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China rolls out 'world's first' single-shot Covid-19 vaccine: Report

Beijing: China has given conditional approval for a single dose COVID-19 vaccine, touted to be a rival to Johnson & Johnson’s one-jab shot cleared by the US drug regulator on Sunday.China's first Ad5-nCoV COVID-19 vaccine was rolled out on Friday, the state-run Global Times reported on Sunday.Phase-I clinical trials of the vaccine started on March 16, last year, making it the world's first COVID-19 candidate vaccine that entered clinical trials, it said.It is the only single-dose COVID-19 vaccine that has been given conditional approval to be rolled out in China, the report quoted last Friday’s story by the state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).People can get desirable protective effect after 14 days of inoculation.The

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US approves J&J's single dose Covid-19 vaccine

The US government has authorised Johnson & Johnson's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine, enabling millions more Americans to be vaccinated in the coming weeks and setting the vaccine up for additional approvals around the world.

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Auckland to begin seven-day lockdown as Covid case confirmed

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said Auckland will enter a seven-day lockdown after a new case of Covid-19 was confirmed.

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Biden in legislative win with $1.9 trillion Covid plan

US President Joe Biden has scored his first legislative win as the House of Representatives passed his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, though Democrats faced challenges to their hopes of using the bill to raise the minimum wage.

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How WHO transforms funding into action in regions around the world

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, WHO remains active on many fronts–from delivering equipment and issuing guidelines, to fighting misinformation and protecting vulnerable populations, and more. Here are some ongoing activities WHO was able to carry out in recent weeks thanks to the vital backing of its many donors:

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Long-term Covid should be 'clear priority' for authorities - WHO

A senior World Health Organization official has urged national authorities to make a priority of understanding the long-term consequences of coronavirus infections as some people show worrying symptoms months later.

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'More great news': Pfizer covid vaccine found 94% effective in real world

COVID-19 vaccines has come under controlled conditions in clinical trials, leaving an element of uncertainty over how results would translate into the real world with its unpredictable variables.The research in Israel - two months into one of the world's fastest rollouts, providing a rich source of data - showed two doses of the Pfizer shot cut symptomatic COVID-19 cases by 94% across all age groups, and severe illnesses by nearly as much.The study of about 1.2 million people also showed a single shot was 57% effective in protecting against symptomatic infections after two weeks, according to the data published and peer-reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.The results of the study for the Clalit Research Institute

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Pfizer's COVID-19 shot is 92% effective at reducing severe illness, 'real world' mass vaccination study finds

FILE - An Israeli health worker of the Maccabi Healthcare Services prepares to administer a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine on Feb. 24, 2021 in Tel Aviv.

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Real-world trial of Pfizer COVID vaccine finds high 2-dose, good 1-dose protection

A large observational, real-world study from Israel estimates that the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is 46% effective at preventing infection 14 to 20 days after the first dose and 92% 7 days after the second dose, backing the results of an earlier randomized, controlled trial, according to a study today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

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Johnson & Johnson vaccine 'highly effective' against severe Covid

The single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine is highly effective in preventing severe Covid-19, including newer variants, according to documents released by the US Food and Drug Administration.

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Ghana is first nation in world to receive COVAX vaccines

ACCRA – Ghana has become the first country in the world to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India.

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First Covid-19 vaccine doses dispatched by COVAX arrive in Ghana

The World Health Organization's global vaccine sharing scheme COVAX has delivered its first Covid-19 shots, as the race to get doses to the world's poorest people accelerates.

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COVID-19: Calgary company builds ICUs, vaccination pods to ship around the world

Pivoting during the pandemic is a matter of survival for so many Canadian companies. And as Gil Tucker reports, for one Calgary business, the pivot is helping people around the world survive COVID-19.

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Biden calls US Covid-19 toll 'heartbreaking' as deaths pass 500,000

An emotional US President Joe Biden called the milestone of more than 500,000 US deaths from Covid-19 "heartbreaking" and urged the country to unite against the pandemic.

