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Omicron-specific Covid vaccine for India in 6 months, expects Adar Poonawalla

Serum Institue of India's Adar Poonawalla said he expects an Omicron-specific Covid-19 vaccine for India in 6 months Serum Institute of India's (SII) Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla said on Monday that he expects an Omicron-specific vaccine against the coronavirus for India in six months Adar Poonawalla, the world's biggest vaccine maker, produces AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine under the brand name Covishield. "Think this vaccine is important as a booster," Adar Poonawalla was quoted as saying. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has given the first green light to a variant-adapted shot that targets both the original and Omicron version of the coronavirus.

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Global COVID cases level, deaths decline

After a recent decline, global COVID-19 cases last week stabilized, with countries in some parts of Asia still the main hot spots, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its weekly update on the pandemic.

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COVID-19 deaths jump by 40%, but cases falling globally, WHO says

GENEVA - The number of people killed by the coronavirus surged by more than 40% last week, likely due to changes in how COVID-19 deaths were reported across the Americas and by newly adjusted figures from India, according to a World Health Organization report released Wednesday.In its latest weekly report on the pandemic, the U.N. health agency said the number of new coronavirus cases fell everywhere, including in WHO's Western Pacific region, where they had been rising since December.About 10 million new COVID-19 infections and more than 45,000 deaths were reported worldwide over the past week, following a 23% drop in fatalities the week before.The jump in reported deaths, up from 33,000 last week, was due mainly to an accounting change; WHO noted that countries including Chile and the United States altered how they define COVID-19 deaths.In addition, more than 4,000 deaths from Maharashtra state in India that initially weren't included among the COVID-19 death toll were added last week, according to WHO.WHO has said repeatedly that COVID-19 case counts are likely a vast underestimate of the coronavirus’ prevalence.

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COVID-19 deaths surge by 40% as cases drop globally, reports WHO

coronavirus surged by more than 40 per cent last week, likely due to changes in how COVID-19 deaths were reported across the Americas and by newly adjusted figures from India, according to a World Health Organization report released Wednesday.In its latest weekly report on the pandemic, the U.N. health agency said the number of new coronavirus cases fell everywhere, including in WHO’s Western Pacific region, where they had been rising since December.About 10 million new COVID-19 infections and more than 45,000 deaths were reported worldwide over the past week, following a 23% drop in fatalities the week before.The jump in reported deaths, up from 33,000 last week, was due mainly to an accounting change; WHO noted that countries including Chile and the United States altered how they define COVID-19 deaths.

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Global COVID cases rising again

After 5 weeks of declining cases, global COVID-19 cases rose last week, fueled by increasing cases in three regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its latest weekly update.

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Global drop in COVID-19 continues, but cases still high

The world's COVID-19 cases declined last week for the fifth week in a row, but hot spots remain in a handful of countries, especially in Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest weekly update.

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Global COVID cases, deaths drop, except in key hot spots

COVID-19 surges continue to intensify in locations such as Hong Kong, where Omicron variant activity got a later foothold, but cases and deaths continue to fall in most regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest weekly update yesterday.

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Global COVID-19 cases fall, except in Asian hot spots

Last week global COVID-19 cases, as well as deaths, continued to decline, except for parts of Asia that are experiencing later Omicron variant surges, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its weekly update.

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Strengthening mental health services in the Pacific during COVID-19 and beyond

It was a special day on Abemama Island when community leaders gathered in the ‘maneaba’, the meeting house at the heart of every community in Kiribati. Tekinano Karereiti, a primary health care worker, was facilitating a discussion about mental health. Community dialogue, the practice of listening and talking to each other on important issues, is deeply grounded in the history and culture of the Pacific Islands and this was a good opportunity to raise awareness of an increasingly important issue for islanders.

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Further decline in global COVID cases as deaths stabilize

COVID-19 cases across the globe declined last week for the second week in a row, with illness levels dropping in every region except the Western Pacific, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its weekly pandemic snapshot.

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COVID-19 immunisation starts for 5 to 11-year-old tāmariki

More than 120,000 doses of the child (paediatric) Pfizer vaccine have been delivered to over 500 vaccination sites around New Zealand as health providers prepare to start immunising 5 to 11-year-olds tamariki from today, 17 January.

