Thu 31 December 2020: The new highly contagious coronavirus strain from the U.K. has spread to Southern California, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday. He made the statement during an online conversation about the pandemic with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, but Newsom offered little additional information about the circumstances of […]
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Wed 30 December 2020: The first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019. However, Beijing has denied that China is the origin of the deadly disease, which has affected over 81.9 million people worldwide. More than 1.78 million people have died from the virus while over 46 million have recovered. Here’re […]
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Wed 30 December 2020: The head of the World Health Organization, marking a year since the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by China, urged countries to ensure that vaccines are made available to people at risk everywhere, not just in rich nations. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, appealed for $4 billion to […]
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Wed 30 December 2020: The first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019. However, Beijing has denied that China is the origin of the deadly disease, which has affected over 81.9 million people worldwide. More than 1.78 million people have died from the virus while over 46 million have recovered. Here’re […]
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Wed 30 December 2020: A plane carrying the first 3 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine ordered from China’s SinoVac Biotech arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday. The Boeing 777 plane, which departed from Beijing with 17 containers of vaccines, landed at Esenboga Airport at 5.44 a.m. local time (0244 GMT) Announcing the […]
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Tue 29 December 2020: Iran launches trial of own COVID-19 vaccine Iran launched Tuesday the first phase of a clinical trial of a vaccine developed in the Islamic Republic, the region’s country hardest hit by the pandemic, state television reported. “The first vaccine against the coronavirus, developed by Iranian researchers, has been unveiled by injecting […]
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Tue 29 December 2020: 162,000 people died this year, 13,000 more than expected, says country’s statistical authority The number of deaths in the Netherlands in 2020 grew at the highest rate since World War II, the Dutch National Statistics Office (CBS) said on Tuesday. The country of 17 million reported 162,000 deaths up to week […]
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Tue 29 December 2020: Oil prices increased on Tuesday with uncertainties cleared over the US coronavirus relief bill, which was designed to reduce the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $51.16 per barrel at 0631 GMT with a 0.51% increase after closing Monday at $50.90 a barrel. American […]
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Tue 29 December 2020: Germany’s confirmed cases rise by 12,892 -RKI The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany has increased by 12,892 to 1,664,726, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed. The reported death toll rose by 852 to 30,978, the tally showed. US House okays $2,000 coronavirus aid checks […]
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Mon 28 December 2020: President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced new tougher coronavirus restrictions, a day after South Africa recorded more than one million Covid-19 cases. President Ramaphosa announced South Africa will move back to level 3 with immediate effect from midnight. He said that several of the level 3 regulations were being strengthened to further […]
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