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The report said that the Western Pacific was the least hit, with life expectancy falling just 0.1 year. Geneva: Covid-19 cut global life expectancy by almost two years when it raged from 2019 to 2021, wiping out a decade of progress, the World Health Organization said Friday. “The Covid-19 pandemic reversed the trend of steady…
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Current vaccines should still have some benefit against new variants: Dr Aaron Glatt (Representational) New York: The so-called FLiRT variants of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that cause COVID-19 have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according to the World Health Organization The moniker FLiRT is an acronym for the locations of the…
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File picture of a nurse holding vials of AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 | Photo Credit: AP AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” since the pandemic. The company also said it would proceed to withdraw the vaccine Vaxzevria’s marketing authorisations…
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