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Greece expands no-quarantine list</span></b></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></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><td width=943 colspan=4 valign=top style='width:707.6pt;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 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'><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:3.0pt'><td width=943 colspan=4 valign=top style='width:707.6pt;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:3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Hyundaizimbabwe/"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=924 height=306 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D736A1.19BE3790"></span><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'> </span></a><span class=style30><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></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=943 colspan=4 valign=top style='width:707.6pt;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=943 colspan=4 rowspan=3 valign=top style='width:707.6pt;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</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#0F1419;font-weight:normal'>COVID-19 update: As at 25 April 2021, Zimbabwe had 38 086 confirmed cases, including 35 123 recoveries and 1 557 deaths. To date, a total of 336 600 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=511 height=680 id="Picture_x0020_16" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D73AB5.0B866E50" alt=Image></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <img border=0 width=32 height=32 id="Rectangle_x0020_14" src="cid:image008.png@01D731E1.EB5DE1C0" alt=Image><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A Billion Shots, but Global Cases Keep Rising</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=css-iynevi style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India continues to set new daily infection records as lower-income countries are left behind richer nations in the inoculation drive. Vaccinated tourists from the United States can visit Europe this summer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-bwdy7f style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem 0px;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:0.9375rem;line-height:1.125rem;letter-spacing:0.03rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Hong Kong and Singapore set a new date for the start of a long-delayed travel bubble.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Despite a billion vaccine shots given, Covid-19 runs rampant in much of the world.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A global coronavirus surge that is driven by <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>the devastation in India</span> continues to break daily records and run rampant in much of the world, even as vaccinations steadily ramp up in wealthy countries and more than one billion shots have now been given globally.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On Sunday, the world’s seven-day average of new cases hit 774,404, according to <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>a New York Times database</span>. That is a jump of 15 percent from two weeks earlier, and higher than the peak average of 740,390 during the last global surge in January.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Despite the number of shots given around the world — more than one billion, according to a <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>New York Times tracker</span> — far from enough of the world’s estimated population of nearly eight billion have been vaccinated to slow the virus’s steady spread.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>And vaccinations have been highly concentrated in wealthy nations: 82 percent of shots worldwide have been given in high- and upper-middle-income countries, according to data compiled by the <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Our World in Data</span> project at the University of Oxford. Only 0.2 percent of doses have been administered in low-income countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Israel is far ahead of much of the world in vaccinations: More than half of the population is now fully vaccinated. In Britain, where a highly contagious and deadly variant was discovered, nearly two thirds of the population is at least partly vaccinated and the rate of new cases is now among the lowest in Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>United States</span> has also partly vaccinated about 41 percent of its population and has <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>loosened a ban</span> on the export of raw materials for vaccines to help India control the world’s worst outbreak.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India is recording more than a third of all new global cases each day, averaging more than 260,000 new daily cases over the past week. <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>The country’s sudden surge</span>, driven by the spread of a <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>newer variant</span>, is casting increasing doubt on the official death toll of nearly 200,000, with more than 2,000 people dying every day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Experts say the official numbers, however staggering, represent just a part of the virus’s spread, with hospitals overwhelmed and lacking critical supplies like oxygen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India is home to <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>the Serum Institute of India</span>, the world’s largest vaccine maker. But only <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>about 8.6 percent</span> of India’s population has received at least one shot of a vaccine. Its surge led to the Indian government’s decision to withhold exports of doses that many low- and middle-income countries were relying on. The <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>vaccine rollout in Africa</span>, which was already slower than it is in any other continent, could soon come to a near halt because of the suspension.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Public health experts say the number of global cases is most likely surging because more contagious virus variants are spreading just as people are starting to let their guards down.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In Thailand, where cases were kept at bay for months with strict quarantines and lockdowns, the <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>virus has spread rapidly</span>, in part by unmasked people partying. Daily cases, still low by global standards, have increased from 26 on April 1 to more than 2,000 three weeks later. And in India, many people <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>stopped taking precautions</span> after officials eased a lockdown that was imposed early last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“India let their guard down when the numbers fell and they thought they were over their last peak,” said Barry Bloom, a research professor and former dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He added that the United States should “take a lesson from other countries before we become complacent and decide everything’s OK.