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No-fault compensation programme for COVID-19 vaccines is a world first

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Chubb Limited (NYSE: CB), through ESIS Inc., a Chubb company, signed an agreement on behalf of the COVAX Facility on 17 February 2021 for the administration of a no-fault compensation programme for the 92 low- and middle-income countries and economies eligible for support via the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC) of the COVAX Facility. As the first and only vaccine injury compensation mechanism

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People hiding under mattress at Madrid party arrested for Covid breaches

Partygoers hid under mattresses and in a wardrobe at a packed house in Madrid on Saturday in an attempt to avoid police at one of 227 illegal parties raided in the city over the weekend for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions.

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Covid-19 restrictions to be eased in England next month

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to set out his government's roadmap for cautiously easing lockdown restrictions in England.

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US nears 500,000 Covid-19 deaths

US President Joe Biden will join in a moment of silence and a candle-lighting ceremony for Americans who have died due to Covid-19 as nations globally press on with vaccinations, including with Australia giving its first shots.

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Britain greenlights world’s first trial exposing human volunteers to COVID-19

Britain became the first country in the world on Wednesday to give the go-ahead for human challenge trials in which volunteers will be deliberately exposed to COVID-19 to advance research into the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.The trial, due to start within a month, will see up to 90 healthy volunteers aged between 18 and 30 exposed to the smallest amount of the virus needed to cause infection, scientists behind the plans told reporters at a news briefing.Volunteers will be screened for possible health risks before being allowed to take part, and kept in quarantine for close monitoring by medical staff for at least 14 days in a specialist unit at London’s Royal Free Hospital.

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What Covid-19 vaccines are online or in development?

With several Covid-19 vaccines either being rolled out or under trial, here is a rundown of the various stages of their development.

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EC announce measures to deal with new variants of Covid-19

The European Commission has announced a series of measures to deal with new variants of Covid-19.

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Covid-19 lockdowns lifted in Melbourne and Auckland

Major cities in Australia and New Zealand lifted stay-at-home orders for millions of residents after successfully using snap lockdowns to quash outbreaks of virulent strains of Covid-19.

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WHO lists AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use, widening access to countries in need

World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday listed AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, widening access to the relatively inexpensive shot in the developing world. AstraZeneca to test coronavirus vaccine response in children for 1st time A WHO statement said it had approved the vaccine as produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio (Republic of Korea) and the Serum Institute of India.“We now have all the pieces in place for the rapid distribution of vaccines.

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World’s Longest Hockey Game wraps up east of Edmonton after 252 hours

World’s Longest Hockey Game, played east of Edmonton, has come to an end.The game, which raises money for cancer research, began on Feb. 4 with a goal of raising $1.5 million to support life-saving cancer research at the University of Alberta to benefit patients at the Cross Cancer Institute.

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Three-day lockdown in Auckland after new Covid-19 cases

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered the country's biggest city Auckland into a snap lockdown for the first time in nearly six months, after three coronavirus cases emerged in the community.

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Post covid world seen pluralistic; India to make difference: Jaishankar

NEW DELHI : Covid-19 has redefined concepts of security and globalization, Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar has said, adding the post pandemic world “will be more multi-polar, pluralistic and rebalanced" with India playing a role in making a difference.In an article in the latest edition of the Newsweek magazine, titled “Reimagining Diplomacy in the Post-COVID World: An Indian Perspective," Jaishankar said the world was conditioned to think of globalization in economic terms -- trade, finance, services, communication, technology and mobilityAlso Read | India speeds up vaccination drive“This expresses the interdependence and interpenetration of our era," the minister said but argued that “real globalization is more about pandemics,

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World’s largest COVID-19 drug trial identifies second compound that cuts risk of death

Kai KupferschmidtScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.The world’s largest trial of COVID-19 drugs has produced more good news: The anti-inflammatory drug tocilizumab cut the death risk of people hospitalized with the disease, reduced their need for a mechanical ventilator, and shortened time spent in the hospital, investigators of the United Kingdom’s Recovery trial announced today at a press conference. A preprint about the data has been published on medRxiv.“This is an incredibly significant result,” says Athimalaipet Ramanan, a rheumatologist at the University of Bristol who was not involved in the study but sits on the steering committee of a tocilizumab trial in India.