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India logged over 83% rise in covid deaths in last one week

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COP26: Some activists fearful of climate summit while UK COVID-19 cases rise

LONDON (AP) - Climate activist Lavetanalagi Seru has been watching COVID-19 case numbers rise in the U.K. ahead of the U.N.

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Quad countries pledge to donate 120 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses globally

The Quad countries – United States, India, Japan and Australia – have pledged to donate more than 120 crore anti-Covid doses globally, in addition to the vaccines financed through Covax, they have said in a joint statement.

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COVID-19 variant 1st reported in India 'threatens' to rapidly spread in Asia-Pacific region: UNHCR

UNITED NATIONS : The highly-infectious Covid-19 variant first detected in India “threatens" to rapidly spread in the sub-region, including among refugees, the UN refugee agency has said as it warned of vaccine shortages in the Asia-Pacific region, including for asylum-seekers.United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Andrej Mahecic, at a press briefing in Geneva on Tuesday, said that the fragile health systems in many countries in the Asia and Pacific region have struggled to cope with the recent surge of coronavirus cases.“We are particularly worried about the situation in the Asia and Pacific region, which in the past two months has experienced the largest increase in the number of cases globally," he said.Over

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Why Covid-19 crisis has failed to trigger deep stock market selloff in India?

India’s Covid-19 crisis has so far failed to spark a deep stock selloff like that seen last year, and some asset managers point to less stringent curbs on activity as one factor at least for now.Even as the nation reports more than 300,000 confirmed infections and over 4,000 deaths a day, India’s benchmark equity index has been moving in line with regional peers. The S&P BSE Sensex index has declined 6.6% from a mid-February peak, about as much as the MSCI AC Asia Pacific index.

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Alberta doctors concerned sector-specific COVID-19 transmission data still not public

Alberta Health promised to release data on where COVID-19 was spreading back in January. Two months later and there is still no detailed breakdown of transmission by sector — and doctors say that information is vital for Albertans.

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Love is in the air at Canada-U.S. border as park becomes couple lifeline during COVID-19

Peace Arch Park — a 17-hectare stretch of manicured lawns and neatly trimmed garden beds at an otherwise unremarkable border crossing in the Pacific Northwest.Kelly, a 28-year-old Canadian legal assistant from Vancouver, had been crossing back and forth between British Columbia and Washington state to see her boyfriend without a hitch for two years.The start of the coronavirus pandemic, and the closure of the Canada-U.S. border in March 2020, forced a change of plans.

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Australia announces additional $100 million for distributing COVID-19 vaccine in Indo-Pacific region

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Hinshaw, Shandro to provide provincial COVID-19 update Tuesday afternoon

COVID-19 in the province and “the ongoing work to protect public health.”The chief medical officer of health and minister will be making their comments at 4 p.m. and you can watch them in this story.

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Media panel: COVID-19 vaccine public attitude and sentiment research

Media are invited to hear from the Ministry of Health about research undertaken to learn more about public attitudes and sentiment towards COVID-19 vaccines.

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3 sailors have COVID on US ship that saw outbreak last year

WASHINGTON – Three sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for COVID-19, the Navy said Monday, less than a year after a massive outbreak on the ship sidelined it in Guam for nearly two months.

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India sent 56 L COVID-19 vaccines to foreign nations as gift;100 L doses as commercial supplies: MEA

NEW DELHI : India provided 56 lakh doses of coronavirus vaccines under grants assistance to a number of countries while 100 lakh doses were sent under commercial supplies, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said Indian vaccines are scheduled to reach the Caribbean countries, Pacific Island states, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and Mongolia, in the coming weeks."We have so far supplied vaccines to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, the UAE, Brazil, Morocco, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Algeria, Kuwait and South Africa," he said at a media briefing."Supplies made under grant amount to 56 lakh doses and commercial supplies amount to over 100 lakh doses," he

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New research suggests Alberta COVID-19 R value currently too high to lift restrictions

new measures announced on Nov. 24.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Kenney said the province’s R value must be below one by Dec.

