COVID-19 or Coronavirus has taken over the world in 2020. A global killer that has changed our lives forever.
The year 2020 and 2021 has been defined by one global pandemic which has swept the globe in a furiously frantic manner.
Killing over 1 million globally. It has infected global leaders like Boris Johnson, President Donald Trump and the average man and woman, ( who incidentally died from this curious disease). Now the race for the vaccine has begun.
Motivated by profit Pharmaceutical giants and global research centres are working night and day to patent various types of vaccines that have varying levels of immunity.
We also look through all the conspiracy theories surrounding the virus, and the Track and Trace app which many fear is another tool for governments to control the masses.
The world has not seen anything like this before, and most of the world have suffered. Some, on the other hand, have profited, the likes of Amazon and other billionaires saw their wealth grow significantly overnight.
The search for truth has never been more important and we haven’t been able to understand what the endgame is.
But if you are curiously inclined and love to be able to see through the truth, here at WTX News, we promise to bring you all the facts and figures and breakdown the elements so you can make up your mind.
France24 says US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Tuesday announced a deal to make its prospective antiviral Covid-19 pill available more cheaply in the world’s least-wealthy countries.
France24 says thousands of demonstrators marched on the New Zealand parliament to protest against Covid-19 restrictions, prompting a major police deployment.
The Independent says Double-jabbed vulnerable and elderly people are dying from Covid-19 due to the efficacy of the vaccine waning, a senior adviser has said.
The Daily Express says UK COVID-19 deaths have soared above 200 per day for the third day in a row, with new cases over 37,000, according to the latest daily data.
BBC News says More than 160 former world leaders and global figures have called on the UK and other rich countries to airlift millions of surplus vaccines to less-developed nations.
Arab News says China’s latest COVID-19 outbreak is increasingly likely to spread further, as authorities urged all regions to step up monitoring and called for a reduction in travel.
BBC News says the Covid pandemic will “go on for a year longer than it needs to” because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the WHO has said.
Australia lockdown to ease the world’s longest COVID-19 lockdowns as vaccinations rise in Melbourne. Melbourne lockdown has been one of the toughest. The city has…
The Daily Express says the stunning breakthrough was made by researchers at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).
The Independent says Unvaccinated pregnant women accounted for nearly a fifth of the most severely ill coronavirus patients in England in recent months.
Aljazeera says people in Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, ignored grey skies and drizzle on Monday to celebrate the end of almost four months of lockdown.
Aljazeera says tens of thousands of Vietnamese who once made a living in Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s COVID-19 epicentre, are returning to their home provinces.
The Daily Express says the vaccination programme also appears to have stalled, and with the cold weather meaning more people will choose to socialise indoors at restaurants and bars rather than outside, Covid cases are expected to rise.
