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span.cdheadline-text
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        color:#1F497D;}
span.EmailStyle95
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span.ie-custom-caption
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span.EmailStyle102
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der-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.nicozdiamond.co.zw/"><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW;text-decoration:none'> </span><span lang=EN-ZW style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=768 height=254 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D70456.05221FE0"></span><span lang=EN-ZW style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'> </span></a></span><span class=style30><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p></td><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.05pt'><td width=914 colspan=4 valign=top style='width:685.15pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.05pt'><td width=914 colspan=4 rowspan=3 valign=top style='width:685.15pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:10.05pt'><h1 style='line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Zimbabwe COVID19 Update<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>COVID-19 update: As at 14 February 2021, Zimbabwe had 35 172 confirmed cases, including 30 601 recoveries and 1 400 deaths<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img border=0 width=682 height=913 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D70456.369C7200" alt=Image></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:20.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>South Africa registered a further 1,102 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the cumulative total to 1,492,909. A further 195 Covid-19-related deaths were reported, bringing the total to 48,094 deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The US recorded the lowest daily number of new coronavirus infections since 25 October, before a holiday season surge sent case numbers soaring.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is hoping to draw up plans to lift national pandemic <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-15/u-k-s-johnson-aims-to-ease-lockdown-with-schools-back-first" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>restrictions</span></a> on socialising, shopping and travelling to work, including possible target dates for when the curbs will be eased.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Germany tightened its borders to halt more infectious variants spreading, prompting Austria’s government to warn against “excessive” steps. Austria won’t reopen restaurants, bars, and cafes before the Easter holiday. In Italy, a health ministry adviser called for a new lockdown, citing the rise in virus cases linked to new strains.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>New Zealand imposed a three-day shutdown on Auckland with the discovery of several local cases, bringing a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-14/new-zealand-gets-pandemic-reality-check-as-auckland-locked-down" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>halt</span></a> to the country’s summer of unrestricted movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>WHO clears Astra vaccine for emergency use </span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The World Health Organisation cleared AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, adding its official approval to a shot that’s expected to speed up inoculations in developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The WHO validated two versions of the vaccine, produced with SK Bioscience of South Korea and the Serum Institute of India.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The formal approval follows a recommendation by the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation to allow the vaccine to be administered to all adults over 18. That guidance differs from the approach taken by some European Union countries that have restricted its use in the elderly, citing insufficient trial data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>No deaths in Ireland — first time since 21 December</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Ireland reported its first day without Covid-19 deaths in nearly two months, amid what officials called “very considerable progress” in suppressing the virus. There were 821 new cases on Monday, with no deaths, the first day without fatalities since 21 December.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The virus is “going in the right direction, but we’re not there yet,” Deputy Chief Medical Officer Ronan Glynn told reporters in Dublin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Johnson aims to ease UK lockdown</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is hoping to draw up plans to lift national pandemic restrictions on socialising, shopping and travelling to work, including possible target dates for when the curbs will be eased.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We want this lockdown to be the last,” he said at a news conference from 10 Downing Street on Monday. “We want progress to be cautious but irreversible.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Johnson has confirmed his priority will be to try to reopen schools from 8 March, but no decision has yet been made on whether all age groups will return to classrooms at the same time. He said he would unveil the earliest potential dates for removing restrictions from other sectors, “if we possibly can”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>EU in talks for more Moderna doses</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The European Union may secure an extra 150 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Moderna as the bloc seeks to accelerate inoculations, according to an EU official familiar with the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The deal being arranged by the European Commission would bring to 310 million the total number of vaccine doses from Moderna for EU countries. The deliveries of the additional 150 million doses would be for the third quarter, according to the official, who added that negotiations are quite advanced.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>US reports fewest cases since October</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The US recorded 65,336 new infections on Sunday, the lowest daily number since 25 October, before a holiday surge sent case numbers soaring, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>UK cases drop</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The UK reported 9,765 new cases of coronavirus, compared with a 7-day average of 13,200, the government said. The last time the UK reported fewer than 10,000 new cases was on 2 October.