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China’s Sinovac Boosted by Pfizer, AstraZeneca or J&J COVID Shots – study

Jan 24 (Reuters) – A third booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech or Johnson & Johnson increases antibody levels significantly in those who have previously received two doses of Sinovac’s (SVA.O) CoronaVac shot, a study has found.

The study found that CoronaVac received the strongest boost from a viral vector or RNA shot, including against the Delta and Omicron coronavirus variants, researchers from Brazil and Oxford University said on Monday.

China-based Sinovac’s vaccine uses an inactivated version of a coronavirus strain that was isolated from a patient in China. It is currently approved in more than 50 countries including Brazil, China, Argentina, South Africa, Oman, Malaysia, Indonesia and Turkey. read more

“This study provides important options for policymakers in the many countries where inactivated vaccines … have been used,” said Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and study lead.

However, another study in December found that Sinovac’s two-dose shot followed by a booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine showed a lower immune response against the Omicron variant compared with other strains. read more

Viral vector vaccines such as the ones developed by AstraZeneca-Oxford (AZN.L) and J&J (JNJ.N) use a weakened version of another virus to deliver genetic instructions for making proteins from the virus against which protection is sought.

Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech’s (22UAy.DE) mRNA vaccines deliver a genetic transcript with instructions for making viral proteins to teach the body how to defend against infections.

A third dose of CoronaVac also increased antibodies, but the results were better when a different vaccine was used, according to the latest study that included 1,240 volunteers from the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Salvador.

Antibody levels were low before the booster doses, with only 20.4% of adults aged 18-60 and 8.9% of adults aged over 60 having detectable levels of neutralising antibodies. These were seen to significantly increase across every booster vaccine regimen, according to the study, which was published in the Lancet medical journal on Friday.

Reporting by Aby Jose Koilparambil and Pushkala Aripaka in Bengaluru; Editing by Ramakrishnan M.

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Colombia: Bike Champ Bernal Hospitalized After Training Crash

Colombian bike rider Egan Bernal is “stable” after he was taken to hospital following a crash in training, his Ineos Grenadiers team have confirmed.

Bernal, who won the 2019 Tour de France and last year’s Giro d’Italia, was training near his hometown in Colombia.

“He was accompanied to hospital by team medical staff and was conscious upon arrival,” a statement from the British Ineos team said.

“He is stable and undergoing further assessment.”

There are reports he crashed into a parked bus

In a statement the Clinica Universidad de La Sabana in Bogota said Bernal would undergo surgery later on Monday.

It said Bernal suffered “cervical and thoracic trauma, closed chest trauma, skeletal muscle trauma and lower limb trauma” in the accident.

The 25-year-old recently extended his contract with Ineos Grenadiers to 2026.

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Cameroon: Eight Dead, Dozens Injured in Crush to Attend Africa Cup Football Match

At least eight people have been killed and dozens more injured in a crush outside an Africa Cup of Nations football match in Cameroon.

Videos showed crowds of screaming football fans being crushed at the entry gates to the Paul Biya stadium in the capital Yaounde.

Witnesses described chaotic scenes outside the ground as thousands of fans struggled to get access.

Of the 38 people who were injured, seven are in a serious condition.

One child is among the dead, according to officials quoted by the AFP news agency.

The stadium has a capacity of 60,000, but because of Covid restrictions it was not meant to be more than 80% full for the game on Monday.

Match officials were quoted as saying that some 50,000 people were trying to attend.

Danish journalist Buster Emil Kirchner told the BBC he saw “a lot of chaos” by the stadium’s gates as fans clamoured to enter the ground.

“It was hectic – people running, people climbing fences, people breaking through the barricades,” he said, adding he saw many people without tickets trying to “force themselves in”.

Journalist Leocadia Bongben told the BBC’s Newsday programme that she saw commotion coming from one of the fan zone areas outside the stadium.

“People started shouting. A minute after that an ambulance came to the stadium, but when we got to the place the police would not allow us to get close to where the stampede was,” she said.

“It’s really quite a sad situation that people go to watch a game and they end up dying there.”

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Nick Cavell, a producer for BBC Africa, was at the match and said news of the crush did not seem to filter through to the crowd until there were reports on social media.

Discarded shoes and other debris was strewn around the entrance of the stadium, he said.

