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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announces a ban on alcohol sales and says mask-wearing would be mandatory in public, as his country became the continent’s first to record one million coronavirus cases.
Ramaphosa says during a televised speech that alcohol would be temporarily banned from midnight to help emergency services already under pressure.
He also announces it would be “compulsory for every person to wear a mask in public spaces,” saying it was a “drastic measure, now necessary.” I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is extending a night-time traffic curfew to 330 lower-risk cities and towns in an effort to sustain a recent decline in the num.
Israeli minister orders jails not to vaccinate Palestinian security prisoners
Order defies health ministry guidelines that prisoners should be part of second group of Israelis to be vaccinated
Public Security Minister Amir Ohana s statement did not single out Palestinian inmates, but there are no non-Palestinian security prisoners in Israel (AFP) By Published date: 27 December 2020 15:47 UTC | Last update: 2 months 3 weeks ago
Israel s Public Security Minister Amir Ohana told the country s prison service late last week not to inoculate Palestinian security prisoners, an Israeli newspaper has revealed.
The order came despite health ministry guidelines that prisoners should be part of the second group of Israelis to be vaccinated against the Covid-19 coronavirus, together with security personnel, Haaretz wrote on Sunday.
Fact check: No evidence SARS-CoV-2 is a HIV-based bioweapon; trials show vaccines against the virus are effective
By Reuters Staff
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A lengthy YouTube video features numerous unsubstantiated or false claims around COVID-19, primarily the suggestion it was purposely created as a weapon, using the same genetic material as HIV, and as such there is no way a vaccine could be effective.
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The claims were made in a YouTube video (here). There are multiple other claims in the more than 48-minute video, which are beyond the scope of this fact check.
At various points in the video (7.40, 13.46, 14.30), the speaker claims that COVID-19 was designed as a biological weapon.
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