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Everything was different at the 2021 BAFTAs, with COVID restrictions resulting in an eerily empty event at the Royal Albert Hall. But the pandemic did not keep the film industry from celebrating its highlights.

Health officials plan to ease restrictions in continuing care facilities “very soon” but are still trying to balance risk because some staff and residents are…

Agbor an old town that lays straddled on the northern fringes of Delta state is on the cusp of urbanization.

(Bloomberg) -- When the diplomatic emissaries of the Group of Seven nations met virtually late last month to prepare the ground for the leaders summit in June, one problem cropped up over and over again: what to do about China?

Over three days of video conferencing for their second so-called she

The South African coronavirus variant is better at "breaking through" the defences of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine than other forms of the virus, Israeli experts said Sunday.

The coronavirus variant first discovered in South Africa is able to evade some of the protection of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to an Israeli study.

Homo sapiens may have been responsible for butchering Neanderthals in the Stone Age. Evidence for this theory has been found on a jawbone in France. The bone was covered in cut marks similar to those found when humans stripped the flesh from animals.

Across South Africa, the number of patients seeking relief from work-related back and neck injuries and pain from physiotherapists and chiropractors has surged.

Covid-19: Ireland removes three countries from hotel quarantine list
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Three countries have been removed from the Republic of Ireland's mandatory hotel quarantine list.
Irish health minister Stephen Donnelly has revoked the current designations for Albania, Israel and St Lucia.
However, travellers are still obliged to quarantine at home for 14 days, unless they obtained a "not detected" PCR test on day five after arrival.
Mr Donnelly said the three countries had experienced "a substantially improved epidemiological situation".
He added that in the coming days, he intends to designate a number of additional states, "so as to ensure that Ireland is protected as far as possible from importation of variants of concern, which pose a significant risk to our fight against this disease".

Maintenance mostly over in Africa
Most of the current round of refinery maintenance in Africa has been completed.
However, South Africa’s Cape Town and Engen remain closed.
ONGOING MAINTENANCE
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** Ghana’s sole oil refinery, the Tema facility, has come back online after being shut in for a few weeks due to technical issues, a source close to the matter said March 22. “The refinery has resumed processing after days of some maintenance to correct some few issues,” the source said. The refinery went offline in late July, after having run through its reserves of crude. It then restarted in early January only to shut down again a month later. The CDU currently only has one furnace, which means the refinery can only operate at around 30,000 b/d.

YW Capital partners with Delphos International to source capital for Africa
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11 April 2021 - 16:55 Warren Thompson
Local corporate finance boutique YW Capital has teamed up with Delphos International, a US-based financial consulting firm that specialises in accessing funding from development finance institutions (DFIs), to attract more capital to the continent amid renewed American investor interest.
In terms of the partnership, Washington DC-based Delphos International, which has raised more than $20bn from DFIs over its 34-year track record, will bring a network capable of supplying long-dated dollar-denominated senior debt to projects meeting developmental criteria...
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Consumers ditch the sweet life after sour taste of sugar tax bites
Study finds that since the introduction of a ‘sugar tax’, sales of sugar-sweetened beverages have dropped
11 April 2021 - 17:57
Things are not so sweet in the sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) industry after a study found consumption dwindled after the implementation, in 2018, of SA’s “sugar tax”. 
The study (https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2542-5196%2820%2930304-1) was published last week in Lancet Planetary Health. It was compiled by the South African Medical Research Council’s Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science (Priceless-SA) in the School of Public Health at Johannesburg’s Wits University and the University of the Western Cape (UWC), in partnership with the University of North Carolina in the US. ..

"We are still in disbelief, both of us have to ask each other if this is really happening from time to time," he said

The Kansas City metro area continues to reopen as more and more of the population gets the COVID-19 vaccine. What you need to know: The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Friday the state has 304,236 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and there have been 4,938 deaths since the outbreak started. Overall the state said 33.2% of the population has been vaccinated with at least one dose. Kansas is now only updating COVID-19 data on Mondays,...

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JERUSALEM • The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa can "break through" Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is low and the research has not been peer reviewed.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

From Liam Payne’s duet with himself to Bukky Bakray’s moving acceptance speech for the EE Rising Star Award, these are the moments you need to see from the BAFTAs 2021, but may have missed.

Greater community spread of the variants has resulted in swelling hospital admissions