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>As bad as India’s situation is, the numbers have room to grow worse: Its daily caseloads, adjusted for its huge population, rank well below other countries’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The rate of new cases in the United States is falling but remains alarmingly high — similar to last summer’s surge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The rates of new coronavirus cases also remain high across much of South America. In <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Brazil</span>, reported cases are starting to drop but remain high after a <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>more contagious variant</span> tore through the country and overwhelmed hospitals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In continental Europe, the pace of vaccinations lags that in the United States and Canada, and the number of new coronavirus cases remains particularly high in <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>France</span>, <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Germany</span>, the Netherlands and Sweden. Turkey, at the crossroads between Europe, the Middle East and Asia, is another hot spot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dr. Robert Murphy, the executive director of the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University, said the United States had a responsibility to send unused vaccine doses to other countries as supplies increase.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We have to start thinking on a global scale and do what we can to help these other countries,” Dr. Murphy said. “Otherwise we’re never going to put out the whole fire.”<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>The E.U. is set to let vaccinated U.S. tourists visit this summer.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>BRUSSELS — American tourists who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to visit the European Union over the summer, the head of the bloc’s executive body said in an interview with The New York Times on Sunday, more than a year after shutting down nonessential travel from most countries to limit the spread of the coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The fast pace of vaccination in the United States, and advanced talks between the authorities there and the European Union over how to make vaccine certificates acceptable as proof of immunity for visitors, will enable the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, to recommend a switch in policy that could see trans-Atlantic leisure travel restored.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“The Americans, as far as I can see, use European Medicines Agency-approved vaccines,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said Sunday in an interview with The Times in Brussels. “This will enable free movement and the travel to the European Union.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Because one thing is clear: All 27 member states will accept, unconditionally, all those who are vaccinated with vaccines that are approved by E.M.A.,” she added. The agency, the bloc’s drugs regulator, has approved all three vaccines being used in the United States, namely the Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson shots.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Ms. von der Leyen did not offer a timeline for when exactly tourist travel might open up or details on how it would occur. But her comments are a top-level statement that the current travel restrictions are set to change on the basis of vaccination certificates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0.9375rem;text-size-adjust: 100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;max-width: 600px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Diplomats from Europe’s tourist destination countries, mostly led by Greece, have argued for weeks that the bloc’s criteria for determining whether a country is a “safe” origin purely based on low coronavirus cases are fast becoming irrelevant given the progress of vaccination campaigns in the United States, Britain and some other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=css-iynevi style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India daily cases top 300,000 for fifth straight day; Greece expands no-quarantine list<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>French </span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>pharmaceutical company <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Sanofi</span></strong> will fill and pack millions of <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Moderna</span></strong> Covid-19 vaccines from September in an effort to help meet the demand for the US drugmaker’s shots, the French company said on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Reuters reports:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Sanofi said it would help supply up to 200 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine at its Ridgefield facility in <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>New Jersey</span></strong>. Financial details of the arrangement were not disclosed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The deal marks Sanofi’s third such agreement this year. In January, Sanofi pledged to help supply over 125 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine made by <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pfizer</span></strong> and <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>BioNTech</span></strong> from this summer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A month later, it said it would fill and finish vials of <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Johnson & Johnson’s</span></strong> single-shot vaccine at a rate of approximately 12 million doses per month.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Sanofi said it was still working on developing two Covid-19 vaccines, one in partnership with Britain’s GlaxoSmithkline for which it has started new clinical trials after disappointing early-stage results last year, and another with U.S. company Translate Bio.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A pill that could prevent Covid-19 drugmaker <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pfizer </span></strong>is developing could be available by the end of the year if human trials in the <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>US</span></strong> and <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Belgium</span></strong> are successful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Mail Online reports:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>There are currently no drugs other than vaccines that can stop people developing Covid-19 – but if one is discovered it could spell the end of lockdowns forever, one expert has said.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pfizer, the company that made one of the most-used jabs in <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Europe</span></strong> and <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>North America</span></strong>, is already testing its experimental pill on people.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The antiviral drug, named PF-07321332, could be given to stop the illness getting severe in people who have started showing signs of coronavirus infection.