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Prior COVID offers less protection vs Omicron; mRNA booster shot efficacy declines within months

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Reuters

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. Previous COVID-19 less protective against Omicron variant The immune response to COVID-19 helps protect against reinfection, but that protection is weaker against Omicron than it was against earlier variants of the coronavirus, according to new data. A previous SARS-CoV-2 infection protects against Omicron reinfection only 56% of the time, researchers found in a review of national…

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It’s Champions League Title or Bust for PSG’s Galacticos

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Sports Illustrated

By Jonathan Wilson The PSG–Real Madrid UCL last-16 matchup is not short on story lines, not least of which is how the French side has modeled its approach to conquering Europe after its opponent. In the modern world, there are two ways of running an elite football club. You can work with a manager and impose a philosophy, buying players to fit it, or you can sign lots of famous players and hope they’ll all fit together somehow. Tuesday features the meeting of the two biggest exponents of the celebrity route, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain, and, yet again, one of them is going to be disapp…

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Qatar Airways to add Kano, Port Harcourt routes in Nigeria

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Qatar Airways has announced that its service to Nigeria will be expanded. Four weekly flights to Kano will begin on March 2 and three weekly flights to Port Harcourt will begin on March 3, 2022, as part of this operational enhancement. The airline currently offers two daily flights to Lagos and four weekly flights to Abuja, with the latter becoming a daily service in March. Kano and Port Harcourt will become the seventh and eight new African gateways launched by Qatar Airways since the start of the pandemic. When Kano and Port Harcourt flights begin operation, the airline will provide 188 week…

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Amuneke, New Super Eagles Coach – NFF

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Former international Emmanuel Amuneke has been selected as the next head coach of the Super Eagles by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). Augustine Eguavoen was also retained as Interim Technical Adviser. The development, according to NFF General Secretary Dr Mohammed Sanusi, is part of efforts to restructure the national team’s technical committee. “The NFF Board has approved a recommendation from the Technical and Development Committee to keep Augustine Eguavoen as Technical Director/Technical Adviser (interim) while Emmanuel Amuneke takes over as Chief Coach of the Super Eagles,” the sta…

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Market

EU, US set to pledge gas cooperation as Russian tensions rise

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Reuters UK

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and United States will pledge on Monday to work to ensure liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies can respond to disruptions in pipeline gas flows, as tensions rise between the West and Russia, Europe’s biggest gas supplier. Europe’s dependence on Russian gas has come under scrutiny in recent months as lower than expected supply from Russia and rising tensions over Moscow’s build-up of troops on its border with Ukraine have helped to push prices to record highs. Russia, the European Union’s biggest gas supplier, provides about 40% of Europe’s…

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FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: Official Hospitality Packages Set to Go on Sale in Nigeria

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MATCH Hospitality has confirmed that leading sports management and marketing agency, Integral (www.Integralsande.com), has been appointed as its Sales Agent in Nigeria for the sale of the Official Hospitality Programme of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. MATCH Hospitality is the global rights holder and the only company appointed by FIFA to exclusively promote and sell, either directly or via a network of sales agents, official commercial hospitality packages for the FIFA World Cup 2022™, including guaranteed match tickets. MATCH Hospitality has successfully operated the FIFA Commercial Hospital…

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UK’s major year of sport and culture to be showcased at Expo 2020 Dubai with Culture Secretary visit

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Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries and Minister for Exports Mike Freer to lead the government’s delegation at UK National Day at Expo 2020 DubaiBirmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will be showcased to a global audience at Expo as the UK gets set for the GamesThe Queen’s Baton Relay and the Birmingham 2022 Business and Tourism Programme will be landmark fixtures of UK National Day celebrationsCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries and Minister for Exports Mike Freer will promote the UK’s blockbuster year of sport and cultural events at Expo 2020 Dubai on UK National Day as the Queen’s Baton Relay makes …

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IATF issues new foreign entry guidelines

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Philippine Star

Helen Flores – The Philippine Star February 5, 2022 | 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) released yesterday the requirements and protocols for arriving tourists from non-visa-required countries. Secretary Karlo Nograles, IATF co-chairman and acting presidential spokesman, said that beginning Feb. 10, fully vaccinated nationals from visa-free countries may enter the Philippines for business and tourism purposes. Under IATF Resolution No. 160-B, all arriving visitors must be able to present the following: • A negati…

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U.S. faces snags in bid to speed up at-risk Afghan evacuations

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By Jonathan Landay and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A lack of flights and the search for a new U.S. reception center are among the hurdles facing the White House as it races to speed up the evacuation of at-risk Afghans from their homeland, according to a senior U.S. official and others familiar with the new plan. Other obstacles include difficulties in obtaining passports and an affordable housing shortage in the United States, they said. The plan’s goal “is just to make this more enduring and less of an emergency operation,” the senior U.S. official said in describing the revamp, reques…

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Israel participates in huge US Mideast naval exercise

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Al-Araby

Israel is taking part in a huge US-led naval exercise in the Middle East, for the first time publicly joining Saudi Arabia and Oman, two counties it has no diplomatic relations with despite its normalisation of ties with some Gulf states. The International Maritime Exercise 2022 (IMX 22) includes around 60 countries and comes amid heightened Gulf tensions after missile attacks on the United Arab Emirates by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement, including a foiled attack aimed at a base hosting US forces. Israel normalised relations with Gulf states the UAE and Bahrain in 2020, brought together…

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