Employees at Meta will have to show proof that they received a Covid-19 vaccine booster, with the company citing its effectiveness. Meta is now set to reopen its offices in March. Meta – which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and virtual reality company Oculus – will fully reopen its offices on …
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he tested positive for Covid-19 for the second time in under a year and will now carry out his duties from quarantine. López Obrador – who is fully vaccinated and received a booster shot in December – revealed the result of his …
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A shrinking number of Americans name Covid-19 among their top concerns, according to recent polling, which indicates greater worry over a lagging economy and four decade-high price inflation than the ongoing health crisis. Published on Monday, a new poll conducted by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public …
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Democratic New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is fully vaccinated and boosted, has tested positive for Covid-19 just a week after she was spotted partying without a face mask in Florida. Ocasio-Cortez’s office announced the news on Sunday evening and revealed that the congresswoman was experiencing symptoms for the virus …
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Germany’s plans to impose nationwide compulsory vaccination against Covid-19 likely won’t come to fruition any time soon, not due to lack of will but because of bureaucratic hurdles, media reports suggest. In November, then-designated chancellor Olaf Scholz told Germany’s ZDF broadcaster that he expected a nationwide vaccination mandate to be …
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All residents in Tianjin, China have been advised to not leave their homes until they receive a negative result in the latest city-wide testing for Covid. The decision comes after 20 cases were detected. China’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to Covid-19 is now being applied in the northern city of Tianjin, …
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has received backlash as well as fact-checks after she claimed during Friday’s oral arguments that more than 100,000 children were in “serious condition” from Covid-19. Sotomayor’s estimations during oral arguments on President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates were way off base, as fewer than 5,000 children …
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Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open legal appeal has copped fresh cynicism from some, while reports suggest that his December infection came after an exemption cut-off. Saturday’s disclosure by Djokovic’s legal team, which indicated that a December 16 diagnosis of Covid-19 was central to his medical exemption application to compete at the …
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Texas police are looking for a high school English teacher after she allegedly locked her Covid-19 positive child in a car trunk to limit exposure on the way to a testing facility. An arrest warrant for felony child endangerment was issued for Sarah Beam, 42, on Friday after her 13-year-old …
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Israel has lifted its strict Covid-19 travel ban against ‘high risk’ countries, such as the US and UK, acknowledging that the spread of the Omicron variant has rendered such restrictions obsolete. Nachman Ash, the director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Health, revealed on Thursday that travel would resume to and from …
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