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Although most people will get vaccinated against Covid, jabs aren’t 100 per cent effective and some people can’t have them or don’t benefit as much, meaning coronavirus will still spread and still be dangerous for unprotected people.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pills could help to prevent severe illness in people for whom jabs don’t work as well, or be a second line of defence in case an immune-resistant new variant emerges.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Around 60 people are currently involved in the first phase of Pfizer’s PF-07321332 trial, which is expected to come to an end on May 25.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>After this, if the pill turns out to be safe, larger trials with more people will be done to prove that it definitely does stop Covid, as lab tests suggested it will.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thailand’s</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> prime minister<strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> Prayuth Chan-ocha</span></strong> was fined 6,000 baht ($190) on Monday for breaching rules aimed at containing the coronavirus by not wearing a face mask, the governor of <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Bangkok</span></strong> said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“I informed the prime minister this was a violation of rules”, Bangkok governor <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Aswin Kwanmuang</span></strong> wrote on his official Facebook page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The move came after a photograph of the prime minister appeared on his Facebook page showing him not wearing a mask in a meeting. The photograph was later removed, Reuters reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The prime minister made an inquiry to city hall about the restrictions, which specify that masks should be worn at all times outside residences, prompting his fine, said Aswin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Russian</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> president <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Vladimir Putin</span></strong> and <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Syria’s</span></strong> president <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Bashar al-Assad </span></strong>discussed Russian vaccine supplies to Syria and cooperation against Covid-19 during a phone call on Monday, the Kremlin said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In a readout of the call, the Kremlin also said Assad had told Putin about preparations ahead of a presidential election in May.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Syria got its first delivery of vaccines from the global COVAX initiative last week, a batch of nearly 200,000 AstraZeneca shots, U.N officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A donation by China of 150,000 doses of its Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Damascus on Saturday, with another batch of the same size planned, Syrian officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>More deliveries are expected in coming weeks, Reuters reported.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nine out of 10 people in <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>England</span></strong> required to self-isolate after being in contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus said they fully adhered to the rules, new figures have shown.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Experimental data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), published on Monday, found 90% of respondents reported being fully adherent to self-isolation requirements throughout their 10-day self-isolation period.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>But of the respondents who did not follow self-isolation requirements, 78% reported they left the house for non-permitted reasons during their 10-day self-isolation period, the ONS said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Of those who left their homes, 27% said they had gone to the shops for groceries, toiletries, medicine or other items, while 13% went out for outdoor recreation or exercise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The data, collected between 1 and 10 April, also found 6% of all respondents had contact with people outside their household during their isolation period, with 57% allowing visitors into their home and 55% having contact somewhere outdoors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Tim Gibbs</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>, of the ONS public services analysis team, said: “It’s reassuring to see that a high percentage of survey respondents are self-isolating after being in contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid-19.<br><br>“Adhering to self-isolation rules is key in reducing the transmission of Covid-19, even after vaccination.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The British government made it a legal duty in September for people in England to self-isolate if they tested positive or were contacted by the National Health Service’s Test and Trace programme.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Around a third (30%) of respondents developed symptoms of coronavirus, the ONS said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The president of the <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>European commission</span></strong> has offered fresh hope of a summer holiday in the<strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> EU</span></strong> for those living outside its borders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Ursula von der Leyen</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> suggested in an interview with the New York Times that Americans who were fully vaccinated would be able to visit the EU in what would be a change of policy on non-essential travel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The EU adopted tough restrictions on travel into the the bloc’s 27 member states last year. Non-essential trips are permitted only from <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Australia</span></strong>, <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>New Zealand</span></strong>, <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Rwanda</span></strong>, <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Singapore</span></strong>, <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>South Korea</span></strong>, and <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thailand</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>To qualify for the list, countries must record no more than 25 new Covid cases per 100,000 people over the last 14 days and no more than 4% of tests carried out in the previous week can return positive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The latest statistics, dated 20 April, shows the UK recorded 24.7 cases per 100,000 across a seven-day period. The list of countries exempt from the ban is reviewed every two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Von der Leyen suggested, however, that the EU’s rules on non-essential travel would change in time for summer to also take into account vaccination coverage.