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US: People who were infected with SARS in 2003 and recovered are able to produce antibodies that can potentially neutralise all known COVID-19 variants of concern, scientists have found. The findings, published in The New England…
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UK: Two doses of Pfizer shot have greater initial efficacy against a new infection, but this declines faster compared with two doses of the Oxford jab. The efficacy of these two vaccines may be similar after 4-5 months, the study…
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INDIA: India had administered at least 571 million Covid vaccine doses by Thursday, August 19. Meanwhile, by 7pm on Thursday, 571,671,264 vaccine doses were given across the states and UTs. As many as 4,884,440 doses were administered…
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SINGAPORE: A British man was sentenced to six weeks’ jail in Singapore for not wearing a mask and harassing police, officials confirmed Thursday. The city-state, which has had comparatively mild COVID-19 outbreaks, has taken a…
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NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand reported a breakthrough on Thursday in tracing the source of a Covid-19 outbreak that plunged the nation into lockdown, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying it should help “stamp out” the virus.…
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US: With a new US school year beginning, US President Joe Biden warned Governors who oppose student mask requirements that they could face legal action for intimidating educators seeking to protect children against COVID-19. In…
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AFGHANISTAN: Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have shot and killed a relative of a Deutsche Welle journalist while hunting for him, the German public broadcaster said. The terrorists were conducting a house-to-house search for the…
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AFGHANISTAN: As the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday, a spokesperson for the group uploaded five videos to his official YouTube page. The videos, each between two and three minutes long, showed Taliban…
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This 2001 file photo shows Shannon Spann, wife of CIA officer Johnny Michael “Mike” Spann, follows her husband’s casket to the grave site, holding her 6-month old son Jake, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington. In November of…
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AFGHANISTAN: U.S. forces in Afghanistan are now racing to evacuate as many people from that country as possible before the end of the month, officials said Thursday, but it remains unclear how many will make it to safety before troops…
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