Wed 26 May 2021: A Turkish military plane carrying medical supplies to fight COVID-19 left on Tuesday for India’s capital New Delhi, Turkey’s Defense Ministry announced on Twitter. The plane was carrying medical supplies, including 630 oxygen tubes, five oxygen generators, 50 ventilators, and 50,000 boxes of tablet medicines prepared by the Turkish Red Crescent […]
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Mon 24 May 2021: Over 1.67 billion coronavirus vaccine shots have been given worldwide, with Turkey among the top 10 countries for jabs given, figures compiled by Our World in Data, an online portal, showed on Monday. China was the most-vaccinated country with 510.86 million jabs, according to the data, followed by the US with […]
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Mon 24 May 2021: India is now one of three countries in the world, along with the US and Brazil, where the coronavirus death toll stands at over 300,000 according to updated Health Ministry data. Experts warn that the real number of fatalities might be much higher as many deaths are not officially recorded. India […]
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Sun 23 May 2021: India registered more than 8,800 cases of infection with life-threatening fungus, known as mucormycosis or black fungus, in the country, Sadananda Gowda, India’s minister of chemicals and fertilizers, reported on Sunday. The normally rare infection, called mucormycosis, has a mortality rate of 50%, with some only saved by removing an eye. […]
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Sun 23 May 2021: BOGOTA, Colombia Countries across Latin America reported new COVID-19 infections and fatalities late on Saturday, according to official data. Brazil Over the past day, a total of 1,899 people lost their lives to the novel coronavirus in Brazil, bringing the tally to 448,208, according to figures from the country’s Health Ministry. […]
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Sat 22 May 2021: More than 200 new cases of COVID-19 infection were registered over past 24 hours in Palestine, while seven of the patients died, Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila reported on Saturday. “Seven people died, 233 new cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in the Palestinian territories, including 187 cases in the enclave. […]
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Sat 22 May 2021: Faisal Husain,a teenager was allegedly beaten to death by policemen in Uttar Pradesh. The incident occurred in Bangarmau in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday. Two constables and a home guard jawan have been booked for murder. The trio had allegedly beaten up Mohammad Faisal Husain, 18, for selling vegetables […]
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Sat 22 May 2021: A ‘Corona Devi’ temple has come up on the outskirts of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu amid the raging second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The temple has been built by a mutt, the Kamatchipuri Adheenam. This is like the ‘Plague Mariamman Temple’, dedicated by the faithful to the deity Amman seeking […]
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Sat 22 May 2021: The Zimbabwean government has decided to lock down the central city of Kwekwe for two weeks starting from Friday after the detection of a coronavirus variant first identified in India. Various measures have been implemented in the city to curb the spread of the variant, including a curfew, closure of bars […]
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Fri 21 May 2021: The IMF on Friday proposed $50 billion plan to end the Covid-19 pandemic, with a target of vaccinating at least 40 percent of the world’s population by the end of 2021. “Our proposal sets targets, estimates financing requirements and lays out pragmatic action,” said Kristalina Georgieva, head of the International Monetary […]
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