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Bloomberg China objected to a key provision of a World Trade Organization proposal to waive intellectualproperty rights for Covid19 vaccines that Beijing said would discourage shipments of doses to poorer nations. The development may complicate the WTOs multiyear effort to reach an agreement to help speed production of vaccines in the developing world by permitting certain countries to authorize the use of Covid19 jabs without the consent of the holders of the patent rights. Chinas opposition is problematic because WTO agreements require support from all 164 members meaning any one government can block the adoption of a vaccine IP waiver for any reason. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-06/china-rejects-its-exclusion-from-wto-vaccine-waiver-proposal?srnd=economics-vp 7th May 2022

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The Wall Street Journal European businesses are stepping up U.S. investment as executives search for growth and stability amid turbulence caused by the war in Ukraine and tough Covid19 lockdowns in China. The U.S. economy has emerged strong from the pandemic while Europes recovery prospects have been cast into doubt by the Ukraine war. Plus Beijings stringent zeroCovid policy and regulatory crackdowns on technology companies and debt problems at large real estate businesses have raised questions about its commitment to economic growth. Exposure to the Chinese market has provided enormous growth and profits for European companies over the past decades. Few European executives are considering a wholesale withdrawal from China but as its economy creaks businesses are rethinking their investment strategies. https://www.wsj.com/articles/war-in-europe-and-chinas-battle-with-covid-boost-u-s-s-business-appeal-11651915984?mod=hp_lead_pos1 7th May 2022

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The Wall Street Journal New Omicron subvariants are proliferating even in the face of significant protection from vaccinations and prior infection as policy makers consider measures including openended vaccination drives to keep the evolving virus at bay. Much of the U.S. population already had some level of antibodies to the virus when Omicron hit late last year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates. That likely shielded many from moresevere disease but the variant still fueled a record case surge and the secondhighest peak in Covid19 deaths. Immune defenses bolstered by the massive wave appear to be muting the impact of the yetmoreinfectious Omicron variants even as cases and hospitalizations increase once again. https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicrons-trajectory-shows-challenge-of-maintaining-immune-defenses-11651829400 7th May 2022

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BBC News Some experts blame concerns over the safety and efficacy of Covid vaccines for the slow uptake in many African countries. However others argue that after struggling to get vaccines Africa experienced a glut of supply which was difficult to use in the required time https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61347091 7th May 2022

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World Health Organization New estimates from the World Health Organization WHO show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID19 pandemic described as excess mortality between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million range 13.3 million to 16.6 million. These sobering data not only point to the impact of the pandemic but also to the need for all countries to invest in more resilient health systems that can sustain essential health services during crises including stronger health information systems said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO DirectorGeneral. WHO is committed to working with all countries to strengthen their health information systems to generate better data for better decisions and better outcomes. Excess mortality is calculated as the difference between the number of deaths that have occurred and the number that would be expected in the absence of the pandemic based on data from earlier years. https://www.who.int/news/item/05-05-2022-14.9-million-excess-deaths-were-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-2020-and-2021 7th May 2022

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Reuters There is a lot of pentup demand. People want to see their families and travel again said Phil Seymour president of IBA Group a UKbased consultancy and aircraft valuation firm. That echoes soaring domestic demand in the United States. The big overlay is that air travel demand is back and it is back in a massive way Sean Egan Chief Executive of the EganJones Ratings Company told the Airfinance Journal conference. Challenges remain in the form of rising costs and staff shortages causing flights to be cancelled. Some airlines have promised more than they can deliver this summer delegates warned. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europe-sees-travel-recovery-covid-restrictions-ease-2022-05-06/ 8th May 2022