Nurse Olinga Prudence told the Associated Press that some of the injured were in a “desperate condition”.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) said in a statement that it was investigating the situation.

The last 16 match between Cameroon and Comoros took place despite the incident and ended with a 2-1 win for the hosts.

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Pfizer Developing Annual Covid Vaccination, Booster Shot Protection, Reinfection Rate, More

Pfizer Working  on Annual  Covid Vaccination

 

 

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. Source: Twitter.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. Source: Twitter.

(January 23, 2022 / JNS) Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is working on developing a one-shot annual vaccine to replace its current vaccine, which loses its efficacy after three to six months and requires multiple booster shots, company CEO Albert Bourla told Israel’s Channel 12 on Saturday night.

He said that getting jabbed every four or five months “will not be a good scenario” and that having an annual shot, similar to the flu vacccine, “from a public health perspective, it is an ideal situation.”

The CEO noted that Pfizer is still on target to have an Omicron-specific vaccine by March, and that the company is also evaluating other types of offerings, including taking a fourth dose of the existing vaccine, increasing vaccine dosage and even a hybrid Delta-Omicron shot.

“We want to cover all possible scenarios so we can protect, but of course time is ticking,” Bourla said.

Bourla told Channel 12 that while he does not believe the virus will be eradicated but will be “with us for the years to come,” he does expect it to become more manageable, due to the tools developed by Pfizer and others.

“I think we should be able to [live our] normal lives, and only if a variant like Omicron is a really different game, this is when we will have anomalies that we will be able to control in a few months,” Bourla said.

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Booster Shots Offer Protection

New studies released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday showed that a booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine provides robust protection against hospitalization and severe disease.

The findings, while promising, come as the U.S. is seeing a massive spike in infections due to the omicron variant, which is overwhelming hospitals throughout the country.

Cuts emergency department visits: One analysis found getting a third dose of an mRNA vaccine was at least 90 percent effective at preventing COVID-19-associated hospitalization, both during the delta and omicron periods.

A third shot reduced a person’s risk of an emergency department and urgent care visit by 94 percent during delta and 82 percent during omicron.

Fully vaccinated: Despite the findings, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the agency is not changing the definition of fully vaccinated, but will “pivot the language” to focus on being “up to date.”

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Covid reinfection: how likely are you to catch virus multiple times?

Omicron may have affected risk in England, but other factors could include vaccination and severity of previous infection

Anecdotal reports of Covid reinfection in the UK are growing, including people testing positive just weeks apart in December and January, or having had the virus three or even four times. Children are also being seen with reinfections. We take a look at the science behind catching Covid multiple times.

What is a reinfection?

Reinfection figures tend to refer to the detection of a second, or subsequent, Covid infection, regardless of the variant involved. The risk of reinfection is likely to depend on a range of factors: for example, data suggests it is higher in unvaccinated people and potentially in those whose previous infection was more mild with a lower immune response.

It also depends on the variant: one expert said the risk of reinfection with Omicron soon after a first Omicron infection would be lower than Delta followed by Omicron, and how long ago someone was vaccinated. Experts say the dose to which someone is exposed may also be important.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) uses the definition of a possible reinfection as a case 90 days or more after a previous confirmed Covid infection, in part because it excludes those who simply shed the virus for longer after infection.

How many reinfections have there been?
According to the latest figures for England from the UKHSA, from the start of the pandemic up to 9 January this year there were 425,890 possible reinfections, with 109,936 found in the week ending 9 January, accounting for almost 11% of all cases that week.

Very few possible reinfections are “confirmed” as that requires genetic sequencing. What’s more, with few people in the community having access to tests in the first wave, many first infections may not have been counted.

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UK Public urged to sign up for drug trial

Two pills designed to treat Covid have completed clinical trials, but now volunteers are needed for a study into who would benefit the most from the antiviral drugs. Molnupiravir and paxlovid have shown promising results at reducing the risk of serious illness or death. They are part of a UK study which is looking for over-50s and younger people with underlying health conditions to take part.

 

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Haiti: One Dead as 5.3 Earthquake Hits the Ravaged Nation

Reuters- A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti’s southern peninsula on Monday, the US Geological Survey reported, killing one person and sending panicked residents flooding into the streets in the city of Les Cayes just six months after a major tremor in the same area

The quake’s epicentre was 3km (1.9 miles) from the Anse-à-Veau, near the city of Les Cayes, the USGS reported. It was short but strong, and was felt in the capital of Port-au-Prince, according to a Reuters witness.

