G-7 leaders pledge 1B COVID-19 vaccines to countries

More European countries could scrap tests for fully vaccinated arrivals in the coming days, according to reports.

PHILADELPHIA - A water main break in Kingsessing is disrupting traffic and causing major problems early Wednesday morning. The water main break happened at approximately 6:30 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA - Police say they made an arrest in a carjacking that led to a wild pursuit Tuesday evening. The incident happened Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. when police responded to report of a man following his Mercedes Benz sedan that was stolen during a carjacking at gun point about a week ago. Police were able to catch up to the vehicle which was on the 4000 block of Aramingo Avenue. When police attempted to stop the stolen Mercedes Benz, the driver took off at a high rate of speed and refused to stop, according to officials. Officers continued their pursuit until the driver of that stolen vehicle got to the 4500 block of Richmond Street when the vehicle crashed, rear-ending a parked and unattended vehicle. At this point, the driver got out of the stolen vehicle and attempted to flee on foot.

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COVID-19 rapid antigen tests at grocery stores, pharmacies and other settings.A government source with knowledge of the plan told The Canadian Press that Health Minister Christine Elliott will announce more details on Wednesday.The source said there will be a limit of one box of five tests per household per visit, though some stores might have different processes.Ontario provided free rapid antigen test kits at malls and liquor stores in December ahead of the holidays.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka Police confirmed the arrest of the main suspect wanted in connection with the attempted shooting of an ambulance driver on the 27th of January opposite the Panadura Base Hospital.Sri Lanka Police said 8 grams of heroin was seized from the possession of the 32-year-old suspect from Kuruppumulla on Tuesday (8) night.Detectives are planning on obtaining a detention order to detain and interrogate the suspect, after producing him to the Panadura Magistrate’s Court.Sri Lanka Police on Tuesday (8) also arrested a 51-year-old man in connection to the attempted shooting of an ambulance driver in Panadura, on the 27th of January 2022.The suspect was identified as the assistant to the ambulance driver who was the main target of the shooters.On Independence Day (4), the Kalutara Crimes Division arrested the ambulance driver who was the target of gunmen in Panadura.Sri Lanka Police said the ambulance driver was transferring an expectant mother to the Panadura Hospital when several people chased after him on four motorcycles and opened fire at him.However, the weapon used by the gunman had jammed.Police said the ambulance driver was arrested after it was revealed that he was transporting Heroin at the time of the incident.According to Police, the person who was driving the motorcycle and the person who assisted in the shooting were also arrested.The assistant to the ambulance driver had confessed to police that the ambulance was used to transport drugs on several occasions.In addition, another man was arrested from Panadura on Tuesday (8) for spying on the ambulance driver.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya on Wednesday (9) ordered to release of a Church worker, who was detained over the discovery of a hand grenade from All Saint’s Church in Borella.On the 2nd of February, the Additional Magistrate ordered to release of three other workers connected to the incident.Accordingly, all four church workers who were arrested and detained over the incident, have been released.Sri Lanka’s Attorney General had recommended that they be released given the fact that they were not involved in the incident.A week ago, Deputy Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris informed the court that it was revealed that the three other workers were not connected to the incident in any way, and the Attorney General had advised to release them.

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ANI reported. AIIMS Medical Superintendent DK Sharma in a letter today said in accordance with current ICMT's national guidelines, it has been decided to discontinue routine Covid-19 testing prior to inpatient hospitalisations (regular as well as daycare) and also prior to any minor or major surgical or interventional or non-interventional procedures and imaging in clinically asymptomatic patients.AIIMS, Delhi announces to discontinue routine COVID-19 testing prior to inpatient hospitalization and surgeries pic.twitter.com/R0wjcSdaFl

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Phillip Schofield has returned to This Morning after testing positive for coronavirus. The 59-year-old presenter had been forced to skip hosting This Morning and Dancing on Ice and admitted he was "bored out of his brain" while locked away in his home after testing positive for Covid seven days in a row.

Canada’s Meryeta O’Dine won the bronze medal in her Olympic debut at the Beijing Winter Games in women’s snowboard cross Wednesday.

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A review is set to be launched after four children were given Covid vaccine overdoses of more than twice the approved amount.

