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A Covid-19 vaccine does not provide full or immediate protection, which means it's still possible to get infected and test positive for the virus. Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts did. He tested positive after he got his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino, who coaches the men's team at Iona College in New York, also tested positive after getting his first dose. They could have tested positive for a few reasons. There's a lag between vaccination and protectionIt takes a few days to a few weeks for the vaccine to work, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. You could test positive before the vaccine kicked...

Thailand's largest industrial estate developer has suspended work on a $1 billion project in Myanmar due to fears that the military coup and possible international sanctions will drive investors away from the country. Amata had just begun construction on the 2,000-acre industrial complex outside Yangon in December but the development, including a new power plant, will be put on hold, chief marketing officer ViboonKromadit told reporters on Tuesday. The announcement is a sign of the impact that the military coup, which began on Monday with the detention of Aung San SuuKyi and other civilian leaders, could have on business activity in the country. "We and our clients are concerned about a...

The team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Wednesday, as part of their mission to investigate the origins of COVID-19, local media reported. The WHO team visited the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the state-owned Global Times reported. The team of WHO experts arrived in Wuhan on January 14 to investigate the origins of COVID-19, as the world's first cluster of infected patients were detected in the city in December 2019. The WHO team only began field work last week, after completing two weeks of quarantine upon arrival.The team has visited local hospitals where the first wave of COVID-19 patients were treated and...

China has arrested over 80 people for smuggling and supplying counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines, amid reports that some of the jabs have already made their way to Africa, the official media reported on Tuesday. Apart from the arrests, 3,000 doses of the fake vaccines were confiscated from the accused in a special drive that China has carried out to curb vaccine-related crimes, the Global Times reported. The raids were carried out in a joint action by police in Beijing and East China's Jiangsu and Shandong provinces, among other regions. The criminal activity was scattered across multiple cities, the report said. The suspects were profiting from the illegal manufacture and sale of the...

[Unicode] အခန်းပေါင်း ၄၀၀ ကျော်ပါဝင်တဲ့ နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းအဌားအိမ်ရာ မြနန္ဒာကို ဒီကနေ့ (ဇန်နဝါရီ ၂၈)ရက်မှာ စတင်ဖွင့်လှစ် လိုက်ပါပြီ။ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့၏ ကြီးကြပ်မှုဖြင့် ဆောက်လုပ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန မြို့ပြနှင့် အိမ်ရာဦးစီးဌာနမှ တည်ဆောက်သော...

[Unicode] လူနေအိမ်ခန်း (၄၄၈) ခန်းပါ (၈) ခန်းတွဲ (၅)ထပ်တိုက် (၁၄)လုံးနှင့် ဝန်ထမ်းအိမ်ရာနေ ပြည်သူများ၏ လူမှုစီးပွားဆိုင်ရာ များ အသုံးပြုနိုင်မည့် အခန်းပေါင်း (၂၈) ခန်း၊ စုစုပေါင်း (၄၇၆)ခန်း ပါဝင်သည့် မြနန္ဒာနိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်း အငှားအိမ်ရာကို ဇန်နဝါရီ ၂၈...

[Unicode] မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရင်းနှီးမြှုုပ်နှံမှုကော်မရှင်က နေရောင်ခြည်စွမ်းအင်သုံး လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အား ထုတ်လုပ်သည့် လုပ်ငန်းအပါအဝင် ရင်းနှီးမြှုုပ်နှံမှု လုပ်ငန်းအသစ် ၁၄ ခု ကို ခွင့်ပြုခဲ့ကြောင်း ဇန်နဝါရီ ၂၇ ရက်ကကျင်းပသည့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ...

China has begun using anal swabs to test those it considers to be at high risk of contracting Covid-19, state TV has reported. Officials took anal swabs from residents of neighbourhoods with confirmed Covid-19 cases in Beijing last week, according to the state broadcaster CCTV, while those in designated quarantine facilities have also had the tests. Small, localised outbreaks in recent weeks have resulted in multiple cities in northern China being sealed off from the rest of the country and prompted mass testing campaigns, which had mostly been conducted using throat and nose swabs. The anal swabs method “can increase the detection rate of infected people” as traces of the...

Ayurvedic medicine and the healing secrets of ancient India house some of the most potent wellness formulas in the world. It is thousands of years old, and one of the oldest surviving holistic healing systems ever to exist. Incorporate it in your life for better health and longevity. 1. Try to avoid sleeping with your head facing north and legs facing south – most other sleeping positions are fine for the most part. 2. When you do wake, rise with the sun! If you sleep by 10:00, this should be easy. 3. Oil therapy to beautify hair and skin. An Ayurvedic oil treatment can rewind aging and prom one elastic youthfulness which purifies skin and promotes a clear skin. Oil pulling...

It’s final. President Rodrigo Duterte will have his COVID-19 vaccine in private because he’s going to be injected in his buttocks, his spokesman Harry Roque said today. “He has said so. As he said, because he is going to be injected in the ass, it cannot be done in public,” Roque said in English and Filipino in his daily press briefing. Critics have encouraged Duterte to be vaccinated in public, just like other world leaders such as Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Vice President Leni Robredo, one of his vocal critics, had said that if the chief executive gets a public jab, Filipinos will be convinced of the efficacy...