Covid-19: Brazil approves final tests of J&J virus vaccine

BRASILIA, Aug 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian health regulators said they had approved Johnson & Johnson’s experimental vaccine against the new coronavirus for the final stage of clinical trials, the fourth vaccine to receive widespread testing in the hard-hit country. The US pharmaceutical company’s subsidiary Janssen will test the vaccine on…

Covid-19: Vaccine should be mandatory in Australia – PM

SYDNEY, Aug 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Australia should make any coronavirusvaccine compulsory for its 25 million citizens bar medical exemptions, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Wednesday, wading into a heated ethical debate. After reaching a deal for the country to manufacture a “promising” vaccinebeing developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, Morrison…

Ecuador says Chinese fishing trawlers turned off tracking system near Galapagos

QUITO, Aug 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ecuador reported that nearly half ofthe Chinese fishing boats that roam the Galapagos Islands have turned offtheir tracking systems, making it impossible to locate them. The Ecuadorian Navy detected 149 ships that had turned off theirtransponders, a device that allows authorities to know where they…

Covid-19: India misses target for food handouts to unregistered migrants

Millions of people fled the cities in India NEW DELHI, Aug 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Less than a third of India’s 80 million unregistered migrant workers who were hit by the country’s lengthy coronavirus lockdown received government food aid, official figures show. In May, India announced a food aid programme for…

Afghanistan: 14 rockets hit capital ahead of Independence Day, injuring 10

 t/10 Wounded as Rockets Hit Afghan Capital on Independence Day KABUL, Aug 19 (NNN-XINHUA) – Ten people, including four children and one woman, were wounded after 14 rockets struck in a diplomatic district and other neighborhoods in Kabul on Tuesday morning as the country is preparing to celebrate the 101st…

Covid-19: Latest global developments

PARIS, Aug 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Here are some of the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: – MORE THAN 774,000 DEATHS: The pandemic has killed at least 774,832 people worldwide since surfacing in China late last year. More than 21.9 million cases have been registered. The United States has recorded…

ADB approves $50m to finance PPP projects in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Aug 19 (NNN-BSS) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $50 million loan to the government of Bangladesh to fund public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects in the country. The assistance will help strengthen government capacity to develop PPP infrastructure projects and catalyze greater private sector infrastructure investments,”…

Popular Indian singer SP Balasubrahmanyam’s health improves, taken off the ventilator

Popular Indian playback singer SP Balasubrahmanyam who has sung thousands of songs in both South and North Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam. NEW DELHI, Aug 18 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Famous Indian playback singer and music composer S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, under treatment for COVID-19, was taken off the ventilator after his…

Covid-19: WHO says people in 20s, 30s, 40s increasingly driving pandemic

MANILA, Aug 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization said it was concerned that the novel coronavirus spread was being driven by people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, many of whom were unaware they were infected, posing a danger to vulnerable groups. WHO officials said this month the proportion…

UAE Official Says UAE-Israel Accord Not Directed At Iran

DUBAI, Aug 18 (NNN-WAM) – The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, said on Monday, the UAE’s peace accord with Israel was a sovereign decision that was not directed at Iran. “We say this and repeat it,” Gargash wrote on Twitter. “We do not…
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