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Bloomberg Chinese Premier Li Keqiang warned of a complicated and grave employment situation as Beijing and Shanghai tightened curbs on residents in a bid to contain Covid outbreaks in the countrys most important cities. Li instructed all government departments and regions to prioritize measures aimed at helping businesses retain jobs and weather the current difficulties according to a late Saturday statement which cited the premiers comments in a nationwide teleconference on employment. Stabilizing employment matters to peoples livelihoods it is also a key support for the economy to operate within a reasonable range Li said https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/china-premier-warns-of-grave-jobs-situation-as-lockdowns-bite 8th May 2022

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Yahoo The state is experiencing an uptick in new reported deaths hospitalizations and cases as new data analysis shows that this is not just a pandemic of the unvaccinated. The pandemics toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots a Washington Post analysis that was published late last month found. During the omicron variant surge the vaccinated made up 42 of deaths in January and February compared with 23 of the dead in September the peak of the delta wave according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wisconsin-experiencing-increase-covid-19-230525836.html 8th May 2022

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CT Insider Connecticut has many thousands of doses of free COVID antivirals available. But few patients are being prescribed the drugs. Approved earlier this year under an emergencyuse authorization Pfizers Paxlovid and Modernas molnupiravir are the first outpatient therapeutics available to fight COVID according to state Department of Public Health Commissioner Manisha Juthani. So far all the treatments that weve had and that have evolved over the last two years have been things that you need to be in the hospital to receive she said. This is the first advance that we have that is an oral medication that people can go to a pharmacy and can pick it up. https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/CT-has-12-000-free-Paxlovid-doses-to-treat-COVID-17157429.php 8th May 2022

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Reuters Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City would seem like an ideal site to implement Chinas closedloop management system to prevent the spread of COVID that requires staff to live and work onsite in a secure bubble. Sprawled over land the size of 20 football fields the campus houses factories living quarters for 40000 workers some living 12 per room and even a supermarket. But as COVID19 breeched Quantas defences the system broke down into chaos on Thursday. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chaos-apple-supplier-quanta-shows-strains-shanghai-covid-lockdown-2022-05-08/ 8th May 2022

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Reuters Shanghai is tightening its already strict COVID19 lockdown in a fresh push to eliminate infections outside quarantined areas of Chinas biggest city by late this month people familiar with the matter said. Curbs will likely vary across the citys 16 districts as some have already hit the target but the people said movement curbs will generally remain until the end of May due to fears of a rebound despite recently falling case numbers in the countrys worst coronavirus outbreak. Accounts from residents in several districts as well as social media posts showed the government of the city of 25 million accelerating and expanding an effort to transfer the close contacts of positive cases to central quarantines centres. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/shanghai-tightens-lockdown-hit-zero-covid-goal-by-late-may-sources-2022-05-08/ 8th May 2022

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Reuters Chinas capital Beijing kicked off a fresh round of mass testing for COVID19 on Saturday and shut more bus routes and metro stations as it seeks to avert the fate of Shanghai where millions of residents have been locked down for over a month. The draconian movement curbs on Shanghai an economic and financial hub have caused frustration among its 25 million residents and triggered rare protests over issues such as access to food and medical care loss of income and crowded as well as unsanitary conditions at central quarantine centres. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/beijing-kicks-off-fresh-round-covid-tests-shanghai-postpones-crucial-exams-2022-05-07/ 7th May 2022

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The Wall Street Journal Mya Pol said it takes her about 30 minutes to get from her dorm at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to her communications class. The trip across campus would take most of her peers less than half that time she said. Ms. Pol a 21yearold senior communications major uses a wheelchair. She said that every day she wonders how different her college experience would have been if she could have attended classes remotely as she has during most of the Covid19 pandemic. Disabled people have been asking for remote access to work and education forever Ms. Pol said. That sprung up pretty quickly with Covid and was fantastic. It created a lot more access for individuals who couldnt make the class. https://www.wsj.com/articles/universities-have-returned-in-person-but-some-disabled-students-dont-want-to-go-back-11651869722 7th May 2022