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Austria extends hospitality shutdown</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Austria won’t reopen restaurants, bars and cafes before the Easter holiday as new mutations from the UK and South Africa render the situation “volatile,” Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Decisions about easing will be made in two weeks at the earliest, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Portuguese premier gets jab</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa was given his first vaccine dose in Lisbon on Monday, the premier’s office said. Some leaders in Western Europe have shied away from being inoculated for fear of being accused of jumping the queue. Portugal aims to have 70% of its adult population vaccinated by the end of the summer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>UK’s reopening agenda</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lay out plans to lift curbs, including where possible target dates for when the restrictions will be eased. The premier will detail his “road map” for ending lockdown in a statement on 22 February.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“What we want to see is progress that is cautious and irreversible,” Johnson said in a pooled interview with broadcasters. Johnson said his priority remained to reopen schools from 8 March.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>German border worries</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Travel restrictions at Germany’s border with the Czech Republic risk severing automotive supply lines that could spark a wave of production stoppages, according to Germany’s VDA automaker association. BMW AG and Volkswagen AG operate plants in Bavaria and Saxony that depend on car parts particularly from the Czech Republic. Traffic lines appeared at some border crossings, according to local media reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>From Sunday, only German citizens and residents in the country are allowed to enter Germany from the Czech Republic and Austria’s Tyrol region, two zones where more infectious variants of coronavirus are widespread. Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg cautioned Germany against “excessive” steps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman left open the possibility of further border closures with neighbouring countries as a last resort to combat the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Danish vaccinations accelerate</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>All adult Danes can be vaccinated by June 27, a week earlier than previous estimates, because Pfizer can deliver more doses than expected, the nation’s health authority said. So far, about 4% of the population has received a first jab and just under 3% have received both shots.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Malaysia makes progress</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Malaysia added 2,176 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the smallest number since 5 January. The country also expects the first batch of vaccines this week, Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>EU to fast-track approval for adapted vaccine</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides announced fast-track approval procedures for coronavirus vaccines that need to be adapted to protect against Covid-19 mutations, Germany’s <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Augsburger Allgemeine </span></em>newspaper reported on Sunday, citing an interview.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We have now decided that a vaccine that has been reworked by the manufacturer on the basis of the previous vaccine to combat new mutations no longer has to go through the entire approval process,” the paper quoted Kyriakides as saying.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Italy health adviser calls for new lockdown</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Italian health ministry adviser Walter Ricciardi called over the weekend for a new lockdown, citing the rise in virus cases linked to new strains. The government of incoming Prime Minister Mario Draghi was forced to make a last-minute U-turn on the planned opening of ski lifts on Monday throughout the country, ruling that they will remain closed until at least 5 March. Politicians in the mountainous north denounced the decision, calling for an immediate shakeup of the country’s health-management team.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Thailand to get first vaccines by end of month</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha said the nation’s first batch of Covid-19 vaccines would arrive in the last week of the month. The 200,000 shots from Sinovac Biotech should be approved by the nation’s Food and Drug Administration in time for the first vaccinations, which are expected to begin about three days after receiving the doses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thailand on Monday reported 143 new cases, which took the nation’s total infections to 24,714. It also had two new fatalities, resulting in 82 total deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>South Africa to start vaccine rollout on 17 February</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>South African healthcare workers will receive the first doses after regulators approved the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Business Day</span></em> reported, citing Glenda Gray, president of the country’s Medical Research Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>About 80,000 doses of J&J’s vaccine, which come from stock made for clinical trials, are expected to arrive from Belgium on Tuesday, according to <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Business Day</span></em>. The rollout was hamstrung when the government failed to quickly secure doses and was then delayed further because some vaccines showed muted efficacy against a locally found variant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Australia, New Zealand get vaccines</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Australia’s first vaccines arrived in Sydney, with more than 142,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine landing at Sydney airport, Health Minister Greg Hunt told reporters in Canberra. The nation is on track for the most vulnerable Australians to start receiving the vaccine from 22 February.