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#F6F6F6'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>EU may let vaccinated Americans holiday in Europe this summer, says Brussels<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F6F6F6'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=liveblog-block-bylinename style='margin-top:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Matteo Salvini</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>, the leader of <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Italy’s</span></strong> far-right League, has started a campaign to scrap the country’s Covid-19 overnight curfew.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Italy started easing coronavirus restrictions on Monday, with more than half of the country in the more lenient ‘yellow zone’, but the 10pm-5am curfew has been maintained.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Salvini timed the launch of a petition on Sunday against the curfew to coincide with the marking of Liberation Day, a commemoration of the ending of <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Benito Mussolini’s</span></strong> fascist regime and Nazi occupation during the second world war.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“On Liberation Day, the League is in the field to restore rights, work and freedoms to Italians. No to the curfew!” he wrote on Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Salvini has also created a website dedicated to his cause, called ‘<em><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>No coprifuoco</span></em>’ (no curfew).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>His campaign comes despite the League, which is part of prime minister <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Mario Draghi’s</span></strong> broad coalition, supporting a decree that included keeping the national curfew. As of Monday morning, the petition had attracted over 65,000 signatures.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The League flocked to join Draghi’s government when it was formed in February. But Salvini has since maintained one foot in opposition, particularly with the next general election due to be held in 2023 and as his smaller far-right ally, Brothers of Italy, which stayed in opposition, gains popularity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Enrico Letta</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>, who leads the centre-left Democratic, said that if Salvini doesn’t want to be in the government, then he should withdraw his party.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Authorities in <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nepal </span></strong>are grappling to contain a surge of new infections, with experts fearing that thousands of people in the Himalayan state have caught the more infectious mutant strains emerging out of India.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nepal, which shares a 1,751km (1,094 miles) long porous border with <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India</span></strong>, reported 3,032 new infections on Sunday, the highest daily rise recorded this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The country’s overall tally of logged infections now stands at 300,119, and there have so far been 3,164 deaths, according to government data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We have detected the <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>UK</span></strong> variant and the double mutant variant detected in India,” <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Krishna Prasad Paudel</span></strong>, the director of Nepal’s Epidemiology and Disease Control Department told Reuters, adding that experts were checking for other variants too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Since Nepal’s vaccination programme launched in January, 1.9 million people have received jabs, all provided by <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India</span></strong> and <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>China</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>But now that India is battling a terrifying new wave and prioritising the vaccination of its own population, the future Nepal’s the inoculation drive is uncertain after officials had failed to procure more vaccine from India or any other source.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Over 90 developing nations, including Nepal, rely on vaccine deliveries from India, home to the Serum Institute, the world’s largest vaccine maker.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nepal’s border with India was closed for some time during a lockdown last year, but has since been reopened.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“The situation is really frightening,” said<strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> Prakash Thapa</span></strong>, a doctor at Bheri hospital in Nepalgunj, a city in the southwest plains bordering India. He told Reuters the hospital was inundated with coronavirus patients requiring intensive care and ventilators.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“This time even children and young people are brought in critical condition and patients are even sleeping on the floor and corridors,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Today so far …<o:p></o:p></span></h2><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India</span></strong>, hoarding oxygen and vital medicines in homes is “creating panic” and causing shortages in hospitals, according to senior Indian doctors, prompting fears of shortages for critically ill patients amid the worsening Covid crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It comes as <strong><u><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India</span></u></strong> recorded 352,991 new cases, breaking the global record it set the day before, and 2,812 new deaths, its highest daily figure for fatalities. It was the fifth day in a row that cases topped 300,000.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>UK</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> defence secretary <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Ben Wallace</span></strong> has said the Covid-19 pressures in India were becoming “unbearable” and that the UK would “do everything we can to alleviate their suffering”.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Germany</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> will send oxygen and medical aid to India in the coming days to help it tackle its Covid crisis, foreign minister <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Heiko Maas</span></strong> said.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>World Health Organization</span></strong> has said it will start a technical assessment of the <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Moderna Covid vaccine</span></strong> on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Greece</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> will lift quarantine restrictions on coronavirus-free visitors from more countries including <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Australia</span></strong> and <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Russia</span></strong> from Monday as it extends exemptions ahead of formally opening up to tourists on 15 May.