Children ran out of school buildings in Les Cayes and “people were terrified,” even though there was no damage, according to one resident. Aftershocks continued to be felt around the country over an hour after the quake hit.

Jean Robert Léger, a resident of the town of Pestel on the southern peninsula, said the impact appeared to be minimal.

“In Pestel, there is not so much damage,” he said by phone. “We see that the houses next to the sea that were already damaged have collapsed some more.”

Haiti’s civil protection chief Jerry Chandler said in a text message that no damage had been reported.

“All reports from the departments mention the panic the tremors caused but no damage thus far,” he wrote.

More than 2,000 people were killed in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in August that left tens of thousands of homes in ruins and forced many families to sleep outside.

The poorest country in the Americas, Haiti is still recovering from a 2010 quake that killed more than 200,000 people.

 

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Bahamas: Task Force Established to Find Thousands of Missing Students

As schools in the Bahamas reopen today using a hybrid face-to-face learning environment, the Ministry of Education and Technical and Vocational Training has established a committee to find thousands of students who did not attend classes for almost two years.

The task force was announced by Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin in a national address last evening.

She declared that The Bahamas was in an education emergency as the missing students span preschool to grade 12.

 

“The last two years have been unrelenting disruptions in education. The fully virtual learning experience has proven to be difficult for students, teachers and parents,” Hanna-Martin stated.

The task force has been given 14 days to find the missing students.

Representatives from the Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development, Office of the Attorney General, the Bahamas Christian Council, Ministry of Health and Wellness, BTVI, National Training Agency, representatives of the Bahamas Educators Managerial Union, Bahamas Union of Teachers, and Bahamas Education Counsellors and Allied Workers Union are on the task force.

Additionally, diagnostic testing will be done on all students to determine the extent of learning loss.

Hanna-Martin announced that Learning Recovery Committee was established “to provide recommendations and develop strategies for appropriate responses and learning recovery programs, based on the extent of learning loss of each child.”

The government has also commissioned the University of The Bahamas to conduct a study to identify causative factors for learning outcomes.

Since taking office in September 2021, Hanna-Martin has been trying to find ways to help Bahamian students affected by learning loss.

She said the government will do all in its power to keep schools open since it is the best way for students to have equal access to education.

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Cruise Company Goes Bust, Leaves 700 Florida Bound Passengers and Crew Stranded in Bahamas

MailOnline- A cruise ship with 700 passengers and crew has diverted from its scheduled port call in Miami to flee from a warrant to impound the vessel over $1.2 million in unpaid fuel bills.

The Crystal Symphony, which was scheduled to return to Miami on Saturday to end a 14-day Caribbean cruise, instead veered off to Bimini in the Bahamas, where it docked on Saturday night.

Elio Pace, a British musician performing aboard the Crystal Symphony, told DailyMail.com that there were about 300 passengers aboard the ship as well as 400 crew, a staffing ratio that reflects the struggle of cruise lines to attract passengers in the pandemic

Crystal Cruises’ parent organization, Genting Hong Kong, had filed to wind up the company, warning that it will ‘imminently be unable to pay its debts as they fall due.’

Now, the passengers are scrambling to re-book their onward travel after their arrival in south Florida was delayed by at least a day,  and the crew are facing the grim prospect of losing their jobs as the cruise line’s parent company faces liquidation.

‘Every one of these people are trying to reschedule their flights,’ said Pace, who said that the crew had done their best to keep guests informed and comfortable as the bizarre events unfolded. ‘There’s no panic, there’s no tantrums going on, they’re taking it in their stride.’

