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Sunday, 21 Feb, 2021

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South Africa offers AstraZeneca jabs to AU
He also added that the flights from South Africa and Brazil to India are routed through Gulf countries, are not direct to India. It also has mutations in the receptor-binding domain of spike protein and has increased transmissibility.

New COVID-19 Cases Confirmed In Clare; 988 Nationally
A further three people have died after contracting coronavirus in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health has confirmed. All of the cases identified are directly associated with recent travel from Brazil, according to the Department of Health.

Power outages linger for millions as another icy storm looms
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price told CNN Tuesday night that she was been without power or water for around 38 hours. Deaths attributed to the storm have been recorded in Texas , Louisiana, Kentucky, North Carolina and Missouri.

Facebook bans all Australian news media sharing
Australia wants tech giants like Facebook and Google to pay for the content reposted from news outlets. Facebook went on to argue that Australian publishers benefit from sharing their stories.

Myanmar Woman Shot In Head During Anti-Coup Protest Dies
Both residents and protesters were forced to flee the area as security forces chased after them , The Associated Press reports. An anti-coup protester who was shot in the head during a February 9 demonstration in Naypyidaw died on Friday.

Biden addresses G7, Munich Security Conference
Biden also talked about cooperation in space exploration, including efforts to explore Mars. Where Trump called the European Union a foe, Biden held it up as a close partner.

Democrats introduce Biden immigration plan in Congress, promising ‘bold’ changes
But it was only partially reinstated, leaving the status of millions uncertain. " Congress must abolish the filibuster so the U.S. Applicants will have five years of temporary legal status, then they'll be allowed to apply for green cards.

Australian PM rejects Facebook ‘threat’, vows to make tech giants pay
In the UK, Julian Knight MP, who chairs the Commons media select committee, said the company was behaving like a bully. But Facebook's move to ban all Australian news content from its platform has taken the conflict to a whole new level.

COVID-19 variant confirmed in Toronto’s homeless shelter system
He said the Prairie provinces, in particular, have had "really scary spikes". "We are taking this very cautiously, very slowly". We also have 6 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 variant that originated in South Africa and 1 that originated from Brazil.

Log Cabin Republicans thank Donald Trump for 'standing up for family'
Trump adviser Jason Miller said an "earlier (version of the) statement was likely tougher". And subpoena former President Trump and get his sworn testimony.



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British Columbia has hit a one-day record for vaccinations as new preliminary data from residents of long-term care homes and health-care workers shows the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine reduces the risk of the virus within two to three weeks.

Australia is giving priority to hotel quarantine and border workers, front-line health-care workers and aged-care residents and staff.

The 84-year-old received the Pfizer jab today at Sydney's Castle Hill Medical Centre.

"Jane Malysiak has seen many historic days in Australia over the course of her more than 80 years of life", he said.

"She came here from Europe when she was 13 and she's built an unbelievable life in this country".

Flight MH604, bearing the Jalur Gemilang livery (pix) to symbolise the vaccine is for Malaysians, landed at 10.07am with the first batch of 312,390 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Extreme winter weather across the United States has delayed the shipment of almost 6 million vaccine doses this week, White House officials said on Friday.

Up to 4 million Australians are expected to receive a COVID-19 vaccine voluntarily by March, with Morrison and Paul Kelly, the country's chief medical officer, among a small group of Australians receiving the first inoculations.

The country's vaccination programme is starting months after other nations', following its provisional approval of the Pfizer product for use in January.

The first jabs come after hundreds of people took to the streets on Saturday to protest against having the vaccination.

A deputy is seen on the bodycam footage scolding the women for committing fraud to try to get COVID-19 vaccines.

"There was a very strong focus on the need for key leaders, not the parliament, not the cabinet, not even the leadership group, but a cross-party group, to provide that confidence", Mr Hunt said.

Its seven countries - the US, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan - promised Friday to share doses more fairly with worse-off countries.

"I will check that my department is not, but on my watch, until this issue is resolved, there will not be Facebook advertising", he said.

Mr Hunt accused Facebook of acting like "sovereign bullies", arguing it "won't get away with it".

It also would set aside $800 million to the National Health Service Corps to support primary health care clinicians in high-need areas and $331 million for Teaching Health Centers to expand the number of sites across the country.