Coronavirus Updates
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Uganda’s President Museveni tests positive for COVID
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has tested positive for COVID-19, is in good health and will continue his duties, while getting treatment, a senior health ministry official said late on Wednesday.…
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UK to offer COVID-19 vaccines for young children with medical conditions
Children aged between six months to four years with underlying medical conditions will be offered COVID-19 shots, Britain’s vaccine advisers said on Thursday. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and I…
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Bank of England raises interest rates again, sees inflation falling
The Bank of England raised interest rates by a further quarter of a percentage point on Thursday and said it expects the surge in British inflation to cool faster than before, despite a surprise jump…
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Biden orders release of intelligence regarding COVID-19 origins
President Joe Biden has signed new law requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. …
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Merck’s COVID pill tragically fails to prevent in-house infections
Merck & Co Inc said on Tuesday its COVID-19 pill was ineffective in reducing the risk of infection in people exposed to an infected individual in the same household. The pill, Lagevrio, also known as…
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Ghana ought to parley making Covid vaccines obligatory– Okoe Boye
The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, has called for a national conversation on making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory. Dr. Okoe Boye believes havi…
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President Biden’s admin will end COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11
President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday said it will end COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11, nearly three years after the United States imposed sweeping pandemic measures to curb the sp…
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China says COVID situation at ‘low level’ after holiday
China said on Monday that the COVID-19 situation in the country was at a “low level”, and that fever clinic visits due to the coronavirus during the Lunar New Year dropped about 40% from before the w…
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U.S. CDC claims recently updated COVID vaccines completely shield against new variants
The updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE and Moderna helped prevent symptomatic infections against the new XBB-related subvariants, offering new evidence of how the vaccines perform …
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Auditor-General reveals Ghana yet to receive $81m worth of COVID vaccines paid for
The Auditor-General has reported that $80m worth of vaccines paid for by government has not been delivered. According to the A-G, government paid over $120m to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UN…