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Bloomberg A key district in Chinas capital has ordered some businesses providing nonessential services such as gyms and movie theaters to close to prevent the spread of Covid infections after President Xi Jinping reaffirmed his stringent Covid Zero policy. Beijings eastern Chaoyang district home to embassies and offices of multinationals including Apple Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ordered companies providing services other than those supporting residents livelihoods to be closed until further notice an official said at a briefing on Friday evening. Businesses ordered closed include karaoke bars internet cafes museums and art galleries said Yang Beibei deputy director of Chaoyang district. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-07/beijing-district-shuts-gyms-movie-theaters-to-halt-covid-spread 7th May 2022

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Bloomberg Willie Nelson is cancelling an upcoming performance at the New Orleans Jazz Heritage festival and postponing other shows after a positive case of the coronavirus in his band. The 89yearold musician posted on his bands website on Friday that due to a positive Covid case in the Willie Nelson Family Band two upcoming shows scheduled to happen May 6 and May 7 would be postponed and that Nelsons Sunday performance at Jazz Fest would be cancelled. Nelson was slated to close the Gentilly Stage the same stage where his son Lukas Nelson is performing earlier in the day with his band the Promise of the Real. No replacement for the elder Nelson has yet been announced. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-07/coronavirus-forces-cancellations-in-jazz-fest-s-2nd-weekend 7th May 2022

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Bloomberg Jon Batiste said he was so disappointed as he cancelled several upcoming shows after testing positive for Covid19. The Grammywinning artist said he would be absent from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and have to postpone the premiere of his American Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York a show he had been working on for years. Batiste said the decision to cancel was to keep my family my friends and our loyal fans safe and reassured them that he would be returning to the stage soon. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-07/jon-batiste-so-disappointed-to-cancel-shows-after-testing-positive-for-covid 7th May 2022

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Reuters Shanghai authorities were tightening the citywide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago prolonging into late May an ordeal that Chinas capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by turning mass testing into an almost daily routine. The commercial hub of 25 million was making a fresh push to bring case numbers outside the areas that were facing the strictest curbs to zero by the second half of May people familiar with the matter told Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/beijing-covid-outbreak-proves-stubborn-mass-tests-becoming-routine-2022-05-08/ 8th May 2022

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Rain City A Shaw Communications employee and his union are speaking out against the telecommunications giant after it refused to give some of its B.C. workers paid leave to get their COVID19 vaccinations citing federal regulations. I was surprised and dismayed said the employee who has been with the company for more than 10 years and whose identity CBC News has agreed to keep confidential for fear of retaliation. https://raincitynews.com/shaw-says-b-c-employees-cant-have-paid-leave-for-covid-19-shots/ 8th May 2022

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Moneycontrol India reported 3805 new coronavirus infections in a day pushing the number of active cases of the disease in the country to 20303 and the overall tally to 43098743 according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The data released at 8 am also showed that 22 fatalities 20 of them from Kerala alone were reported in a 24hour period taking the cumulative death toll to 524024. The active cases now constitute 0.05 per cent of the total infections the health ministry said adding that the countrys COVID19 recovery rate is at 98.74 per cent. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.78 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 0.79 per cent the ministry said. https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/coronavirus/india-reports-3805-fresh-covid-19-cases-22-fatalities-in-last-24-hours-8468011.html 7th May 2022

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The Wall Street Journal Moderna Inc. is trying to fend off rival companies claims that its Covid19 vaccine infringes their patents arguing that the companies may only pursue their claims seeking royalties from the federal government. Moderna on Friday filed a motion to dismiss some of the patentinfringement claims in the lawsuit which was filed in February by two small biotechnology companies Arbutus Biopharma Corp. and Genevant Sciences GmbH in federal court in Delaware. It is the latest move in the highstakes legal battles that are breaking out among companies and the government over patents surrounding Covid19 vaccines. Arbutus and Genevant claimed in their lawsuit that Modernas vaccine has components covered by their patents and they are seeking royalties from the multibilliondollar sales of Modernas vaccine. https://www.wsj.com/articles/moderna-seeks-to-dismiss-covid-19-vaccine-patent-lawsuit-11651871569 7th May 2022

