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Japan will ease entry restrictions on business travellers for stays of up to three days in a bid to revive economic activity after visits from abroad ground to a halt due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Thursday (Oct 22). The government is planning to relax curbs for people from 30 countries and regions with which Japan has strong business ties including China, South Korea and Taiwan, the Yomiuri said, citing unidentified government sources. The plan will come into effect next month, the newspaper said. Japan is looking at gradually reopening its borders to visitors from overseas, starting with business travel, after it imposed some of the world's strictest...

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A volunteer in Brazil's trial of AstraZeneca's experimental coronavirus vaccine has died, the Brazilian health agency Anvisa announced on Wednesday, but organizers said there was no reason to stop the trial -- an indication that the death is not linked to the vaccine. Anvisa said that it was notified of the death on Monday but the International Evaluation and Security Committee overseeing the trial recommended that the trial continue. It was not clear whether the volunteer received the vaccine or a placebo shot as part of the trial, and Anvisa said no more information was being released for reasons of medical privacy. "All significant medical incidents, whether participants are in the...

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  The coronavirus will be around for “evermore” as it is unlikely it will be eradicated, a British scientist on the government’s advisory committee for the pandemic said on Wednesday, although a vaccine would help improve the situation. Britain, like other countries in Europe, is currently in the grip of a resurgence in COVID-19 infections, with much of the country under local restrictions and more than 21,000 daily cases reported on Tuesday. “We are going to have to live with this virus for evermore. There is very little chance that it’s going to become eradicated,” John Edmunds, a member of Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), told...

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Five people have died after getting flu shots in South Korea in the past week, authorities said, raising concerns over the vaccine’s safety just as the seasonal inoculation programme is expanded to head off potential COVID-19 complications. Authorities said there was no reason to believe the deaths were linked to the vaccine but an investigation, including post mortems, was underway. “It makes it hard for us to put out a categorical statement,” Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip told a briefing on Wednesday about the deaths, which include a 17-year-old boy and a man in his 70s. Coming just weeks after the rollout of the national vaccine programme was suspended over...

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  Gaze in awe at the first poster for the upcoming action fantasy movie, Jiu Jitsu, has now been released to thunderous applause. Starring Nicolas Cage, Alain Moussi, Frank Grillo, Juju Chan, and Tony Jaa, the poster, that looks like a shameless throwback to the 1990s, features its principal cast in various battle-ready poses against a neon-blue background and gives away very little about the movie itself. It is a bit of a shame that the poster has decided to take such a secretive approach to the wider plot of Jiu Jitsu, as the synopsis reads like every B-movie fan's wet-dream. Every six years, an ancient order of expert Jiu Jitsu fighters face a fearsome alien invader in a battle...

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A woman in a village in Myanmar near the Three Pagodas border crossing in Sangkhlaburi district has been confirmed infected with Covid-19, according to an official report from Myanmar. The report said the 22-year-old woman was admitted to Phayathonezu Hospital after developing coronavirus symptoms. She had previously travelled to Yangon. Samples of her saliva were sent to Yangon Hospital for testing. The hospital on Monday confirmed the woman had been infected with Covid-19. She was then transferred to another hospital in Phayathonezu township for treatment. Officials were looking for people who had been in contact with her, and they would be quarantined for 14 days for...

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The row of 1960s-built houses with untidy gardens on a quiet cul-de-sac near Richmond upon Thames appears to have little in common with Ecuador’s red-brick embassy in Knightsbridge, where Julian Assange spent seven years in hiding, just across the road from Harrods. The unassuming suburban dwellings also have little in common with the site where the Queen was born in central London, or Sexy Fish, a seafood restaurant where diners sit among Damien Hirst mermaid sculptures. The properties, however, all form part of a secretive £5.5bn real estate empire owned by one of the world’s wealthiest heads of state, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United...

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  Nearly 60,000 people have been injected with China's COVID-19 vaccines so far and no one has reported severe adverse reactions, a Chinese official told a press conference on Tuesday. Tian Baoguo, an official from the Ministry of Science and Technology, told reporters that China is leading vaccine development with a total of 13 vaccines in clinical trials. Among them, four adenovirus vector and inactivated vaccine candidates have entered phase III trials with volunteers spread across ten countries. "In the earlier stages of clinical trials in China, we identified some mild adverse reactions, including pain and swelling at the site of the injection and a transient fever," Tian told...

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Half of India's population may have had Covid-19 by February, govt panel estimates  At least half of India's 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus by next February, helping slow the spread of the disease, a member of a federal government committee tasked with providing projections said on Monday (Oct 19). India has so far reported 7.55 million cases of the coronavirus and is second only to the United States in terms of total infections. But Covid-19 infections are decreasing in India after a peak in mid-September, with 61,390 new cases reported on average each day, according to a Reuters tally. "Our mathematical model estimates that around 30...

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More than half of Covid-19 patients discharged from hospital still experienced symptoms of breathlessness, fatigue, anxiety and depression for two to three months after their initial infection, according to the findings of a small UK study. The research, led by scientists at Britain's Oxford University, looked at the long-term impact of Covid-19 in 58 patients hospitalised with the pandemic disease. It found that some patients have abnormalities in multiple organs after being infected with the novel coronavirus and that persistent inflammation caused problems for some for months. The study has not been peer-reviewed by other scientists but was published before review on the MedRxiv...

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