Coronavirus
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Society PhilippinesLockdown Leads to This Country’s Largest Bike Lane Development
When citizens had to trade public transport for cycling during the corona lockdown, Philippine authorities seized the opportunity to create a vast and safe network of bike lanes across the country - all in less than a year.
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Health USARecord Number of Vaccines Delivered to Developing Countries
The U.N.-backed dose-sharing initiative, Covax, delivered a record number of coronavirus vaccine doses in the last month of 2021: over 309 million doses were delivered to over 70 countries in December, roughly a third of all deliveries last year in a single month.
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Health USAThis Pill Fights Off COVID-19, Including the Omicron Variant
The American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation Pfizer announced that its antiviral pill developed to treat Covid-19 should be effective against the Omicron variant, thus counting as a useful tool to prevent hospitals from overflowing.
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Society
Society EthiopiaChild Workers Get a Unique Second Chance at Education
Child labor, conflict, poverty and Covid-related closures stopped many children in Ethiopia from completing a typical school progression - but thanks to a speed-education program, the same children now have a second chance at getting a formal education and rejoining their peers.
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Health USACorona: Antiviral Pill Can Soon Be Accessible to Even the Poorest Countries
A pharmaceutical giant based in New York, United States, will share its formula for the Covid-19 pill it is currently developing so the world’s poorest nations can manufacture the treatment at a much lower cost in an effort to stop the pandemic.