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The study, published in the Nature Immunology journal on Friday, used data collected from unvaccinated patients at St Vincent's hospital who were infected with the Alpha variant.
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Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, Global temperatures in 2021 were 0.85 degrees Celsius above the average for NASA's baseline period
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Addis Ababa: After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic driven primarily by the Omicron variant, is flattening, marking the shortest-lived surge to date in the continent where cumulative cases have now exceeded 10 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Weekly cases having plateaued in the week ending on January 9, […]
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New Delhi: Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth warmest year on record, and the past eight years are the warmest, according to an independent analysis done by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, Global temperatures in 2021 were 0.85 […]
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Seoul: North Korea on Friday warned that it will have to take “stronger and certain reaction” after the US imposed new sanctions over Pyongyang’s recent missile launches. In a statement carried by Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a spokesperson for the North’s Foreign Ministry said the recent launch of what it claims to […]
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Kabul: The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that the rights of Afghan women and girls are “under attack” and that they need the world body’s support and solidarity now more than ever. In a statement on Thursday, the OCHA said that girls and women in the war-torn nation are deprived […]
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Washington: Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 319.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.52 million and vaccinations to over 9.55 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Friday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that […]
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Hyderabad: Italians, who are not vaccinated yet, are paying an amount to have a dine with a Covid positive people to get infect with the coronavirus. As the Italy government has passed a mandate for the people above 50 to be vaccinated by February 1, otherwise they will end up paying heavy fines or to […]
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Portland: A painting by the American modernist Marsden Hartley that had been missing for 40 years was found in a bank vault, a significant step toward recovering the works of an increasingly appreciated artist who considered himself ‘the painter of Maine’. The painting, Friend Against the Wind, was completed in 1936 and had its last […]
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Hyderabad: As the world enters the third year of the Covid pandemic, the climate crisis remains the biggest long-term threat facing humanity, according to the 2022 Global Risks Report. Read more about the report in detail… Respondents to the 2022 World Economic Forum Global Risks Perception Survey ranked ‘Climate action failure’ as the number one […]
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New Delhi: Singapore Immigration Department has raised concerns with the Indian Airlines that they are violating the protocol made for COVID-19 and sending its crew members for international flights without completing 14 days of mandatory home isolation. “Recently the Immigration Authority of Singapore raised concerns to India that Indian airlines have violated the COVID-19 isolation […]
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Washington: The highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant has driven up the latest wave of the health crisis in the US and added stress to the US airlines, some of which otherwise may have upside earnings, according to a recent Reuters report. “A multifold increase in daily sick calls as well as a series of winter […]
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Washington: A new ensemble forecast from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicted that more than 62,000 more people could die from Covid-19 over the next four weeks. The number of newly reported Covid-19 deaths will likely increase over the next four weeks, with 10,400 to 31,000 new deaths likely reported in […]
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US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Netflix cannot be sued over recommending the show to viewers.
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The superior maneuverability of the hypersonic glide vehicle was more strikingly verified through the final test-fire," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
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Washington: The global economy is on track to grow by 4.1 per cent in 2022, down 0.2 percentage point from a previous projection, the World Bank Group said in its latest Global Economic Prospects release. “The global recovery is set to decelerate markedly amid continued Covid-19 flare-ups, diminished policy support, and lingering supply bottlenecks,” the […]
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Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that current Covid-19 vaccines may need to be updated if they are to provide continued protection against emerging variants, including Omicron. WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Covid-19 Vaccine Composition (TAG-CO-VAC), a group of 18 experts, on Tuesday said that although current vaccines provide a high level of […]
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Seoul: A growing number of crosswalk traffic signals have been installed across Seoul as a way to enhance the safety of pedestrians glued to their smartphones, according to the South Korean capital’s ward offices on Tuesday. Nearly 1,200 in-ground crosswalk traffic signal systems were in operation across the city’s total 25 boroughs as of Tuesday, […]
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New York: In a rare medical feat, the US doctors have successfully transplanted a genetically-modified pig heart to a 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease. The patient, David Bennett, a Maryland resident, who had been hospitalised and bedridden for the past few months, is doing well three days after a first-of-its-kind surgery, said doctors at […]
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Washington: United States on Monday recorded 141,385 COVID-19 cases in hospitals with medical staff struggled to treat the infected patients amid an unprecedented surge of the coronavirus. This number fell just short of the record of 142,273 cases which was reported on January 14, 2021, when the pandemic was at its peak in the country, […]
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San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has said that employees who have received Covid booster jabs will only be allowed to enter office premises when it finally reopens. Meta has already said that employees in the US would have to be fully vaccinated against Covid when they return to the office, likely from March 28 which […]
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Madrid: Spain has passed the benchmark of 90,000 Covid-19 deaths, according to the latest data published by the country’s Ministry of Health. The ministry confirmed 202 deaths between Friday and Monday, raising the total number of deaths to 90,136 in the country since the start of the pandemic, Xinhua news agency reported. Over the 72-hour […]
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Kampala: Uganda’s schools reopened to students on Monday, ending the world’s longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reopening caused traffic congestion in some areas of the capital, Kampala, and students can be seen carrying their mattresses in the streets, a back-to-boarding school phenomenon not witnessed here for nearly two years. Uganda’s schools […]
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Judge Anthony Kelly of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia quashed the cancellation of Djokovic's visa and confirmed the twenty-time Grand Slam winner Serbian will be permitted to stay in Australia.
