Wed 28 April 2021: The world is seeing a clearer picture of exactly how seriously Covid-19 is ravaging India. With reports and gutting images emerging from New Delhi’s overrun hospitals and cremation sites, experts say that the death toll is much greater than the 193,000 the government has reported. The country of 1.3 billion is now the global epicenter of […]
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Wed 28 April 2021: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don’t need to cover their faces anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers. And those who are unvaccinated can go outside without masks in some cases, too. People […]
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Tue 27 April 2021: The World Health Organization chief described the situation in the world’s second-most populous country as “beyond heartbreaking”. India’s new coronavirus cases have stayed above 300,000 for a sixth consecutive day on Tuesday, while its armed forces pledged urgent medical aid to help battle the staggering spike in infections overwhelming its hospitals […]
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Tue 27 April 2021: The number of people infected with coronavirus in Africa reached over 4.5 million, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. At least 120,420 people have died, while more than 4 million patients have recuperated across the continent so far, it said. South Africa recorded 1.6 million cases, Morocco […]
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Tue 27 April 2021: Saudi Arabia in its latest move has come to India’s rescue by providing 80 metric tonnes liquid oxygen and high capacity cryogenic tanks as the country is running low on supplies due to an unprecedented spike in COVID-19 cases. The supply shipment is being undertaken in cooperation with the Adani group […]
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Mon 26 April 2021: Complying with the request from the central government, Twitter has withheld access to at least 52 tweets in India. These tweets were critical of the way Modi government is handling the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic which has consumed thousands of lives in days. The blocked tweets were posted by a […]
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Mon 26 April 2021: US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Monday urged the international community to prepare for the next pandemic. Thomas-Greenfield spoke at a closed virtual UN meeting, co-hosted by the United States, Japan, Norway and South Africa, on pandemic preparedness and response. “The takeaway from this past year is […]
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Mon 26 April 2021: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a lockdown in the country from April 29 to May 17 due to the situation with the coronavirus. The daily increase in the number of cases of coronavirus in Turkey on April 16 has hit a new high since the beginning of the pandemic at […]
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Mon 26 April 2021: South Africa is still on track to vaccinate at least 45 million people residing in the country, says Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize. In a statement on Monday, Mkhize said the first 1.1 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccines are ready for dispatch from the Gqeberha plant. […]
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Mon 26 April 2021: India’s daily coronavirus cases hit another global record Monday after the country registered 352,991 new infections, said the Health Ministry. The country’s total caseload rose to over 17 million while the death toll stood at 195,123, including a record 2,812 new fatalities. India has registered an exponential increase in daily cases […]
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