Mon 05 October 2020: Israel registered 2,905 new coronavirus infections on Monday, according to the Health Ministry. Israel’s overall case count now stands at 268,175, including 1,719 deaths, and 201,392 recoveries, the ministry said. At least 878 patients remain in critical condition, it added. Amid an exponential rise in infections, Israel returned to a total […]
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Mon 05 October 2020: The number of coronavirus cases in Africa surpassed 1.5 million on Monday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said. At least 36,787 people have died while 1.2 million patients recovered across the continent, it said in its latest update. Southern Africa recorded 746,500 cases of which the share of […]
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Mon 05 October 2020: “There is now a 95% probability of the cluster being eliminated,” Ardern said at a news conference. “ Coronavirus restrictions in New Zealand’s largest city will be lifted this week, prime minister Jacinda Ardern said, as she expressed confidence a second wave of Covid-19 infections in Auckland has been almost eliminated. […]
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Mon 05 October 2020: US President Donald Trump sparked an angry backlash from the medical community Sunday with a protocol-breaking visit to his supporters outside the hospital where he is being treated for the highly-infectious, potentially deadly new coronavirus. Trump has consistently downplayed the pandemic and, prior to his diagnosis, rarely wore a mask. The […]
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Mon 05 October 2020: Restaurants will be able to stay open if they follow health protocols, but bars will close as of Tuesday for 15 days Paris and the Ile-de-France region were put on maximum coronavirus alert late Sunday with more restrictions to come. The capital is the latest major city to be placed at […]
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Sun 24 October 2020: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said anyone concealing a COVID-19 infection should face a severe penalty Schools, libraries, mosques and other public institutions in Tehran were closed for a week on Saturday as part of measures to stem a rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, Reuters reported citing authorities in the Iranian capital as saying. The […]
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Sun 04 October 2020: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows revealed that President Donald Trump’s condition on Friday was far worse than officials had made public, saying doctors recommended the president go to the hospital after seeing he had a fever and his blood oxygen level dropped rapidly. Meadows made the comments in an […]
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Sun 04 October 2020: US president ‘feeling better’ after being admitted into hospital but chief of staff says Trump’s symptoms ‘very concerning’. President Trump, who was admitted to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday for COVID-19 treatment, said in a four-minute long Twitter video on Saturday night that he is feeling “much better.” “I think […]
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Sun 4 October 2020: It is unclear how many new cases are from Saturday and how many are from the previous period Britain announced an additional 12,872 new cases of the coronavirus in the UK in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 480,017. The huge rise is almost double Friday’s figure. A “technical […]
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Sat 03 October 2020: India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating. Total deaths rose to 100,842, the health ministry said, while the tally of […]
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