A Business Proposal has been pushed back by a week.Today (February 9), the show’s production team announced that the premiere of A Business Proposal has been pushed back by a week, attributing the delay to stricter COVID-19 protocols on the show’s set. The show will now premiere on February 28.“We have decided to inevitably postpone the first broadcast of A Business Proposal for a week due to COVID-19 in order to change the filming schedule and secure a safe production environment,” a representative from the show said, per Sports Chosun and translated by Soompi.“The first broadcast date has been changed from February 21 to February 28,” the representative added.

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COLOMBO (News 1st); The EU has urged Sri Lanka to continue reducing the use of the PTA, and to undertake further practical and administrative steps to release on bail those detained under the PTA without charges.The European Union (EU) and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka held their 24th meeting of the Joint Commission on 8th February 2022 in Brussels.During the meeting, Sri Lanka reiterated its objective to achieve measurable, tangible, and verifiable results on the ground in meeting its commitments.In this context, the EU welcomed the submission by the Government of Sri Lanka of amendments to the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday he was very confident that he would be able to lift remaining COVID-19 restrictions in the United Kingdom on his new target date of July 19, based on the most recent data.

Delta coronavirus variant, Public Health England data showed on Friday, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson decided to delay the final lifting of lockdown restrictions.PHE said there had been 33,630 new cases of the Delta variant first identified in India in the week to June 16, taking the number of confirmed cases to 75,953, a 79 per cent increase on the previous total.

Covid-19 cases are "rising exponentially" across England driven by younger and mostly unvaccinated age groups, according to scientists tracking the epidemic.

EX EastEnders star Michael Greco has risked outrage by claiming that some Covid cases are "only hay fever." The actor, 51, who played Bepe di Marco between 1998 and 2002, put out a post following Boris Johnson's announcement lockdown lift would be delayed because of the Delta strain of the virus. Michael wrote on his Instagram: "If people stop getting tested (probably false positives anyway) whenever they have a runny nose or watery eyes of a slight cough or any very basic, human, bodily symptom, then maybe, just maybe we will come out of this s**t before 2030!!!!" "It's probably hayfever anyway.

couples have been left worrying about face masks rather than what time the DJ should start. 30 people are currently allowed at ceremonies both indoors and outside since the changes in restrictions on May 17. Hugging is also permitted, as long as it is done so with "caution and restraint".

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by today’s standards) and had shamelessly planned on putting any additional costs – there are always additional costs – on the credit card. It was going to be a glorious year of constant celebration, albeit one that was going to be hard on the liver, and the purse strings.We all know what happened next.

Holyrood amid claims the route out of lockdown could be delayed as long as 10 weeks due to the rising cases of the virus. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that England's 'Freedom Day' would be delayed by four weeks because of the spread of the Delta variant across the country.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson today announced that the final reopening phase will be delayed a month, due to the expanding spread of the Delta (B1617.2) SARS-CoV-2 variant.

Latitude Festival has issued a statement in response to the government’s announcement that planned easing of coronavirus restrictions will be delayed by four weeks.Previously, all limits on social distancing and crowd capacities were due to be lifted on June 21, however Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced today (June 14) that this will now not take place until July 19 due to the spread of new COVID-19 variants.With Latitude due to begin just three days later (July 22-25) the festival’s founder Melvin Benn has said the team is still weighing up whether it can take place as planned.“We don’t think it means the end of our hopes for Latitude this year,” said the statement, which you can read in full below.A @cinchuk presents Latitude 2021

England’s reopening phase has been put on hold.

Boris Johnson delayed his plans to lift coronavirus lockdown restrictions by a month on Monday, citing the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant and announcing plans to use the extra time to speed up vaccination."I think it is sensible to wait just a little longer," he told a news conference, he said.

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Euro 2020 matches at Wembley. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is poised to announce tonight the four-week set-back to the original planned date of June 21.Wembley has been restricted to a capacity of 25 per cent thus far in the tournament.And that was poised to increase from 22,500 to a potential 45,000 for the semi-final and final due to take place in London.

