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Johannesburg: Johnson & Johnson has announced that new preliminary results from a South African study has shown that the homologous booster shot of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine (Ad26.COV2.S) demonstrated 85 per cent effectiveness against the virus-related hospitalisation in South Africa after Omicron became the dominant variant. The South African Phase 3b Sisonke study, conducted by […]
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More than 7,630 of the laboratory-confirmed Omicron cases in Germany were recorded in the 15-34 years' age group, and around 5,590 cases were identified in the 35-59 years' age group, according to the RKI on Thursday.
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A previous record had been set on Wednesday with 98,030 cases. However, Thursday's increase was the largest in one day during the two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, Xinhua news agency reported.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 54,286,545 and 824,277, according to the CSSE.
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In a tweet, Jayapal said: "Elon Musk made $36 billion in one day, but wants to brag about paying an $11 billion tax bill. Oh yeah, he also added more than $270 billion in wealth just since the pandemic started.
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Hyderabad: Globally, Omicron cases are seeing an upsurge. As we learn more about the highly transmissible variant, the information through different studies project different results making risk of the virus more and more confusing. Here is what a doctor, Afshine Emrani MD FACC from USA said, 1. Omicron is nothing more than a seasonal cold […]
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Kabul: The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan said that the country does not have equipment to detect Omicron, adding that it has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide testing machines for the new fast-spreading Covid-19 variant. Both Pakistan and Iran, the two countries that share borders with Afghanistan, have confirmed cases of the new […]
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San Francisco: Popular short video-sharing platform Tiktok has topped the chart of downloads on Christmas Day this year. According to mobile data and analytics company App Annie, the number of downloads on December 25 globally was estimated across both iOS and Google Play Stores. TikTok led the chart of Christmas Day downloads ahead of Instagram, […]
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Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned that the more transmissible Omicron together with the currently circulating Delta variants might lead to “a tsunami of cases,” putting immense pressure on national health systems. Recapping WHO’s response since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said at a […]
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Jeddah: The Gulf countries are witnessing a surge in daily coronavirus cases and gradually reintroducing social distancing norms. The GCC states also made it mandatory for all the people to have a third dose or booster shot. The regional hub, UAE, reported the highest number of daily coronavirus cases with 2,234 cases on Wednesday. The […]
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London: One of the epicentres of the Omicron variant — has seen a drop of about 40 per cent in new cases of Covid infection, suggesting that the new variant could be less severe than Delta. The seven day rolling average for new infections plummeted by 35 per cent from an all-time high of 23,000 […]
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Geneva: The overall risk associated with the Omicron variant remains ‘very high’ which could cause widespread disruption to health systems and other critical services, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. In its weekly epidemiological update, the WHO said on Tuesday that “The overall risk related to the new variant of concern Omicron remains very […]
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Shanghai: With two new metro lines set to go into operation on Thursday, the total length of Shanghai’s metro network will extend to 831 km, continuing to be the longest in the world, according to authorities. The opening of the two new lines will bring the total number of fully automatic metro lines in Shanghai […]
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Washington: Amid the global surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, almost 3,000 flights have been cancelled and more than 11,500 flights have been delayed worldwide on Tuesday. A total of 2,969 flight cancellations and 11,512 flight delays worldwide on Tuesday, with 1,172 of the cancellations and 5,458 of the delays occurring within, into, or […]
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Washington: Over 7.5 million children have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic in the US, representing 1 in 10 American children, according to the latest report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association. A total of 7,565,416 child Covid-19 cases had been reported across the country […]
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Khartoum: At least 38 people have been killed after a gold mine collapsed in West Kordofan state in southern Sudan, a government company announced in a statement. “The General Manager of the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company Limited mourns the death of 38 miners who died as a result of the collapse of Umm Draisaya mine,” […]
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Johannesburg: Omicron cases are rapidly expanding worldwide, often coupled with infections caused by the Delta variant. A new study led by an international team of researchers from South Africa, the US and Germany has now shown that the vaccine evading Omicron enhances neutralising immunity of the Delta variant. The study, posted on pre-print server and […]
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Seoul: About 78 per cent of salaried workers in South Korea support the 52-hour workweek that was introduced in 2018 to reduce long working hours, a Labour Ministry survey revealed on Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,300 people, 71 per cent said the reduction of the maximum weekly working hours to 52 from 68 […]
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Seoul: The annual salary of South Korean President Moon Jae-in for 2022 was set at 240.6 million won ($202,815) as the Cabinet approved the personnel and management ministry’s pay raise plan for public servants on Tuesday. According to the plan, public servants will get a 1.4 per cent raise for their salary for 2022. Prime […]
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London: A video has surfaced on social media in which a fully masked man, identifying himself as an Indian Sikh, is seen declaring to “assassinate” Queen Elizabeth II to avenge the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, prompting Scotland yard to launch a probe, days after an intruder was arrested at the monarch’s Windsor Castle. The video, […]
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Hyderabad: There is great beauty in the skies. From our nearest neighbours to the most distant galaxies, the cosmos is a wonder to behold. Astronomers rarely use their telescopes to simply take pictures. The pictures in astrophysics are usually generated by a process of scientific inference and imagination. These five images are produced by publicly-funded […]
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According to the New York State Health Department, the increase was observed in children 18 and under beginning the week of December 5 through the current week, ABC News reported.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 52,259,716 and 816,597, according to the CSSE.
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More than 35,000 people have been forced from their homes, according to Bahia's civil defence and protection agency, reported CNN.
