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President Biden cancels funding for Trump’s border wall

Feb 13 2021 Share

Trump’s controversial border wall funding has just been cancelled by President Joe Biden.

On the 11th of February President Biden wrote a letter to Congress, rescinding the national emergency order used to fund Trump’s border wall.

In the letter President Biden noted that the order was, ‘unwarranted’ and he ordered that no more American taxpayer dollars will be spent on the wall.

According to BBC news up until Trump left office about $25 Billion were already spent on the wall.
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Putin promotes the Russian COVID-19 vaccine but still hasn’t taken it himself

Feb 13 2021 Share

Despite heavily promoting the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, Vladimir Putin doesn’t seem to be in any particular rush to take the COVID-19 vaccine himself.

The Sputnik V vaccine is said to offer 91.6% efficacy, against the COVID-19 vaccine.

According to Russian government officials, Putin is currently taking rounds of other vaccines against common flu’s and pneumococcal infections and cannot take the COVID-19 vaccine until he is fully inoculated for the other vaccines.

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Cristiano Ronaldo is the first person to have 500 million followers across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

Feb 13 2021 Share

Cristiano Ronaldo has just become the first person to reach a total of 500 million followers across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Ronaldo, the Juventus superstar has become one of the most famous footballers of all time.

Instagram is thought to have around 1 billion users, which means that the football icon has about 15% of the platform’s users as followers.

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154 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 206 recoveries

Feb 13 2021 Share

Malta has registered 154 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,639 swab tests, while 206 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Friday 22th February 2021, 48,474 vaccine doses were administered.

To date, Malta has registered 19,651 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 17,017 have recovered, 290 died and 2,344 are still active.

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