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The Wall Street Journal The Biden administration estimates 100 million Americans may become infected with Covid19 in the fall and winter without additional funding to help combat the pandemic and buy new vaccines for a fall booster campaign. The infections would result from a virus that is rapidly adapting and waning natural and vaccine immunity as well as from lack of money for updating vaccines and for stockpiling tests and treatments a senior administration official said Friday. The cases would amount to a million a day over the course of three to four months according to a senior administration official who shared the estimate as part of a White House push to secure 22.5 billion in new funding to combat the pandemic. https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-warns-of-fall-winter-surge-without-additional-covid-19-funding-11651870939 6th May 2022

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The Guardian Xi Jinping has confirmed there is no intention to turn away from Chinas zeroCovid commitment in a major speech to the countrys senior officials that also warned against any criticism or doubting of the policy. Addressing the sevenmember politburo standing committee Chinas highest decisionmaking body specifically about the Shanghai outbreak the president said Chinas response was scientific and effective. He told officials to unswervingly adhere to the general policy of dynamic zeroCovid. We have won the battle to defend Wuhan and we will certainly be able to win the battle to defend Shanghai he said according to a translation by Sinocisms Bill Bishop. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/xi-jinping-attacks-doubters-as-he-doubles-down-on-chinas-zero-covid-policy 6th May 2022

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The Guardian Piers Corbyn has been fined 250 after accusing NHS staff at a London Covid19 vaccination clinic of murdering people. The brother of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had arrived with a group of antivaxxers at Guys hospital in central London on 18 January with a cease and desist letter that they claimed was to prevent NHS staff from administering the Covid19 vaccine. Corbyn told Chelsea Butcher a nursing sister We are not leaving you are murdering people here and another member of the group said This is a crime scene Westminster magistrates court heard. Iestyn Morgan prosecuting said Corbyn 75 and David Burridge 44 from Hounslow west London refused to leave the hospitals atrium despite requests from NHS staff and police. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/06/piers-corbyn-fined-over-claim-at-covid-vaccine-clinic 6th May 2022

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The Wall Street Journal BEIJINGFor weeks Beijing has teetered on the edge of a hard Covidinduced lockdown. For the most part citizens are unruffled confident that the restrictions that have paralyzed Shanghai for six weeks are simply unthinkable in the capital. In recent ... https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijing-residents-keep-faith-with-governments-zero-covid-strategy-11651996670 8th May 2022

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The Washington Post When her partner tested positive for the coronavirus two days before Christmas Michelle Green worried she too would become ill. She was two months pregnant with their second child. He was a bartender at the time and some of his coworkers were infected with the virus. I told him to get in the guest bedroom and dont leave said Green a 40yearold project manager at a retail technology startup in the District. The couple who were both vaccinated and their toddler postponed their Christmas celebration. Somehow Green never tested positive. Scientists around the world are investigating how a dwindling number of people such as Green have managed to dodge the coronavirus for more than two years even after the highly transmissible omicron variant drove a recordshattering surge in cases this winter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/08/study-never-get-covid/ 9th May 2022

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CTV News A new study says that cognitive impairment due to long COVID is the equivalent of aging 20 years or losing 10 IQ points. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London published their findings in the journal eClinicalMedicine last week. They looked at data from 46 individuals who received care at a hospital for COVID19 between March and July 2020 and compared them to a matched control group. Six months after their stay in hospital the researchers invited the patients and the control group to undergo a computerized test to measure their memory attention and reasoning. The researchers found that compared to the control group those who had been hospitalized with COVID19 were less accurate and displayed slower response times in the test. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/cognitive-impairment-from-long-covid-equivalent-to-aging-20-years-study-finds-1.5893922 9th May 2022