The Crystal Symphony is seen docked in Bimini on Saturday night after diverting from its scheduled call in Miami to avoid an arrest warrant under admiralty law over unpaid fuel bills of $1.2 million

The Crystal Symphony is seen docked in Bimini on Saturday night after diverting from its scheduled call in Miami to avoid an arrest warrant under admiralty law over unpaid fuel bills of $1.2 million

Elio Pace, a British musician performing on board the Crystal Symphony, told DailyMail.com that there are currently about 300 passengers aboard the ship, which can carry up to 900, as well as 400 crew

Elio Pace, a British musician performing on board the Crystal Symphony, told DailyMail.com that there are currently about 300 passengers aboard the ship, which can carry up to 900, as well as 400 crew

Instead of returning to Miami as scheduled, the cruise ship diverted to Bimini, where passengers will take a ferry to Fort Lauderdale on Sunday morning

Instead of returning to Miami as scheduled, the cruise ship diverted to Bimini, where passengers will take a ferry to Fort Lauderdale on Sunday morning

The Crystal Symphony left Miami on January 8 for its two-week cruise, and everything unfolded smoothly until Wednesday, when Crystal Cruises unexpectedly announced that it was suspending operations at least through April.

Malaysian tycoon Lim Kok Thay controls the Genting Group

Malaysian tycoon Lim Kok Thay controls the Genting Group

‘This was an extremely difficult decision but a prudent one given the current business environment and recent developments with our parent company, Genting Hong Kong,’ said Jack Anderson, Crystal’s president, in a statement on the decision to cease all cruises.

Pace told DailyMail.com that the news stunned the passengers and crew, but that operations continued as normal, and that he even delivered his musical performance as scheduled.

‘That was quite extraordinary, to be in a position to have to perform to people, with them knowing the cruise line has gone into liquidation,’ he said. ‘This was a shock to everybody when we got the announcement on Wednesday.’

Nearly concurrent with Genting Hong Kong’s filing to unwind, fuel supplier Peninsula Petroleum Far East filed a complaint in Florida seeking an arrest warrant for the Crystal Symphony under US admiralty law.

Crystal Cruises' parent organization, Genting Hong Kong, has filed to wind up the company, warning in the filing that it will 'imminently be unable to pay its debts as they fall due'

Crystal Cruises’ parent organization, Genting Hong Kong, has filed to wind up the company, warning in the filing that it will ‘imminently be unable to pay its debts as they fall due’

Peninsula alleged that Genting’s subsidiaries had reneged on a total of $4.6 million in fuel payments, with $1.2 million alone attributed to the Crystal Symphony.

On Friday, Judge Darrin Gayles of the U.S. District Court in Southern Florida approved the warrant, and the Crystal Symphony now faces impoundment if it enters any US port.

Instead of continuing to Miami as planned, the ship veered east to Bimini. The Genting Group owns Resorts World Bimini, and the Crystal Symphony is flagged in the Bahamas.

The diversion came as a shock to passengers, said Pace, who boarded the ship on Tuesday and had expected to continue delivering guest performances through next month.

Now, the passengers are waiting overnight for a ferry to arrive at 8.30am on Saturday, to take them on a two-hour trip to Fort Lauderdale.

‘For me it’s a headache, but for the crew, for the staff, the brilliant staff of this gorgeous luxury liner, I feel more sorry for them,’ Pace said. ‘I’m put out, but they’ve lost their jobs for the foreseeable future.’

Pace put the blame for the fiasco squarely on the Genting Group, which is part of a bigger conglomerate that also includes Genting Malaysia and Genting Singapore.

The company, controlled by Malaysian tycoon Lim Kok Thay, has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

But Pace questioned why the ownership group couldn’t pay what they owed or face the consequences in Miami, in order to avoid the massive inconvenience to their guests.

‘They can afford to look after these people,’ he said. ‘On a human level, why do people behave like this, why can’t they help?’

‘I can’t understand why these multi-billionaires don’t care, they just don’t care,’ he added.

The Genting Group owns the Resorts World leisure park chain as well as 30 casinos across the U.K.

The company’s finances were tipped into ruin after the German government this week rejected its request to draw a $88 million backstop facility related to the MV Werften shipyard in northeastern Germany.

German officials blamed Genting for refusing to contribute 10 percent to a $678 million bailout plan that would protect 1,900 jobs at the shipyard.

The shipyard filed for bankruptcy, and the events triggered the insolvency application Monday of another shipyard it owns in Germany, Lloyd-Werft in Bremerhaven.

Genting reported a $238 million net loss for the period ending June 2021, as compared to a $742.6 loss million for the same period in 2020.

Genting Hong Kong reportedly halted payments on debts of almost $3.4 billion in 2020.