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Britain's covid variant a concern, 'likely to sweep the world', says scientist

coronavirus variant first found in the British region of Kent is a concern because it could undermine the protection given by vaccines against developing COVID-19, the head of the UK's genetic surveillance programme said.She also said the variant was dominant in the country and was likely "to sweep the world, in all probability".The coronavirus has killed 2.35 million people and turned normal life upside down for billions, but a few new worrying variants out of thousands have raised fears that vaccines will need to be tweaked and people may require booster shots.Sharon Peacock, director of the COVID-19 Genomics UK consortium, said vaccines were so far effective against the variants in the United Kingdom, but that mutations could potentially

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WHO says Europe still 'vulnerable' despite falling Covid-19 cases

The World Health Organization has warned of a "false sense of security" in Europe, saying most of the continent's nations were still vulnerable despite a fall in Covid-19 cases.

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Mutant Covid-19 variant from Kent 'will become dominant and sweep world' says expert

strain was first found in Kent before it "swept the country," and now it is likely to take over the world "in all probability," says Professor Sharon Peacock.Prof Peacock's comments were made while speaking on the BBC's Newscast podcast.It comes as the Kent variant has been detected in more than 50 countries since being reported in September 2020.The mutant strain was first reported in south-east England and was known to be faster-spreading than the original variant.Since its emergence, the UK has been placed into a third lockdown in a bid to prevent the rapid spread of coronavirus.Prof Peacock, director of the Covid-19 Genomics UK consortium, said: "What's really affected us at the moment is transmissibility."She added: "Once we get on

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Two masks, snug fit reduces Covid-19 spread - US study

Making sure a mask fits snugly on the face and use of two masks is likely to significantly reduce a person's exposure to the coronavirus, laboratory experiments described by US health officials showed.

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European Union Covid-19 death toll exceeds 500,000

More than 500,000 people have officially died of Covid-19 in the European Union, according to a tally compiled by AFP as of Wednesday, with the situation appearing to improve in the worst-hit countries.

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World's second-oldest person survives coronavirus at age 116

Sister Andre, the eldest French and European citizen, prays in a wheelchair, on the eve of her 117th birthday. She was born on February 11, 1904.

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Covid maths: All the virus in the world would fit in a coke can

LONDON : All the COVID-causing virus circulating in the world right now could easily fit inside a single cola can, according to a calculation by a British mathematician whose sum exposes just how much devastation is caused by miniscule viral particles.Using global rates of new infections with the pandemic disease, coupled with estimations of viral load, Bath University maths expert Kit Yates worked out there are around two quintillion - or two billion billion - SARS-CoV-2 virus particles in the world at any one time.Detailing the steps in his calculations, Yates said he used the diameter of SARS-CoV-2 - at an average of about 100 nanometers, or 100 billionths of a meter - and then figured out the volume of the spherical virus.Even

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From Afghanistan to South Sudan: how WHO and partners continue to fight COVID-19 around the world

As countries ramp up their COVID-19 vaccination campaigns and work to contain new variants of the virus, WHO is tirelessly working towards equitable access of the new vaccines and continues to provide support in many other ways to countries all over the world. Here are some recent activities WHO was able to carry out to thanks to the vital backing of its many donors.

