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Angola: Minister Warns Against Fake Covid-19 Vaccines
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angolan Health minister Silvia Lutucuta, Monday warned the population to remain alert against fake Covid-19 vaccines in the country.
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Nursing union welcomes decision to temporarily halt AstraZeneca vaccine rollout | News24
The Democratic Nursing Organisation has welcomed the decision to place the rollout of the Astra/Zeneca on hold. This after trials show that it has limited efficacy against the new variant.
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#FalseFreedom: How Can We Celebrate Freedom When We're Not Truly Free?
This protest encourages all people of color who have personally experienced any form of police harassment or racial injustice to tell their
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Illinois COVID-19 vaccine roll out worse than most states | BlackDoctor.org
As of Friday, roughly 960,000 Illinois residence have received at least one shot of the COVID-19 Vaccine— and about 270,000 of them have received both shots. But the state’s pace has ranked in the bottom third of the country for residents vaccinated when adjusted for population
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Covid-19: SA records lowest number of daily infections since December | News24
South Africa has recorded the lowest number of daily Covid-19 infections since the beginning of December last year.
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Africa's First COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Have Begun In South Africa
A COVID-19 vaccine trial program began in South Africa last week — the first for the African continent — as the nation’s coronavirus case count topped
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Germany set to extend hard lockdown as daily deaths mount - Black News Channel
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany's disease control center on Tuesday reported 944 more COVID-19 deaths, fueling expectations that Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country's 16 state governors will extend the country's lockdown until the end of the month. Germany's latest
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UK's Johnson warns of more lockdown measures as virus soars - Black News Channel
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Sunday that more onerous lockdown restrictions in England are likely in the coming weeks as the country reels from a new coronavirus variant that has pushed infection rates to their highest recorded
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Fort Bend County receives vaccine shipment, as regional demand outpaces supply - DefenderNetwork.com
Fort Bend County has received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine and has started vaccinating front line health care workers, and some of those most at risk for COVID-19. Right now, 5,000 qualified people are registered in the county’s system to receive vaccines when more become
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India Prepares to Vaccinate 10M Health Care Workers | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Mumbai - Ten million health care workers in India will be the first to get the Covid-19 vaccine whenever it becomes available. As in other countries, the first vaccine doses will be given to frontline workers, including doctors, nurses, paramedics, sanitary staff, surveillance officers, and
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Jamaica on lookout for new COVID strain
Professor Peter Figueroa, one of Jamaica’s leading epidemiologists, said that if visitors from the United Kingdom (UK) to Jamaica in the last few weeks were observing strict quarantine measures, the risk of transmission of a new variant of...
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Atlanta Dream owner Kelly Loeffler calls open carry by Black Americans in Atlanta 'mob rule'
When Kelly Loeffler, a co-owner of the WNBA's Atlanta Dream, was tapped to replace Republican Johnny Isakson in the U.S. Senate at the end of 2019, she said in her introductory press conference that she would defend the second amendment -- "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
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Protesters: Remove Statues of Slave Kneeling Before Lincoln
Calls are intensifying for the removal of twin Emancipation memorials in Washington, D.C., and Boston that depict a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet — optics that jar and offend many in a nation confronting racial injustice through a fresh
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We Can Get Back To Normal, Chief Science Adviser Responds To Vaccine News - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
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No, thank you: High number of US healthcare, frontline workers refusing Covid-19 vaccine
A high percentage of vaccine refusal among not just health care workers, but the general population, could be 'problematic,' Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch noted.
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Africa Struggles With Logistical Hurdles As Covid-19 Vaccines Roll Out
[Vanguard] With the approval of the COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, and Mordena Inc., mass vaccinations have since commenced in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
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Brazilians protest mandatory COVID-19 immunization, Chinese vaccine - Stabroek News
SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) - More than 300 Brazilians gathered on São Paulo’s main commercial thoroughfare yesterday to protest state Governor João Doria’s support for mandatory COVID-19 immunization and testing the potential vaccine developed by
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No new plan for COVID-19 vaccine roll out
BY RICHARD MUPONDE/HARRIET CHIKANDIWA GOVERNMENT will use the existing immunisation policies as guidelines to roll out the COVID-19 vaccination programme when it starts. This was revealed last week by the Health and Child Care ministry director of epidemiology and disease control, Portia
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COVID-19 Vaccine Town Hall Meeting Separates Myths From Facts | The Madison Times
By Karen Stokes The Milwaukee Health Department hosted a COVID-19 vaccine virtual town hall meeting Wednesday night. The panelists included: Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett; Marlaina Jackson, MPA, interim commissioner of City of Milwaukee Health Department; Julia Means, a registered nurse at Ascension
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US asking states to speed vaccine, not hold back 2nd dose — The Sacramento Observer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking states to speed delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and older and to others at high risk by no longer holding back the second dose of the two-dose shots, officials said Tuesday. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that “the
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Trump approvingly tweets video showing ‘white power’ chant
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Trump tweets video with 'white power' chant, then deletes it
(AP): President Donald Trump today tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power," a racist slogan associated with white
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Moscow opens dozens of coronavirus vaccination centers
MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of doctors, teachers and others in high-risk groups have signed up for COVID-19 vaccinations in Moscow starting Saturday, a precursor to a sweeping Russia-wide immunisation effort. The vaccinations come three days...
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Pharmacies in PA will be allowed to administer COVID vaccine | New Pittsburgh Courier
by PublicSource Reporters Allegheny County Health Department reported 420 new COVID-19 cases and two new deaths Friday. The new cases — from positive tests dated Aug. 17 to Jan. 14 — come from individuals 8 months old to 101 years old, with a median age of 41. Among the new deaths, dated
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French vaccine rollout slowed by red tape, focus on elderly - Black News Channel
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The few hours it took to give the first coronavirus vaccine shots to 14 residents of the John XXIII nursing home — named after a pope and not far from the birthplace in eastern France of vaccine pioneer Louis Pasteur — took weeks of preparation. The
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States are preparing to receive coronavirus vaccines as early as December 11 | The Atlanta Voice
The Covid-19 vaccines are getting closer and closer to the American public as the virus continues to infect people and send them to the hospital. Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, said Tuesday that states have not been given a date to expect shipments of
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‘This is not a game’: Global virus death toll hits 2 million - DefenderNetwork.com
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the world, it seems a far-off dream. The numbing figure
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