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SciTechDaily Cognitive impairment as a result of severe COVID19 is similar to that sustained between 50 and 70 years of age and is the equivalent to losing 10 IQ points say a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London. The findings published recently in the journal eClinicalMedicine emerge from the National Institute for Health and Care Research NIHR COVID19 BioResource. The results of the study suggest the effects are still detectable more than six months after the acute illness and that any recovery is at best gradual. https://scitechdaily.com/cognitive-impairment-from-severe-covid-19-equivalent-to-20-years-of-aging-losing-10-iq-points/ 9th May 2022

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Fortune The COVID death rate is a shadow of its former self and more than two years into the pandemic Americans seem to be breathing a sigh of reliefthanks to vaccines their risk of death or hospitalization from the virus is greatly diminished. But theres more to take into account before ditching your mask experts sayLong COVID a new chronic condition defined by an array of symptoms that endure long after the initial COVID infection has cleared. Long COVID may already affect between 7 and 23 million Americans who previously had the virus or up to 7 of the U.S. population according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. https://fortune.com/2022/05/08/surviving-pandemic-half-the-battle-long-covid-growing-public-health-crisis-could-affect-a-billion-in-just-a-few-years/ 8th May 2022

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The Lancet In late February 2022 a wave of SARSCoV2 infection rapidly appeared in Shanghai China. According to the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission as of May 4 2022 601942 cases have been identified including 547056 asymptomatic carriers. 503 people have died with or from COVID19. Phylogenetic features of SARSCoV2 viral genomes from 129 patients in this period and inferring their relationship with those available on the GISAID database indicated that all of the new viral genomes in Shanghai were clustered into the SARSCoV2 BA.2.2 sublineage. Of note BA.2 is a sublineage of the omicron variant of SARSCoV2 B.1.1.159. Multiple sublineages of BA.2 have been characterised many of which appear to show distinct regional distribution patterns. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00838-8/fulltext 7th May 2022

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Bloomberg Jacob Hopkins 24 tried hard not to get Covid19 in the months leading up to March 2021 when if he succeeded he could be part of a unique experiment in which he was deliberately infected with the virus. Almost a year earlier he had put his name on a list of volunteers. Months went by until on Dec. 23 he finally heard back from someone associated with the experiment. He ended up being the very first volunteer given the infection patient 1. As he described it to me he took a cab to a hospital in London wearing a mask so he would be sure not to catch Covid at the last minute. He arrived on a Friday went through a battery of tests over two days and on Monday five healthcare workers came in wearing full PPE like something out of the movie Contagion pulling in a tank of solution containing SARSCoV2. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-06/they-got-covid-on-purpose-to-help-scientists-learn-more-about-it 7th May 2022

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Bloomberg South Africas daily coronavirus test positivity rate neared a record rising above 30 on Saturday for the first time in almost five months as two sublineages of the omicron variant spread rapidly ahead of the nations winter season. There were 8524 new Covid19 cases identified representing a 31.1 positivity rate of those tested the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said in a statement on its website. Thats the highest rate since the 32.2 recorded on Dec. 15 when a record 26976 cases were recorded. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-07/south-africa-covid-19-test-positivity-rate-nears-record 7th May 2022

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Nature.com Three new studies offer a first look at how well some of the most widely used COVID19 vaccines protect young children from the coronavirus13. The results including data from toddlers as young as three years old have prompted mixed responses among researchers about whether the vaccines should be recommended for use in kids. The research examines two inactivated vaccines which rely on whole viruses that have been killed that were developed by Chinese scientists. The results from Argentina Brazil and Chile show that in children the vaccines provide little protection against SARSCoV2 infection and modest protection against symptomatic COVID19. The studies also show that the vaccines are less effective against the nowdominant Omicron variant than the earlier Delta variant. The studies have not yet been peer reviewed. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01239-4 6th May 2022