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Does the world need new Covid vaccines? 'Jury is out', Oxford's Pollard says

LONDON : It is not yet clear whether the world needs a new set of vaccines to fight different variants of the novel coronavirus but scientists are working on new ones so there is no reason for alarm, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group said on Tuesday.South Africa has paused a planned rollout of AstraZeneca's vaccines after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild infection among young people from the dominant variant there, stoking fears of a much longer battle with the pathogen.AstraZeneca and Oxford University aim to produce a next generation of vaccines that will protect against variants as soon as the autumn before the Northern Hemisphere winter, AstraZeneca's research chief said this month."There are definitely new

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ECDC hampered by problems when Covid hit, report finds

The lead agency for monitoring and controlling the spread of infectious diseases in Europe was hampered by a catalogue of problems when the coronavirus pandemic struck, according to an investigation by the EU Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly.

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India achieves 60 lakh Covid vaccinations in 24 days, fastest in world

Covid-19 vaccine shots has crossed the 60 lakh mark in the country, the Union Health Ministry announced on Monday, highlighting that India reached the mark in 24 days, the fastest in the world.It also said that America took 26 days to reach this mark, whereas Britain achieved it in 46 days.As many as 60,35,660 beneficiaries were vaccinated through 1,24,744 sessions till today evening.

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India exporting Covid-19 shots to 14 countries, set to meet 70% of world's needs: Amit Shah

Amit Shah on Sunday, adding that two vaccines are currently being exported to 14 countries.Speaking at the inauguration of a private medical college, Shah said: "India is set to fulfil 70% of the world's coronavirus vaccine needs. Two vaccines are being exported to 14 countries."He stated that 55 lakh people in the country have been given Covid-19 vaccine in the last 21 days and the Centre is working to expedite vaccination process.

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Shortage of Covid-19 vaccines 'likely' to last several months - WHO

World Health Organization's Special Envoy on Covid-19 David Nabarro has said there is currently a shortage of Covid-19 vaccines and it will stay like that for several months.

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As the world fights the second COVID-19 wave, life in Wuhan returns to normal

In early 2020, the city of Wuhan, China was under an unprecedented lockdown because of the coronavirus outbreak, prompting Canada to send its first plane to bring Canadians home to safety.

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UK begins world-first alternate dosing covid-19 vaccine trial

LONDON : Health chiefs in the UK on Thursday began what they have described as a world-first clinical trial of patients who will receive different COVID-19 vaccines for their first or second dose, to detect its impact on immunity against coronavirus.The study, backed by 7 million pound of government funding, will determine the effects of using different vaccines for the first and second dose – for example, using Oxford University/AstraZeneca’s vaccine for the first dose, followed by Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine for the second.It is being run by the National Immunisation Schedule Evaluation Consortium (NISEC) across eight National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) supported sites and also gather immunological evidence on different intervals

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Researchers explore mixed vaccine shots as world faces over 4,000 Covid-19 variants

LONDON : The world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said on Thursday, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots.Thousands of variants have been documented as the virus mutates, including the so-called British, South African and Brazilian variants which appear to spread more swiftly than others.British Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi said it was very unlikely that the current vaccines would not work against the new variants."Its very unlikely that the current vaccine won't be effective on the variants whether in Kent or other variants especially when it comes to severe illness and hospitalisation," Zahawi told Sky

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What we know about the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine

First greeted with scepticism, experts have since been convinced of the effectiveness of the Russian coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V, with positive results published in The Lancet medical journal yesterday.

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Captain Tom Moore, World War II Veteran Famous for COVID-19 Fundraising, Dies at 100

His family announced Moore's death Tuesday in a tweet with his photo.Captain Tom, as he became known in newspaper headlines and TV interviews, set out to raise 1,000 pounds for Britain's National Health Service by walking 100 laps of his backyard. But his quest went viral and caught the imagination of millions stuck at home during the first wave of the pandemic.

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WHO Covid-19 investigation team visits Wuhan animal health facility

A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization have arrived at an animal health facility in China's central city of Wuhan in the search for clues about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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European nations tighten restrictions as Covid-19 cases rise

Countries across Europe were tightening restrictions as Covid-19 caseloads keep climbing.

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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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