Mon 19 October 2020: Iran’s single-day death toll from the coronavirus smashed a record set less than a week ago, with 337 dead confirmed Monday as a resurgence of infections is overwhelming hospitals. Fatalities have soared in recent weeks, as authorities struggle to contain the virus’s spread months into the pandemic. Health officials say the capital, Tehran, […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: At least half of the country’s 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus by next February, helping slow the spread of the disease, a member of a central government committee tasked with providing projections said on Monday. India has so far reported 7.55 million cases […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: A staggering 12 million children missed up to four months of school across Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger due to Covid-19 restrictions. Meanwhile, 776,000 children were prevented from attending school the entire year due to insecurity, new figures by the Norwegian Refugee Council have revealed. “Children are in the midst of […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: South Africa’s health minister and his wife tested positive for the novel coronavirus as cases continued to surge in the country. “I wish to inform the public that this afternoon my wife Dr. May Mkhize and I have tested positive for COVID-19,” Zweli Mkhize tweeted late Sunday. The top health official […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: Belgium imposed a nationwide overnight curfew as Switzerland made wearing face masks compulsory in indoor public spaces, the latest desperate measures by European governments to fight a powerful second wave. More than 250,000 people have died of the virus in Europe but the deepening crisis there stands in contrast to Australia, […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Bangladesh on Sunday registered 14 new coronavirus-linked deaths, the lowest daily toll since May 12, officials said Sunday. The number of fatalities from the novel virus, which originated in China last December, now stands at 5,660. The total number of people having tested positive rose by 1,274 to 388,569, according to […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: The Government is to take “decisive” action and will announce further nationwide Covid restrictions on Monday. It now looks likely that level 4 restrictions with some additions will be imposed after Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris said level 3 restrictions “have not worked”. “The Government will act tomorrow and the […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Health officials in New York put a stop to a planned wedding after receiving reports that “upwards of 10,000 individuals” were scheduled to attend the event in Brooklyn on Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. “We received a suggestion that that was happening. We did an investigation and found that it […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: As Paris and other cities and regions enter the first night of a curfew Saturday, new cases of coronavirus infections hit a new daily record. There were 90 new fatalities with France’s death toll now standing at 33,392. A total of 7,198 patients remain hospitalized with 1,269 in the ICU, but […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Saudi Arabia allowed its citizens and residents inside the kingdom to perform prayers in one of the most holy religious sites, Al Haram Mosque (Grand Mosque) in Makkah, for the first time in seven months, state television reported early on Sunday. A group of worshipers prayed Fajr (the dawn prayer) in […]
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