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Covid, movie halls, and OTT: Uday Shankar, Ajay Bijli discuss at #HTLS2020

Uday Shankar, President of The Walt Disney Company... moreUday Shankar, President of The Walt Disney Company, Asia Pacific, and Chairman of Star and Disney India, and Ajay Bijli, Chairman and Managing Director of PVR Ltd, engaged in an interesting conversation on the future of the entertainment industry in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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'Biggest IPL ever' amid Covid: Uday Shankar explains success #HTLS2020

Uday Shankar, President of the Walt Disney Company... moreUday Shankar, President of the Walt Disney Company, Asia Pacific, and Chairman, Star & Disney India explained the success of the 2020 Indian Premier League tournament.

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UK PM Johnson speaks with PM Modi on COVID-19 vaccines, climate change and trade

Boris Johnson spoke with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Friday to discuss a wide range of global and bilateral issues, including collaboration on COVID-19 vaccine, climate change, and trade and investment flows.Downing Street said Johnson reiterated the year 2021 as an important one for UK-India ties and also re-emphasised the UK's commitment to the wider Indo-Pacific region, ahead of the first deployment of the HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier group to the region next year."The leaders discussed the work the UK and India are doing together across trade, climate change, defence, security and health.

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Region’s leaders gather virtually to tackle COVID-19 and other health issues, chart WHO’s work in the Western Pacific

Health ministers and senior officials from countries and areas across Asia and the Pacific are gathering virtually this week to agree actions on health issues of the region and chart priorities for the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Western Pacific.

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China in talks with WHO over assessing its Covid-19 vaccines for global use

SINGAPORE: China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said on Tuesday.Hundreds of thousands of essential workers and other groups considered at high risk in China have been given locally-developed vaccines even as clinical trials had not been fully completed, raising safety concerns among experts.Socorro Escalate, WHO's coordinator for essential medicines and health technologies in the Western Pacific region, told a news conference conducted online that China had held preliminary discussions with WHO to have its vaccines included in a list for emergency use.The WHO's emergency use listing procedure

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Asia-Pacific may see $31.4-54.3 bn remittance losses due to Covid-19: ADB

New Delhi: Asia Pacific, which accounts for a third of the global migrant workforce, is likely to face remittance losses of USD 31.4-54.3 billion due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report.The governments need to come up with policy measures to reduce the economic and social fallout arising out of it, the ADB said.Job losses stemming from Covid-19 are hurting households around the world, but for Asia and the Pacific's 91 million migrant workers — a third of the global migrant workforce — the impacts will be particularly severe, the ADB said in August 2020 brief on 'COVID-19 Impact on International Migration, Remittances, and Recipient Households in Developing Asia."ADB economists estimate that the

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COVID-19 may lead to large-scale bankruptcies: Survey

NEW DELHI : COVID-19 pandemic may lead to large-scale bankruptcies and induce growing unethical behaviour in the investment management industry, as per a survey.The survey, which covered more than 13,000 respondents, also noted that 39 per cent of CFA charterholders globally and 46 per cent in India expect large scale consolidation of firms.According to the global survey by CFA Institute, 42 per cent of Asia Pacific respondents predict large-scale bankruptcies, while 50 per cent expect that the crisis may induce growing unethical behaviour in the investment management industry (against a global response of 45 per cent).It found that close to 80 per cent of respondents think any recovery would be slow or stagnant in the short-term before

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UNICEF and WHO call on Pacific Island countries to strengthen policies on breast-milk substitutes

UNICEFPacific/2018/Pirozzi SUVA, 5 June 2020 – As the Pacific region works on the preparedness and response for the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need for strong legislation to protect families from false claims about the safety and role of breast-milk substitutes or aggressive marketing practices.

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Defending the Pacific

There are only a handful of places that have not reported cases of COVID-19. Many of them are in the Pacific. American Samoa, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna are still virus-free.

