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Washington: The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 159.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.32 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's…
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Copenhagen: Norway has removed the vaccine against Covid-19 made by AstraZeneca from its inoculation campaign, Prime Minister Erna Solberg said. Solberg said on Wednesday that the decision was based on the advice of a committee of…
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New Delhi: The government clarified about the labelling of B.1.617 Covid variant as the 'Indian variant' and stressed upon the fact that the word 'Indian' has never been used by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Several media reports…
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New York: As the mega-billionaire couple Bill and Melinda Gates are heading for divorce, a biographer has spilled the beans about the Microsoft co-founder's and described him as a womanising party-boy during his early years, the Daily Mail…
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Toronto: A 43-year-old man has been charged with shooting dead his 19-year-old nephew and attempted murder of his wife. Gamdur Singh Brar, who shot dead his nephew Harmanjot Singh Bhattal and seriously injured his wife Satvir Kaur Brar…
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Washington: The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 159.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.31 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Wednesday morning, the University's…
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United Nations: A UN report has revised up the world economic growth as a result of robust rebounds in China and the US but warned against fragilities in other economies in the context of Covid-19. In its mid-year update of its World…
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Geneva: The Indian Coronavirus variant, known as B1617, has been declared as a "variant of global concern" by the World Health Organization (WHO), the media reported. The B1617 variant was, till now, deemed a 'variant of interest' by the…
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Jerusalem: Israel launched new airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, and the Islamic Hamas movement, which controls the coastal enclave, unleashed fresh rocket attacks against the Jewish state overnight and on Tuesday, in one of the worst…
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Manila: The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) confirmed on Tuesday its first two cases of the new Covid-19 variant first detected in India. Alethea De Guzman of the DOH Epidemiology Bureau said the B.1.617 variant was detected from…
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New York: Anthony Fauci, the top US expert on Covid-19, has called on countries to provide India with resources to make its own vaccines or donate vaccines. "India is the largest vaccine-producing country in the world. They've got to get…
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Chicago: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday authorised the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 in adolescents aged 12-15 for the prevention of Covid-19 vaccine caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2…
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Toronto:  Coronavirus will become a part of the viral ecosystem -- akin to the seasonal endemic flu -- due to the spread of several variants of concern, according to a Canadian health expert, as per media reports. To deal with such a…
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London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited the leaders of the devolved nations to a summit on how "Team UK" can recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest development came after Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on…
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Beijing: Amid the ongoing second surge of Covid-19 pandemic, a document has been obtained that was written by the Chinese scientists and health officials in 2015 on the novel coronavirus. The document has been reported by an Australian…
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