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After hoarding, West bickers on sharing patents as virus kills in droves
May 13, 2021 10:56South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned of “vaccine apartheid” as millions of people in poor countries are dying of the coronavirus with no access to vaccines and wealthy countries are hogging shots.
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Support for new malaria vaccine may be lacking in rich world
May 13, 2021 10:47The first efforts to eradicate malaria began in the 1950s under the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (one that decided to leave sub-Saharan Africa out of the “global” campaign), making use of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine and spraying large areas with the insecticide DDT.
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Over a quarter of EU adults would refuse COVID-19 shot, survey says
May 13, 2021 10:02More than a quarter of adults in the European Union would be unlikely to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was offered to them, a new survey shows.
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UK economy shrinks 1.5% in first quarter amid Covid lockdowns
May 13, 2021 09:38The UK’s economy shrank by 1.5 percent between January and March as nationwide lockdown measures continued to weigh on activity, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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The myriad ways sewage surveillance is helping fight COVID around the world
May 13, 2021 04:50Wastewater tracking was used before the pandemic to monitor for polio and illicit drug use, but interest in the field and its applications has now ballooned
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Iran-Russia trade at $2.62bn in year to March: IRICA
May 13, 2021 01:45Iran’s customs office IRICA says Russia was responsible for a bulk of trade between Iran and members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in the year to March 20.
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US fiscal profligacy and the impending crisis
May 12, 2021 12:02It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Joe Biden administration’s fiscal irresponsibility arises from a cynical political calculation. It evidently proposes to employ the federal budget as a slush fund to distribute benefits to various political constituencies, gambling that the avalanche of new debt will not cause a financial crisis before the 2022 Congressional elections.
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India’s COVID-19 deaths break daily record to pass 250,000 mark
May 12, 2021 11:30India’s coronavirus deaths crossed a quarter million on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, overloading a fragile rural healthcare system.
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Coronavirus cases in Iran exceed 2.7 million
May 12, 2021 08:44TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The total number of people infected with the coronavirus in Iran has exceeded 2.7 million, the Health Ministry’s spokeswoman said.
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COVID-19 takes a dire global demographic toll
May 12, 2021 00:36Pandemic deaths, disruptions to fertility and restrictions on migration are causing major social and demographic transformations worldwide.