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the first batch of shots had arrived, with about 60,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine delivered in Auckland. The inoculation of border workers will begin on 20 February, while a wider rollout to the general population won’t take place until the second half.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Japan to begin vaccinations on Wednesday</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Japan will begin vaccinations from Wednesday on medical personnel after the shot from Pfizer was approved over the weekend. The government has agreed to buy enough Pfizer doses for 72 million people this year, and the first batch arrived on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Suga told a parliamentary committee Japan needed to ensure that infections were falling before cancelling a state of emergency in effect for 10 regions including Tokyo and Osaka.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>NZ has a reality check as Auckland locks down</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>New Zealand’s summer of unrestricted movement and social interaction has been brought to an abrupt halt by three new community cases of Covid-19.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>After an emergency cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern placed largest city Auckland into a snap, three-day lockdown and reimposed physical distancing requirements for the rest of the country while authorities raced to find the source of the new infections. Genomic sequencing shows them to be the more virulent UK strain of the virus, the Ministry of Health said on Monday. <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>DM</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>COVID-19 Caseload In Arunachal Pradesh Climbs To 16,833</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Arunachal Pradesh's COVID-19 caseload rose to 16,833 after one more person tested positive for the virus, a senior health department official said on Tuesday. The northeastern state now has only three active cases following the recovery of 16,774 people, he said. Fifty-six people have died due to the contagion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>No New COVID-19 Case In Andamans For Second Consecutive Day</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>The union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands did not report any fresh COVID-19 case in the last two days, a health department official said on Tuesday. The coronavirus tally in the union territory remained at 5,009, while 4,938 patients have recovered from the disease so far, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FBFBFB'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Telangana Logs 129 Fresh COVID-19 Cases</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Telangana recorded 129 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 2,96,802 while one death pushed the toll to 1,619, the government said on Tuesday. Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the most number of cases with 23, followed by Rangareddy with nine a government bulletin said on Tuesday providing details as of 8 pm on February 15.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><br>Younger People Half As Likely As Adults To Catch COVID-19, Study Says</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>People under the age of 20 are about half as likely to be infected with COVID-19 as adults, and they are also less likely to transmit the disease to others, according to a new modelling study.Previous studies have found differences in symptoms and the clinical course of COVID-19 in children compared to adults.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FBFBFB'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FBFBFB'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>COVID-19 News: Over 9,000 Coronavirus Cases In 24 Hours</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>India's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 1,09,25,710 with 9,121 new infections being reported in a day, while the daily deaths were recorded below100 for the tenth time this month, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death count increased to 1,55,813 with 81 daily new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><br>Malaysia To Get First Batch Of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccines On February 21</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Malaysia will get its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines produced by U.S. and German drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech on Feb. 21, and kick off its inoculation drive five days after that, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Tuesday. Muhyiddin said he will be the first to receive a dose of the vaccine when the campaign starts on Feb. 26.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FBFBFB'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Syringe Shortage Hampers Japan's COVID-19 Vaccination Roll Out</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Japan is scrambling to secure special syringes to maximise the number of COVID-19 vaccine shots used from each vial, but manufacturers are struggling to ramp up production quickly, raising fears that millions of doses could go waste. Japan, with a population of 126 million, last month signed a contract with Pfizer Inc to procure 144 million doses of its vaccine, or enough for 72 million people, with the vaccination campaign set to start on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><br>South Korea To Buy More COVID-19 Vaccines For 23 Million People</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>South Korea has arranged to buy coronavirus vaccines for 23 million more people, its prime minister said on Tuesday, a day after authorities decided to scale back initial vaccination plans, citing delays and efficacy concerns. The deals include vaccines from Novavax Inc for 20 million people and Pfizer products for 3 million, bringing the total number of people to be covered to 79 million, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>"Not One Death Reported Due To COVID-19 Vaccination": Harsh Vardhan</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said no death had been reported due to COVID-19 vaccination and no new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in 188 districts of the country in the last seven days. Addressing a press conference, Mr Vardhan said India had created a crisis created by COVID-19 into an opportunity and boosted health infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Canada adds over 1K new coronavirus cases, 18 new deaths on holiday Monday</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Canada added 1,157 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 18 new fatalities, as Canadians across much of the country celebrated Family Day on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>The new cases bring the total number of infections in the country to 826,671, however, several regions did not release any new COVID-19 data due to the holiday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>To date, the virus has claimed 21,311 lives in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>In a series of tweets on Monday, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam noted that the new variants of the coronavirus have now been detected in every province in Canada, but said Canadians should “rejoice” that the number of cases and deaths has decreased compared to the last seven days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Meanwhile, the country continues the effort to vaccinate those most vulnerable to the disease.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>According to Health Canada, as of Feb. 11, a total of 1,443,400 doses of the approved vaccines had been distributed across the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>To date, approximately 1.7 per cent of the Canadian population has been vaccinated against the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>The new cases and deaths also come as new rules were implemented for those seeking to enter into Canada through the country’s shared land border with the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Now, anyone looking to drive into Canada will have to provide a negative COVID-19 test which was taken within 72 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Travellers can also offer proof of a positive test result between 14 and 90 days before they arrive, which is long enough for the illness to have passed, but not so long that immunity might have waned.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>What’s more, beginning Feb. 22, travellers arriving at the Canada-U.S. border must also take a COVID-19 test when they arrive.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Hundreds of new cases in the provinces<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>In Quebec, 728 new cases were detected, for a total of 277,518. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Health officials said another 15 people have died after testing positive for COVID-19, pushing the provincial death toll to 10,229. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Meanwhile, in Saskatchewan, 143 new cases mean, to date, 26,693 have contracted the coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>However, the province did not report any new deaths on Monday, meaning the total number of fatalities remained at 354. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>In Atlantic Canada, nine new cases of the virus were detected.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Newfoundland and Labrador health officials said seven more people have contracted COVID-19, while Nova Scotia and New Brunswick each reported one new infection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Health officials in New Brunswick also confirmed one more person has died, pushing the total number of fatalities in the province to 23.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Provincial authorities in Alberta said 251 more people have contracted the disease and two more have died after testing positive for COVID-19.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>To date 129,075 people in Alberta have fallen ill and 1,782 have died.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Seven new cases were detected in Nunavut on Monday, pushing the total number of infections in the territory to 318.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Meanwhile, the Yukon added one new infection, bringing the total case load in the territory to 72.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>No new cases of COVID-19 or fatalities linked to the virus were reported in the Northwest Territories.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island did not release any new COVID-19 data on Monday.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Global cases top 109 million<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Globally, the virus has infected more than 109,000,000 people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>According to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University, a total of 109,076,584 people have contracted the virus to date.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>Since COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China in late 2019, a total of 2,405,804 people have died.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>The United States remained the world’s viral epicentre on Monday, with over 27.6 million infections and more than 486,000 fatalities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>India has seen the second-highest number of cases having reported more than 10.9 million confirmed COVID-19 infections.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.2pt'>To date, the coronavirus has claimed 155,732 lives in India.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.05pt'><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.05pt'><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.05pt'><td width=914 colspan=4 valign=top style='width:685.15pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:33.35pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt;line-height:115%;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=914 colspan=4 style='width:685.15pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>INVESTORS DIARY 2021</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:3.25pt'><td width=217 style='width:163.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:12.6pt;line-height:105%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Company</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=201 style='width:150.95pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Event</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=304 style='width:228.2pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Venue</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=191 valign=bottom style='width:143.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Date & Time</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US styl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