‘The Company and the Group have no access to any further liquidity under any of Group’s debt documents and the Company’s available cash balances are expected to run out on or around end of January 2022 according to the Company’s cashflow forecasts,’ Genting said in its Wednesday filing.

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WORLD VIEW: EU, US Gear Up for Russia-Ukraine Invasion, More Floyd Cops on Trial, Afghanistan Tragedy, More

Jan. 24, 2022

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  • And for a deeper understanding of the crisis over Ukraine, an analysis by John Daniszewski, an AP vice president and expert on Eastern Europe, explains how it’s nothing less than a showdown of two world views that could upend Europe.
  • The crisis, Daniszewski writes, carries echoes of the Cold War and resurrects an idea left over from the 1945 Yalta Conference: that the West should respect a Russian sphere of influence in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Jamaica: 2nd Court Date for Haitian Senator Accused in Moise Killing

Former Haitian senator John Joel Joseph who was accused in connection with the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, has received a second court date for February, according to his attorney, Donahue Martin.

Joseph, his wife and two children appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court in Jamaica on Thursday and were remanded until February 15th.  They were arrested in a pre-dawn police operation on January 15th, in Warminster District, St Elizabeth.  At the time of the arrest the family was occupying two houses  in the rural community.

Martin told the Jamaica Observer that: “The indication to the court was for discussions to be had,”  adding that “I can’t comment beyond that.

“The matter has some amount of sensitivity to it and as a result my comments have to be very limited”.

Joseph is the second suspect to be arrested in Jamaica. He arrived here illegally by boat last December, along with his family members and is one of three key suspects who were being sought by law enforcement authorities in Haiti.  Joseph is an opponent of the Tet Kale party to which Moïse belonged.

Last October, Jamaican authorities arrested former Colombian soldier Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, who was detained in Panama after being denied permission to remain in Jamaica. There is no extradition treaty between Haiti and Jamaica

Palacio was recently extradited to the United States and has been being charged with conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States and with providing material support resulting in death, knowing or intending that such material support would be used to prepare for or carry out the conspiracy to kill or kidnap.

Moise was killed at his private residence on July 7 last year and more than 40 people, including 18 former Colombian soldiers, have been arrested in connection with the assassination.

On Thursday, the United States Department of Justice said that a dual Haitian-Chilean citizen had been arrested on charges of his alleged involvement in the assassination.

In a statement, the DOJ said that Rodolphe Jaar, 49, had been charged with conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States and providing material support resulting in death, knowing or intending that such material support would be used to prepare for or carry out the conspiracy to kill or kidnap.

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Nova Scotia: Prince Andrew High School to be Renamed

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN

 

Prince Andrew High School in Dartmouth will be renamed based on submissions from the general public and students. The regional center for education will have final approval.

(CNN)The Prince Andrew High School in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, will be renamed as the sex abuse civil case against the British royal continues moving forward in the United States, school officials say.

“We are changing the name to move in a different direction due to the negative reports about Prince Andrew,” school principal Craig Campbell told CNN in an email. “We hope to build our identity as a positive, supportive school community with a name to match.”
Local residents will have a chance to submit name suggestions to a six-person renaming committee that includes students, staff and community members. The top three names will then be recommended to the Halifax Regional Centre for Education, which will have final approval.

Prince Andrew still has options in his sex abuse civil case. But none look good.

Prince Andrew still has options in his sex abuse civil case. But none look good.
The school’s decision follows a ruling from a New York judge earlier this month that a civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew may move forward.
The 61-year-old royal is being sued by Virginia Giuffre, who alleges she was trafficked by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and forced to perform sex acts with the prince at the age of 17. Prince Andrew has vigorously denied those claims.
The allegations against the prince have tarnished his public standing and prompted other members of the royal family to distance themselves from the Duke of York.
Most recently, Prince Andrew was stripped of his honorary military titles and charities. A royal source confirmed to CNN’s Max Foster Prince Andrew will also no longer use the style “His Royal Highness” in any official capacity.
The Canadian school joins a lengthy list of institutions that have decided to remove ties to controversial namesakes in recent years.
Across the United States, school boards and districts have opted to find new names for schools named after Confederate leaders or other public figures — such as actor Bill Cosby, who saw his name removed from buildings, workshops and a professorship as a criminal trial against him unfolded.

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