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Celebrity jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer takes a mask-free stroll in the Pacific Palisades

Celebrity jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer broke free from quarantine to take a call and take a stroll near her home in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighborhood on Wednesday.The 44-year-old daughter of NBCUniversal vice-chairman Ronald Meyer neglected to wear a cloth mask, which LA Mayor Eric Garcetti made mandatory for all outdoor activity on May 13.Garcetti extended the stay-at home order indefinitely due to the 58K confirmed COVID-19 cases in LA County, which has led to 2,489 deaths as of Thursday - according to Johns Hopkins University.

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Covid-19, lockdown shoot up interest in senior living facilities

In a recent nationwide survey of 5,000 older people, Agewell Foundation found that 70% of elderly were either already facing health complications or fearing to develop some medical complications due to the lockdown restrictions

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Covid-19: Asia M&A deals at $29.9 bln in May, lowest in 3 years, says report

MUMBAI. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions across Asia Pacific (excluding Japan), fell to their lowest in three years to$29.9 billion across 709 deals in May, according to a report by Refinitiv, a financial market data provider.

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James Corden and wife Julia Carey enjoy a stroll in the Pacific Palisades amid the COVID-19 pandemic

James Corden enjoyed a laid-back stroll with his wife Julia Carey in LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood after undergoing eye surgery.For his secondpublic outing since the procedure, the Cats actor, 41, appeared in high sprits, while sporting a navy polo shirt and jeans on Tuesday.The TV producer, who shares son Max, nine and daughters Carey, five, and two-year-old Charlotte with the comedian, put her toned legs on full display in a pair of white shorts by her husband's side.

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Markets end nearly 1% lower after a volatile session

The BSE Sensex ended at 31,453.51, down 261.84 points or 0.83%. The 50-share index Nifty ended at 9,205.60, down 87.90 points or 0.95%

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Spotify Celebrates Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month With 'Our Roots. Our Sound.': Exclusive

Spotify is using its platform to lift up the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community at a time that's arguably more important than ever. Billboard can exclusively share the first details on the streaming service's plans for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month that launches today, May

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Virtual press conference on COVID-19 outbreak in the Western Pacific Region: 21 April 2020

When I briefed you three weeks ago, I stressed that the pandemic is far from over in Asia and the Pacific. This is going to be a long battle.

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Digital services to drive revenue for IT companies in Asia-Pacific, says report

NEW DELHI: The covid-19 induced lockdowns have led to a surge in demand for digital services and the pressing requirement for remote working tools. Demand is only likely grow going forward and this is expected to boost revenue for IT vendors in Asia-Pacific region in the medium-to-long term, said GlobalData, a UK based data and analytics company.

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Army reservists begin self-isolating to become ‘COVID-free soldiers’ in Vernon, B.C.

Lower Mainland reservists will begin sequestering themselves at the Vernon Military Camp beginning on Tuesday, according to the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Virtual press conference on COVID-19 in the Region

Today marks three months since WHO was alerted to a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown cause in Wuhan, China. Since then, the world as we know it has changed swiftly and dramatically, affecting millions of people’s lives.

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Companies must gear up to combat rising cyber threats amid covid-19

BENGALURU: Cyber criminals and the defenders are always in a cat and mouse game, with one trying to get ahead of the other. As the world’s focus has shifted to the covid-19 outbreak, hackers are finding ways to launch different forms of cyber attacks. With most people working from home, outside of the office network on their personal devices, cybercriminals are maximising on the vulnerabilities and organisations must gear up to combat them.

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Jennifer Garner cuts a casual figure in denim as she enjoys bike ride amid global Covid-19 pandemic

Her ex husband Ben Affleck is in a relationship with actress Anna de Armas, after the duo met in November 2019 on the set of their movie Deep River.And on Sunday, Jennifer Garner was spotted on a bike ride in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles amid the global Covid-19 pandemic.The actress, 47, cut a casual figure in jeans with a T-shirt for her outdoor activity, adding a jacket around her waist.

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Georgia-Pacific working to keep up with toilet paper demand

ATLANTA - Empty shelves in stores are a common sight as people stock up on toilet paper over COVID-19 virus concerns.

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Pacific steps up preparedness against COVID-19

In the Pacific, countries are scaling up efforts to ensure that they are ready and equipped to rapidly detect and respond to the threat of novel coronavirus, newly named COVID-19.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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