Thu 05 November 2020: France extended its state of health emergency Wednesday to Feb.16 due to a rising number of coronavirus infections. Due to their insufficient numbers in Tuesday’s session of the National Assembly, members of parliament belonging to President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party who had proposed an extension to Feb. 16 were overruled, and […]
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Wed 04 October 2020: British MPs voted in favor of a new national lockdown in England by 516 to 38, a majority of 478. The lockdown will start on Thursday and last until Dec. 2, when it legally expires and parliament will vote on what replaces it. The government won the vote by 516 to […]
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Tue 03 November 2020: More than 11 million novel coronavirus infections have been registered in Europe, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1330 GMT. At least 11,008,465 infections and 284,148 deaths have been declared in Europe. Nearly half of these cases were in the hardest hit countries: Russia (1,673,686 cases), France (1,466,433 infections), Spain (1,240,697) and the […]
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Tue 03 November 2020: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has received a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine., according to a post by the sheikh on Twitter. While receiving the COVID-19 vaccine today. We wish everyone safety and great health, and we are proud […]
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Tue 03 October 2020: Global coronavirus pandemic has infected over 47.3 million people and claimed more than 1.2 million lives. Here are the updates for November 3: Ukraine reports record cases Ukraine registered a record 8,899 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Tuesday, up from the Oct. 30 […]
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Tue 03 October 2020: “The pandemic has been a severe blow to people with low- and medium-skill jobs, many of which are women and youth,” the report said. Countries across the world must work together if there is to be hope of overcoming the novel coronavirus pandemic, the International Monetary Fund said Monday. “The G-20 […]
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Mon 02 November 2020: Anger and exasperation over new coronavirus curbs grew Sunday as European nations wound back the clocks to the spring with fresh lockdowns and restrictions aimed at halting galloping infections and deaths. Protesters in several Spanish cities clashed with security forces for a second night running Saturday, police said, while England prepared […]
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Mon 02 November 2020: The total number of recoveries from the novel coronavirus in Africa topped 1.46 million, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday. The total number of cases on the continent surpassed 1.79 million, while the death toll rose to 43,176, it said. Southern Africa is the hardest […]
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Mon 02 November 2020: Some 1,900 people protested on Sunday in the city ofMunichagainst Germany’s coronavirus shutdown, police said, at what organizers initially billed as a “church service.” “This is not about freedom of assembly,” one of the speakers said at Theresienwiese, the official grounds of the city’s famous Oktoberfest, before calling on participants to pray with him. […]
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Mon 02 November 2020: President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire the nation’s top infectious disease expert after Tuesday’s election, as he expresses frustration that the coronavirus remains in the news amid a nationwide spike of COVID-19. Rallying supporters after midnight in Florida, Trump suggested that the virus would get less news coverage […]
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