Follow all the latest updates on our blog below. A delay to lockdown easing may also help break the link between infections and hospital admissions, a public health professor suggested.Professor Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, told LBC that the variant first identified in India now accounted for the majority of UK cases, but the death rate among people with this infection was low."You can see amongst people who were infected with this variant, the mortality rate was 0.7%, just 12 people," she said."We think they are all the people who had underlying health conditions and died with Covid, not from Covid necessarily."So the proportion of people in hospital now is half of what it was, if we were in the previous situation in

RICHARD Madeley launched into a furious rant about the uncertainty of Covid wedding restrictions today saying his family have been "driven demented". The Good Morning Britain presenter's son Jack and his future daughter-in-law Issy are due to get married later this month.

G-7 summit in the coastal Cornwall region of the U.K.But Merkel’s larger figure includes a much wider array of contributions already offered, as well future exports, according to a European official.So far, the G-7 countries have promised only as many as 700 million truly new doses, funded in part by previously announced aid. If doses already announced in recent weeks by G-7 and EU nations are included, the tally grows to 870 million doses, as the communique notes.To reach the 1 billion figure, G-7 officials included pledges made starting back in February.Big SplashThe leaders clearly wanted to make a big splash with the promise.

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat down with the Group of Seven world leaders at Cabris Bay in Cornwall, U.K.

FALMOUTH, England - World leaders will kick off the 47th G-7 Summit on Friday in the United Kingdom.Last year’s event, which was scheduled to be held in the United States, was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The Group of Seven, consisting of the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan, will meet from Friday to Sunday in the southwest of England. Representatives from the European Union will also attend.UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, will host leaders from the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Canada at the G7 Summit that begins on Friday, June 11, 2021.

G7 leaders - who are meeting in England - are pledging to donate hundreds of millions of Covid-19 vaccines to poor countries.

500 million doses of anti-coronavirus vaccine to the world, as promised by President Joe Biden, was not enough and the United States should do more in the global fight against the pandemic.Before attending a G-7 summit in England, Biden on Thursday promised to donate 500 million doses of vaccine to bolster the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic across the world.Later, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the G7 nations are set to commit to providing at least 1 billion coronavirus shots to the rest of the world."While I'm glad the US will purchase 500 million doses to support global inoculation efforts with 200 million doses to be given by the end of 2021, that is not enough.

vaccinate the entire world by the end of next year. G7 leaders are expected to agree to provide one billion doses via dose sharing and financing to end the pandemic in 2022.

Euro 2020 matches taking place at Wembley are set to be given an exemption from lockdown rules by the Government, with 45,000 fans expected to attend knockout-stage fixtures.UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set his sights on bringing the country out of lockdown entirely on June 21, but certain reports suggest 'Freedom Day' could be delayed by two weeks amid concerns over new Covid-19 variants.Regardless of whether Johnson puts those plans on hold or not, though, The Telegraph are reporting that Euro 2020 matches being held at Wembley will not be subject to the same restrictions at other events.A capacity of 22,500 spectators at the national stadium will be guaranteed throughout the tournament, while as many as 45,000 could be allowed to

Today in the United Kingdom, President Joe Biden confirmed the United States would be donating 500 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine globally.

LONDON : The Delta coronavirus variant of concern, first identified in India, is believed to be 60% more transmissible than the Alpha variant which was previously dominant in Britain, a prominent UK epidemiologist said on Wednesday.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that England's full reopening from COVID-19 lockdown, pencilled in for June 21, could be pushed back due to the rapid spread of the Delta variant.Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London told reporters that estimates of Delta's transmission edge over Alpha had narrowed, and "we think 60% is probably the best estimate".Ferguson said that modelling suggested any third wave of infections could rival Britain's second wave in the winter - which was fuelled by the Alpha

This Morning has been hit with fresh Ofcom complaints after guest Beverley Turner and host Dermot O'Leary had a heated row over the coronavirus vaccine.The television watchdog regulator has revealed that 255 complaints were lodged against the ITV daytime show this week, 52 complaints were made against Beverley.195 viewers objected to comments by Dermot and guest Matthew Wright as part of the discussion with Beverley, while five concerned to comments made by host Alison Hammond relating to vaccination.

Noel Gallagher has blasted Boris Johnson a “fat cunt” over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.The Prime Minister has faced intense criticism over his perceived lack of leadership throughout the pandemic, with the virus claiming the lives of 128,000 people across the UK.Speaking in an interview with The New Cue, the Oasis icon said: “Boris Johnson has proved himself not to be the fucking man in the crisis. Number one, getting it for a start – you fucking idiot.“Right at the start of it he’s out of the game for three months.