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Turkey</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>’s cabinet will discuss adopting a tighter lockdown as the government tries to prevent a second lost year of tourism revenues.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Forty-four-year-olds in <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>England</span></strong> are being urged to take up the Covid vaccine from today when about half a million of them will receive a text inviting them to get their jab through the national booking service.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Northern Ireland</span></strong>, the vaccination programme will fully open to all those aged between 35 and 39 from Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>France</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>’s infant and primary schools have reopened for the first time in three weeks with strict health rules and increased coronavirus testing.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>New Covid-19 restrictions came into force in <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thailand</span></strong> today to try to halt a spiralling outbreak that saw deaths hit a record single-day high over the weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Cambodia</span></strong>, the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged factory owners in the key garment sector to help protect workers.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Japan’s </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>vaccination programme still lags behind the rest of the developed world, raising questions about its preparedness and doubts about the wisdom of holding the <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Olympics</span></strong> in Tokyo in less than three months’ time. Tokyo 2020 organising committee president <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Seiko Hashimoto</span></strong> has said today that the committee will decide on rules for limiting spectators in April.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Kazakhstan</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> has rolled out its homegrown coronavirus vaccine, with the central Asian country’s health minister receiving the jab on live television. QazCovid-in, also known as QazVac, is a two-shot vaccine that is in third-stage trials.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Philippines</span></strong> announced that the total number of coronavirus cases it had recorded had exceeded 1 million.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Hong Kong</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> and <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Singapore</span></strong> have announced plans to resurrect their scrapped coronavirus travel bubble with dedicated flights between the two cities restarting on 26 May.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Facebook</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> has removed <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Australia</span></strong>’s federal independent MP <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Craig Kelly</span></strong>’s page for repeatedly breaching the social media company’s misinformation policy.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Turkey’s cabinet will discuss adopting a tighter lockdown as President Tayyip Erdoğan tries to prevent a second lost year of tourism revenues, officials have told Reuters.<br></span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>After the last cabinet meeting two weeks ago, as coronavirus cases surged, Erdoğan reined in social activities and travel. Total daily cases then peaked above 63,000 on 16 April before dropping sharply to below 39,000 on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>But government officials said the fall was not enough and ministers would look into imposing new measures to last through holiday at the end of Ramadan, in a way that does not hit economic production.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Cases … have been falling for a few days but this is not enough. A full shutdown will be on the cabinet’s agenda and this option should be implemented,” one official told Reuters, requesting anonymity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The measures, while careful to allow economic production to continue, could close shopping malls and require special permits for intercity travel, the person said. Cafes and restaurants are already shut.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Last Friday, health minister Fahrettin Koca said the latest restrictions had shown some results, including a 20% fall in cases in Istanbul and fewer hospital patients, though they were still a burden on intensive care units.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>He also said measures would be tightened if the targeted fall in cases did not materialise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;line-height:1rem;padding:0.1875rem 0px 0.75rem 0.625rem;font-size:0.75rem;right:1.25rem;bottom: 0.25rem'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In Cambodia, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged factory owners in the key garment sector to help protect workers.<br></span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“The current outbreaks in factories and markets serve as a painful reminder of the importance of investing in mitigation measures before cases occur, to help prevent the virus spreading,” Li Ailan, WHO representative in Cambodia, said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Li urged factory owners to do more temperature screening and rearrange workshops to allow social distancing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The capital Phnom Penh has been under lockdown for 12 days now and last week the authorities ordered all wet markets in the city to close for 14 days. Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday ordered tougher enforcement of lockdown measures.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Agence France-Presse note that Cambodia has reported 9,975 cases in total and 74 deaths including 10 on Saturday - a single-day record for the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>More than two months after it began its vaccine rollout, Japan still lags behind the rest of the developed world, raising questions about its preparedness and doubts about the wisdom of holding the Olympics in Tokyo in less than three months’ time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>To date, 1.3% of Japan’s population have received at least one of two doses, compared with 40% in the US, 49% in the UK and 20% in France, according to Our World in Data. Neighbouring South Korea, which has also been criticised for a slow vaccine uptake, has inoculated more than 4% of its people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The health ministry has so far approved only the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, leaving <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/japan"><span style='color:windowtext'>Japan</span></a> dependent on imports from theEU until the AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines are given the green light, possibly next month.