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The Guardian Healthy younger people in the UK may never be offered another Covid jab a leading expert has said as a new wave of infections is expected to hit the country in the coming weeks. Giving his personal expert opinion Adam Finn a professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol and a member of the UKs Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation suggested there was little point in offering a fourth jab to those yet to pass middle age at least in the current landscape. I think its questionable whether young healthy people will ever be offered another Covid vaccine beyond dose three at least with the vaccines and variants we have now Finn said although he added both could change. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/06/healthy-young-people-uk-may-never-offered-another-covid-jab-expert 6th May 2022

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Bloomberg New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced in a tweet Sunday afternoon that she had tested positive for Covid19. Governor Hochul says she is vaccinated and boosted against the virus and is feeling asymptomatic. Due to the positive test result she will isolate and work remotely this week. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/new-york-governor-hochul-tested-positive-for-covid-19 9th May 2022

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Bloomberg New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is isolating after partner Clarke Gayford tested positive for Covid19. Ardern and daughter Neve are both fine but will quarantine at home for seven days as required under current government guidelines for close contacts Ardern said in a Facebook post Sunday in Wellington. Gayford is definitely crook but hes doing okay she told Radio New Zealand on Monday. Were having the same experience that many New Zealanders have had over the course of the past three months she said. Juggling a few things but doing just fine thanks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/new-zealand-s-ardern-isolating-after-partner-tests-positive 8th May 2022

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Hurriyet Daily News Turkeys confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 1480 in the past 24 hours and 9 more people have died the Health Ministry announced on May 8. The ministrys infographic said that some 1526 patients recovered in the last 24 hours. It also added that 98758 tests were conducted over the past day. The infographic also showed that Turkey has so far administered over 147.5 million doses since it launched a mass vaccination campaign in January 2021. More than 57.8 million people have received their first doses while over 53 million have been fully vaccinated. https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-reports-1-480-new-coronavirus-cases-9-more-deaths-173625 8th May 2022

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The Guardian A Biden administration official warned Friday that there could be 100m Covid19 infections this fall and winter potentially spurring a surge in hospitalizations and deaths. The White House is preparing backup plans for providing vaccines to US residents if lawmakers refuse to provide more funds for coronavirus response efforts the New York Times reported. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/07/covid-surge-fall-winter-biden-administration-warning 8th May 2022

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Kathimerini Greek health authorities announced 3195 new coronavirus cases along with 23 deaths for the 24hour period ending 9 a.m. Sunday. Cases declined significantly from the 4698 announced a day earlier but this may well be due to fewer tests being administered over the weekend. Deaths did rise from 19 a day ago. There are also 204 patients on ventilators down from 210 Saturday and 238 last Sunday. Since the start of the pandemic there have been 3361779 confirmed coronavirus cases of which an estimated 125954 or 3.6 are reinfections along with 29392 fatalities 217 of them over the past week. https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1183888/coronavirus-3195-new-cases-23-deaths/ 8th May 2022

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Business Standard Pakistan reported a total of 46 new COVID19 cases and three deaths on Saturday the countrys ministry of health said on Sunday. This comes amid World Health Organisation WHO estimates that suggest that the actual number of COVID19 deaths in Pakistan was eight times the figure reported by the government. The tally of infected people increased to 1528736 after adding the new cases according to the data released by the ministry as per Xinhua. The overall death toll rose to 30375 after three more deaths were recorded on Saturday according to the ministrys statistics. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/pakistan-reports-46-fresh-coronavirus-cases-and-three-more-deaths-122050800351_1.html 8th May 2022

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The National The UAE recorded 225 new Covid19 cases on Sunday taking the overall tally of infections to 900251. Another 253 people overcame the virus as total recoveries climbed to 884228. The latest cases were confirmed after 195790 additional PCR tests were conducted over the past 24 hours. No Covidrelated deaths have been reported since March 7 and the toll remains at 2302. https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/2022/05/08/coronavirus-uae-records-225-new-cases/ 8th May 2022