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South Africa's economy shrinks after riots, COVID-19 measures
Dec 07, 2021 13:24South Africa's economy shrank for the first time in a year in the third quarter as the country was hit by riots and tighter COVID restrictions, official statistics showed Tuesday.
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Africa facing challenge to take in late-arriving COVID-19 vaccines: Report
Dec 07, 2021 13:18With millions of COVID-19 vaccines expected to finally arrive in Africa in the coming weeks, experts say inoculation campaigns in some African countries face serious challenges amid shortages of funds, medical staff and equipment.
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Fauci says US reevaluating travel ban on African countries
Dec 06, 2021 09:06Top US infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci has said the United States will “hopefully” be able to lift its travel ban on African countries “in a quite reasonable period of time,” which the United Nations has denounced as “travel apartheid.”
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Does the Omicron variant mean COVID is going to become more transmissible?
Dec 05, 2021 07:00In the case of coronavirus, there is also an obvious hole in the argument: transmission normally occurs before symptoms start or during the earliest stage of symptoms, meaning that severity of illness has little influence on the spread of the virus.
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The new variant is worrying – but it doesn’t change how we tackle COVID
Dec 02, 2021 06:37The only way to stop B.1.1.529 and other coronavirus mutations is through testing, masks, and getting vaccines to everyone in the world
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EU chief mulls mandatory COVID jabs as Omicron fears deepen
Dec 01, 2021 14:10Europe's top official said Wednesday it was time to "think about mandatory vaccination" as the fast-spreading Omicron variant darkened forecasts and deepened fears of another difficult winter.
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‘Not Covid-related at all!’ Delta Airlines flight from South Africa diverted from Atlanta to Boston
Nov 29, 2021 04:57A Delta Airline flight from South Africa has been diverted from Atlanta to Boston with the American authorities asserting that the decision had nothing to do with the new Covid-19 variant omicron.
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Cause of the pathetic plight of children worldwide
Nov 25, 2021 15:30Unfortunately, the modern world of science and technology which has drifted away from spiritual values, has become totally devoid of humanitarian tendencies, and begun to view children as objects of the carnal and commercial desires of the unprincipled adults.
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At least five killed in al-Shabab car bombing in Somalia's capital
Nov 25, 2021 08:09At least five people have been killed and several others wounded in a car bombing near a school in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, witnesses and officials have said.
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At least 30 civilians killed by militiamen in Congo, mostly IDPs
Nov 23, 2021 08:38About 30 civilians have been killed by militiamen in the Democratic Republic of Congo between November 21 and 22 in attacks on villages and a site hosting internally displaced people.