Sun 23 August 2020: Police book 29 foreign Muslims for allegedly defying COVID-19 measures by attending congragation NEW DELHI – A court in western India quashed criminal proceedings Saturday against foreign and Indian nationals accused of snubbing precautions against the novel coronavirus by attending a Muslim congregation in a mosque, saying they were made “scapegoats.” […]
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Sat 22 August 2020: The coronavirus pandemic has infected over 23 million people with over 803,000 deaths from the disease. Travellers from France to UK need to self certify they do not have virus symptoms Travellers from France to the United Kingdom will be required to self certify that they are not suffering coronavirus symptoms […]
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Sat 22 August 2020: Shop workers’ union calls for new legislation, harsher sentences LONDON- A union representing retail staff in the UK has called on the government to better protect shop workers after violence against them has doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, local media reported on Saturday. The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers […]
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Sat 22 August 2020: The World Health Organization on Friday recommended that children over 12 should wear masks in the same contexts as adults in the bid to rein in the coronavirus pandemic. “Children aged 12 and over should wear a mask under the same conditions as adults, in particular when they cannot guarantee at […]
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Sat 22 August 2020: BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus crisis will end in less than two years, its chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday. More than 22.8 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 around the world, and more than 797,000 have died, according to data from US-based Johns […]
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Sat 22 August 2020: Health and economy are inseparable, says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus GENEVA – The WHO chief said Friday he hopes the world can finish the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was answering questions about the comparison between the last century’s Spanish flu, and the novel coronavirus afflicting the world […]
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Fri 21 August 2020 Sittwe city becomes COVID-19 hotspot with 16 cases of local transmission in just 6 days after month-long hiatus YANGON, Myanmar – Authorities in Myanmar on Friday imposed a night-time curfew in the capital city of the country’s western Rakhine state due to a surge in local cases novel coronavirus cases. The […]
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Fri 21 August 2020 48 inmates test positive in Kericho GK Prison A prison in Kenya has been placed under lockdown after 48 inmates tested positive for the novel coronavirus, local media reported on Friday. In a notice to authorities of Kericho GK Prison, the health department barred movement in and outside the correctional facility, […]
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Fri 21 August 2020: Vaccine candidate under development by Pfizer, BioNTech on track to seek regulatory review German-based biotech firm BioNTech announced late Thursday that vaccine candidate for COVID-19 with US drug giant Pfizer was on track for regulatory review as early as October. “Assuming clinical success, Pfizer and BioNTech are on track to seek […]
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Thu 20 August 2020 While infections in India rise by 50,000 daily, Health Ministry says recovery rate is also scaling to peak NEW DELHI – As India approaches three million cases of the novel coronavirus, adding over 50,000 infections each day since late July, health experts cite setbacks in primary health care to contain the […]
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