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Origin of coronavirus yet to be certained: WHO
Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 12:52pm on February 13, 2021
The head of the World Health Organisation said on Friday that all hypotheses on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic remained on the table following the WHO’s investigation in China...
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COVID-19 pandemic not to end without equal distribution of jabs
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 11:32am on February 13, 2021
Developing new COVID-19 vaccines will fail to end the pandemic unless all countries receive doses in a fast and fair manner, disease experts warned on Saturday...
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Oxford to run trial of COVID-19 vaccines by other companies
Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 11:05am on February 04, 2021
Oxford University announced on Thursday it will launch a medical trial alternating doses of COVID-19 vaccines created by different manufacturers, the first study of its kind...
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Deaths caused by cancer may rise as COVID-19 impact: WHO
United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 01:23pm on February 03, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a ‘profound’ impact on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer around the world, the World Health Organisation has said...
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Pfizer to provide 40m Covax to poor countries without profit
Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 10:40am on January 23, 2021
Pfizer announced on Friday that it will provide up to 40 million of its COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries on a non-profit basis, through the globally-pooled Covax facility...
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Authorities say severe reaction to Moderna vaccine very unlikely
Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:31am on January 23, 2021
Severe allergic reaction to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is ‘rare,’ United States health authorities said on Friday, with only 10 cases arising from more than four million first doses...
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WHO says fabric masks work against new coronavirus variants
Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 11:27am on January 23, 2021
The World Health Organisation said on Friday that it had no plans to change its guidance recommending fabric facemasks as new coronavirus variants spread, because the mutated strains are transmitted in the same way...
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More time needed to be certain about origin of COVID-19: WHO
Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 10:56am on January 23, 2021
The World Health Organisation said on Friday it was too early to draw any conclusions from its mission to Wuhan as to whether the COVID-19 pandemic started in China...