As Mexico surpassed 200,000 test-confirmed deaths from COVID-19 Thursday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador framed ramped up vaccination efforts as a race against time. The president prepared to call out more military, state, and local personnel to spur the vaccination effort as more doses arrive, including a shipment of 1.7 million AstraZeneca shots the United States has “loaned”...
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Health Ministry: 3,560 new Corona cases, 61 deaths
The Ministry of Public Health announced, on Thursday, the registration of 3,560 new Corona infections, thus raising the cumulative number of confirmed cases to-date to 452,281. It also indicated that 61 deaths were recorded during the past 24 hours.
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Wazni signs decree to cover the purchase of 1.5 million doses of Astrazeneca vaccine
Caretaker Finance Minister, Ghazi Wazni, signed today a decree to transfer an appropriation from the general budget reserve to the budget of the Ministry of Public Health, to cover the cost of purchasing one and a half million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, whereby the first shipment of this quantity will arrive during the first week...
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Cypriot authorities decide to reopen Cyprus air borders to the Lebanese people as of April 1
The Middle East Airlines announced in a press release on Thursday that the Cypriot authorities decided to reopen Cyprus air borders to the Lebanese people as of April 1, without prior permission. As of April 1 to April 16, the Middle East Airlines will increase its flights to Larnaca twice a week, every Thursday and...
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Ministry of Public Health announces additional results of returnees’ PCR tests, 59 coronavirus cases detected
The Ministry of Public Health, on Thursday, announced the results of PCR tests that were conducted on March 21, March 22, and March 23 at Beirut airport. According to the Ministry, 59 passengers have tested positive for coronavirus aboard the flights coming from Frankfurt, Adana, Basra, Cairo, London, Paris, Najaf, Damascus, Istanbul, Sharjah, Dubai, Milano,...
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AstraZeneca says COVID19 vaccine 76% effective in the new analysis, to seek U.S. approval
AstraZeneca’s said its COVID-19 vaccine was 76% effective in a new analysis of its U.S. trial – only a tad lower than the level in an earlier report this week criticised for using outdated data. Interim data published on Monday had put the vaccine’s efficacy rate at 79% but had not included more recent infections,...
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Germany extends liquidity aid for pandemic companies until yearend
Germany has extended its liquidity aid program for pandemic-hit companies until the end of this year, the finance and economy ministries said on Thursday as Europe’s largest economy is struggling to contain a third wave of coronavirus infections. The government also decided to lift the upper limit for loans in the emergency program to a...
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Belarus starts mass production of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine ministry
Belarus’ health ministry said on Thursday the country had started mass producing Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and planned to produce up to 500,000 doses of the shot per month. – Reuters
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The first batch of AstraZeneca vaccine arrives in Beirut
The National News Agency correspondent at Rafic Hariri International Airport stated that the first batch of AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Beirut.
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Merkel calls crisis meeting Wednesday over virus measures
Chancellor Angela Merkel has summoned the leaders of Germany’s 16 states to an unexpected crisis meeting on Wednesday amid a backlash over pandemic measures, the chief of her CDU party said. “The chancellor has invited the (regional leaders) at short notice for 11 o’clock today and I think that we will talk very critically there...