Real name: B.1.617 – now divided into B.1.617.1; B.1.617.2; B.1.617.3 When and where was it discovered? The variant was first reported by the Indian government in February 2021. But the first cases appear to date back to October 2020. Its presence in the UK was first announced by Public Health England on April 15. There have since been … Read more
Cricketer Steve Smith and wife Dani Willis sign a lucrative brand ambassador deal – as he’s trapped overseas amid the Covid crisis in India By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:31 BST, 7 May 2021 | Updated: 07:31 BST, 7 May 2021 Steve Smith has hit headlines multiple times over the last few … Read more
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‘Abs for days!’ Cricket WAG and mother-of-three Candice Warner shows off her washboard stomach during a gruelling gym workout By Demeter Stamell and Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:11 BST, 7 May 2021 | Updated: 04:11 BST, 7 May 2021 Candice Warner showed off her amazing body in a workout video posted to … Read more
Relieved cricket WAG Dani Willis looks in high spirits during a phone call in Bondi… as her husband Steve Smith is flown out of Covid-stricken India to a luxury Maldives paradise By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:27 BST, 7 May 2021 | Updated: 01:27 BST, 7 May 2021 The Australia’s cricket stars … Read more
Nepal is seeing its coronavirus cases soar amid fears that it could soon face a crisis on par with neighbouring India. The impoverished Himalayan nation reported 8,659 cases on Wednesday along with 58 deaths – both record totals, though they are almost certainly under-estimates. It means Nepal now has around 230 cases per million people, … Read more
Shares for vaccine makers fell sharply Thursday on the heels of the Biden administration’s Wednesday announcement it will support a global push to waive intellectual property protections for COVID-19 shots. Among companies with COVID-19 vaccines, shares of Pfizer fell 1.7 percent and were among the biggest weights on the benchmark S&P 500 index before rebounding … Read more
The scientist who developed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has hit out at the Biden administration’s support for waiving intellectual property protections for coronavirus shots. Suspending patent enforcement for vaccines ‘will not increase the number of doses we will have available within the next 12 months,’ Dr Özlem Türeci, Chief Medical Officer at Pfizer partner BioNTech, told … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally classified a coronavirus variant that emerged in India as a ‘variant of interest’ (VOI) on Wednesday. Known as B.1.617, the variant has become the most common in the Asian country, making up an estimated two percent of all cases, according to outbreak.info. It has been called … Read more