leader of the forum has told Reuters.However the advisers said while they were flagging the mutations, there was no reason currently to believe they were expanding or could be dangerous.Scientists are studying what led to the current surge in cases in India and particularly whether a variant first detected in the country, called B.1.617, is to blame. The World Health Organization has not declared the Indian variant a “variant of concern,” as it has done for variants first detected in Britain, Brazil and South Africa.

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Risk from COVID-19 variants remains after first Pfizer shot: study

coronavirus vaccine may not generate a sufficient immune response to protect against dominant new variants, except in people who have already been infected with COVID-19, a UK study has found.

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Ramaphosa denies wrong in raising election campaign funds

JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has claimed there was “nothing sinister” about the funding for his 2017 political campaign to become president of the ruling party, the African National Congress.

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South Africa's Ramaphosa says corruption has damaged country

JOHANNESBURG – Rampant corruption has seriously damaged South Africa's economy and people's trust in the government, President Cyril Ramaphosa testified Wednesday at a judicial inquiry into graft in the county.

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Prince Harry and Meghan to lead 'Vax Live' world fundraising concert

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - OCTOBER 02: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend a Creative Industries and Business Reception on October 02, 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Vice President Harris tells UN it's time now to prepare for next pandemic

WASHINGTON - Vice President Kamala Harris told United Nations members on Monday that now is the time for global leaders to begin putting the serious work into how they will respond to the next global pandemic.The virtual address, Harris' second to a U.N. body since her inauguration, comes as the United States makes progress on vaccinating the public and much of the world struggles to acquire vaccines."At the same time that the world works to get through this pandemic, we also know that we must prepare for the next," Harris said.

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Harris to tell UN body it's time to prep for next pandemic

WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris will make the case before United Nations members on Monday that now is the time for global leaders to begin putting the serious work into how they will respond to the next global pandemic.

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Harris to tell UN body it's time to prep for next pandemic

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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