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>As of 23 April, just over 1.74 million frontline medical staff had received their first dose, with 878,000 fully vaccinated. About 74,000 people aged 65 and over had been given their first jab as of Sunday, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Extreme caution and red tape are causing frustration among the public. A Kyodo news agency poll this month found more than 60% of people were dissatisfied with Japan’s vaccine rollout, while more than 90% were worried about another wave of infections.<strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Japan’s slow Covid vaccine rollout casts cloud over Olympics<br></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Here’s a bit more on that Reuters story about the WHO assessing the Moderna vaccine for possible emergency authorisation. Please note that earlier Reuters – and I – reported wrongly that the review would start today. The actual start date is Friday 30 April.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We are discussing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on Friday …” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said in reply to a Reuters query.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A decision on the vaccine, now being evaluated under the abridged procedure on the basis of prior review by the European Medicines Agency, was expected in one to four days after that, Lindmeier said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The WHO committee of technical experts were on Monday reviewing the Covid-19 vaccine of Chinese drugmaker Sinopharm and is due to review the Sinovac product at its next meeting on 3 May, according to the WHO.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Stephane Bancel, Moderna CEO, told an event last Friday that it was on track to make up to 1bn doses of its Covid-19 vaccine this year and 1.4bn next year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We’re in the final stretch to get an agreement with Covax,” Bancel said, referring to the vaccine-sharing facility run by the Gavi Vaccine Alliance and WHO to bring doses to lower income countries.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;line-height:1rem;padding:0.1875rem 0px 0.75rem 0.625rem;font-size:0.75rem;right:1.25rem;bottom: 0.25rem'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>New Covid-19 restrictions came into force in Thailand today to try to halt a spiralling outbreak that saw deaths hit a record single-day high over the weekend.</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In Bangkok - where the latest outbreak has been traced back to a nightlife district - as well as 47 other provinces, wearing masks is now compulsory in public spaces, with some locations backing it up with the threat of a 20,000 baht ($640) fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Agence France-Presse note that authorities in the capital have also closed a raft of venues including cinemas, parks, gyms, swimming pools, spas and nurseries. The new restrictions come a week after authorities ordered bars and nightclubs to close and banned restaurants from serving alcohol.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The tightening comes as total infections reached 57,500 on Monday, up from just 29,000 in early April. Until the latest outbreak, Thailand had managed to keep infections down, thanks to strict travel restrictions and swift action to isolate confirmed cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>But there have been complaints about the slow rollout of vaccines, with Thailand lagging behind other countries in the region. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha said on Facebook the government was trying to source more doses and ramp up the programme to inoculate 300,000 people a day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Many of the routine measures meant to keep Americans healthy – and keep American health from slipping further behind that of other developed, peer nations – have hit a worrying cliff.</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>As attention has focused on the immediate crisis of the pandemic and the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in America, there has been a major drop in critical preventative care including childhood vaccinations and lead screenings, sexually transmitted disease testing and substance abuse services.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“This is either the second or first worst pandemic in modern human history,” said Dr Howard Markel, a pandemic historian and pediatrician at the University of Michigan. “We knew there would be repercussions and unintended consequences.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Now, there is a “whole menu of neglect” to address as a national vaccine campaign allows people to slowly emerge from a year of lockdowns and social distancing. “There is no historical precedent for this,” added Markel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In the first few months of the pandemic alone, at least 400,000 children missed screenings for lead, a toxic heavy metal. Doctors and nurses ordered 3m fewer vaccines for children and 400,000 fewer for measles specifically.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>For the first time, clinics were forced to ration lab tests for sexually transmitted diseases as lab capacity and supplies were diverted to test for Covid-19. Contact tracers were also re-deployed from tracking chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases to finding people in contact with Covid-19 patients.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F6F6F6;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#F6F6F6'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>‘Menu of neglect’: preventative care hits cliff as US health resources diverted to fight Covid<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The southern Indian state of Karnataka, home to technology hub Bengaluru, will impose a lockdown for 14 days starting from 27 April evening in an effort to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases, the state’s chief minister has said.</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Karnataka is the latest region to enter a lockdown after similar curbs in many parts of India, which is battling a massive second wave of infections that has pressured its health system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Chandini Monnappa reports from Reuters in Bengaluru that the city of 12 million had more than 20,000 new infections on Sunday, its highest single-day tally so far and second only to India’s capital, Delhi.