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Sales of Fake COVID-19 Vaccines Expand to Six Countries
Following a research by Kaspersky researchers, unverified COVID-19 vaccines including three major COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Moderna, are beginning to make sales on darknet between $250 and $1,200 with crypto currency. According to the researchers, advertisements by sellers for these vaccines were found in 15 different marketplaces examined on the darknet with majority of…
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US Death Toll Drops Below 1,000 First Time in Months
The United States has recorded fewer than 1,000 deaths in a day from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. According to new data, in the last 24 hours, 749 people died from the coronavirus, far below the peak of 4,473 deaths recorded on January 12. The US is the country worst affected by the coronavirus…
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Antibodies From a Covid-19 Variant May Offer Cross-Protection
South African scientists are suggesting that the antibodies triggered by exposure to the country’s coronavirus variant might likely prevent infection by other variants of the virus. If the study is successfully peer-reviewed, it offers hope that COVID-19 vaccines based on the South African variant (501Y.V2) could protect against the multiple mutations circulating in different parts…
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Hope For Increase In Box Office Sales As New York Reopens Cinemas
Authorities recently announced that New York City cinemas could reopen on March 5 after nearly a year owing to the global pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic drove down box office sales by more than 70% globally last year – and more than 80% in the US and Canada, historically the world’s biggest market. Unfortunately, dozens of…
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Facial Recognition Technology Soon To Become The Future of Banking
A Nigeria-based Access Bank has announced it is set to unveil a new contactless payment technology that leverages facial recognition and AI. The face recognition payment system allows the platform to identify and verify the user without inputting passwords. The recognition system matches the unique facial dimensions of the customer against the BVN image to authenticate the…
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Interpol Seizes Fake Coronavirus Vaccines in China and South Africa
International police agency has revealed that 400 vials of vaccine doses were recovered from a warehouse in South Africa. The international police agency said in a statement on Wednesday that 400 vials, equivalent to about 2,400 doses, containing the fake vaccine were found at a warehouse in Germiston outside Johannesburg in South Africa, where officers…
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3.9M COVAX in Nigeria: Ogun Gets 100,000 Doses
Of the 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine received by the Federal Government, a total of 50,000 has been delivered to Ogun state. The governor, who received the vaccines at the Governor’s office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, after the arrival of the state team led by Commissioner of Health, Dr Tomi Coker said another batch…
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New Research Finds Men More Likely To Die From Covid-19
According to a preliminary analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO) carried out in 28 African countries, women are slightly less likely to die from COVID-19 than men. The analysis which is based on gender-sensitive COVID-19 epidemiological data provided by countries revealed that women account for around 41 per cent of COVID-19 cases but with…
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China Sets Economic Growth Target Above 6%
The Chinese government is aiming for an economic growth rate above 6% in 2021, after only managing a 2.3% growth in 2020. The second largest economy in the world is setting this target to mark its return to strong growth after the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The economy led a sharp 6.8% contraction in…
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Rwanda Becomes First African Country To Receive Pfizer Vaccine
On Wednesday, February 3, 2020, Rwanda became the first African country to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from the COVAX initiative. According to the Ministry of Health, a flight carrying 240,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India landed at the Kigali International Airport in the morning hours of Wednesday…