NYC to Require Shots or Tests for Hospital Workers: Virus Update
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(Bloomberg) Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE reached an agreement to partner with South Africa’s Biovac Institute to make their Covid-19 vaccine at a facility in Cape Town and deliver more than 100 million doses annually to African nations.
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New York City will begin requiring Covid-19 vaccinations or weekly testing of all workers in its public hospitals and clinics in an attempt to slow an increase in cases sparked by the highly transmissible delta variant.
Covid-19 can be beaten if 70% of every nation’s population is vaccinated by mid-2022, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as he called for a massive global inoculation drive. “The pandemic will end when the world chooses to end it,” he said.
Pfizer Africa Agreement; Covid Surges Across Asia: Virus Update
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(Bloomberg) Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE reached an agreement to partner with South Africa’s Biovac Institute to make their Covid-19 vaccine at a facility in Cape Town and deliver more than 100 million doses annually to African nations.
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The virus continued its rampage through Asia, as South Korea and Thailand reported record infections and Indonesia registered the most daily deaths since the pandemic began. Japan’s top coronavirus adviser said cases in Tokyo could hit a new high in early August, before the end of the Olympics.
WHO’s Vaccination Target; Covid Surges Across Asia: Virus Update
Bloomberg 1 hr ago Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) Covid-19 can be beaten if 70% of every nation’s population is vaccinated by mid-2022, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as he called for a massive global inoculation drive. “The pandemic will end when the world chooses to end it,” he said.
The virus continued its rampage through Asia, as South Korea and Thailand reported record infections and Japan’s top coronavirus adviser said cases in Tokyo could hit a new high in early August, before the end of the Olympics.
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Singapore curbs gatherings as local cases hit record
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Fan-free Olympics leaves 1 million hotel cancellations
Chinese City Imposes Mandatory Tests
Nanjing, the capital of eastern Jiangsu province, now requires Covid tests for people leaving the city after Nanjing airport found nine positive samples from workers on Tuesday. The airport has cancelled flights, put relevant staff under centralized quarantine and started contact tracing.
Half of Australia in Lockdown
New cases continued to climb in Australia’s two largest cities on Wednesday as strict stay-at-home orders impacting half the nation failed to halt the spread of the delta variant.