<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 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width=943 colspan=4 style='width:707.6pt;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=271 style='width:203.0pt;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 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class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>01/05/21<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='margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-72.0pt;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=271 valign=top style='width:203.0pt;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='line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>FCB<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=269 style='width:201.65pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>AGM <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=208 style='width:155.7pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>virtual<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=196 valign=top style='width:147.25pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>06/05/21 : 3pm<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='margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-72.0pt;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=271 valign=top style='width:203.0pt;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='line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>NMB<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=269 style='width:201.65pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>AGM<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=208 style='width:155.7pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>virtual<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=196 valign=top style='width:147.25pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>1205/21 : 3:30pm<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='margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-72.0pt;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=271 valign=top style='width:203.0pt;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='line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=269 style='width:201.65pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Africa Day<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=208 style='width:155.7pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=196 valign=top style='width:147.25pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>25/05/21<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='margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-72.0pt;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=271 valign=top style='width:203.0pt;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='line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=269 style='width:201.65pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Public Holiday in lieu of Independence Day falling on a Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=208 style='width:155.7pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=196 valign=top style='width:147.25pt;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%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>19/04/21<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='margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-72.0pt;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=540 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:404.65pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#D9D9D9;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Companies under Cautionary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=208 style='width:155.7pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#D9D9D9;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=196 valign=bottom style='width:147.25pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#D9D9D9;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></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 style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:3.25pt'><td width=540 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:404.65pt;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=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=208 style='width:155.7pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=196 valign=bottom style='width:147.25pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;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 style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:3.25pt'><td width=540 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:404.65pt;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=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>ART<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=208 style='width:155.7pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>PPC<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=196 valign=bottom style='width:147.25pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dairibord<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 style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:3.25pt'><td width=540 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:404.65pt;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=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Starafrica<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=208 style='width:155.7pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Fidelity<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=196 valign=bottom style='width:147.25pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Turnall<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 style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:3.25pt'><td width=540 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:404.65pt;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=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Medtech<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=208 style='width:155.7pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Zimre<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=196 valign=bottom style='width:147.25pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:3.25pt'><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nampak Zimbabwe<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 style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=943 colspan=4 valign=top style='width:707.6pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#1F497D;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></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><td width=943 colspan=4 valign=top style='width:707.6pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#1F497D;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:white'>DISCLAIMER: This report has 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Other Indices quoted herein are for guideline purposes only and sourced from third parties.<o:p></o:p></span></i></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><td width=943 colspan=4 valign=top style='width:707.6pt;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%'><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></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><td width=943 colspan=4 valign=top style='width:707.6pt;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-size:8.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>(c) 2021 <b>Web</b>:</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="http:// www.bullszimbabwe.com "><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'> www.bullszimbabwe.com </span></a></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Email:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:info@bulls.co.zw"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>info@bulls.co.zw</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <b>Tel:</b> +263 4 2927658 <b>Cell:</b> +263 77 344 1674<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><td width=943 colspan=4 valign=bottom style='width:707.6pt;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%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><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='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'><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></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>