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Russia sees slight decline in new Covid cases

After a gap of three months, Russia has reported the daily new Covid-19 cases below 18,000, pushing the tally to 3,774,672, health officials said on Wednesday. Officials added that the country reported

January 27, 2021

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Brazil to airlift Covid patients from northern states

Pazuello on Tuesday addressed reporters at the opening of a field hospital in the Amazonas capital Manaus, where facilities have been overrun due to a rise in coronavirus cases in the past

January 27, 2021

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Biden hopes anyone can get vaccine by spring

US President Joe Biden’s underpromise-overdeliver strategy on Covid-19 vaccine allocation landed its most optimistic message yet, pointing to vaccination for any American who wants a shot by “this Spring”…writes Nikhila Natarajan. Responding

January 26, 2021

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WHO chief warns pandemic is speeding up

The number of Covid-19 cases worldwide is expected to reach 100 million within this week, said the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “A year ago today, fewer

January 26, 2021

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AstraZeneca’s new vaccine schedule ‘not acceptable’ to EU

Stella Kyriakides, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, stated on Monday that AstraZeneca’s new schedule in which the company’s supply of Covid-19 vaccine would fall short of expectation was unacceptable

January 26, 2021

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Covid infections surge in Spain

Spain’s Ministry of Health on Monday reported 93,822 new cases of Covid-19 and 767 deaths over the period from 14:00 local time on Friday to 14:00 on Monday. Spain’s cumulative tally of

January 26, 2021

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WHO thanks India for ‘Vaccine Maitri’

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Saturday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “continued support” to the global Covid-19 response. India’s ‘Vaccine Maitri’ initiative is providing

January 23, 2021

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‘Dhanyavaad’: Bolsonaro thanks Modi for vaccine exports

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said “Dhanyavaad” (thank you) to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for helping the South American nation with Covid-19 vaccine exports. Taking to Twitter on Friday night, the President

January 23, 2021

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EU agrees to consider further restrictions

Leaders of the European Union (EU) have agreed to consider further restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus by strongly discouraging non-essential travel between member states, European Commission President Ursula von

January 22, 2021

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‘It’s what people need, what the country needs’

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that House committees will work on a new Covid-19 relief package from next week. “We’re getting ready for a Covid relief package. We’ll be

January 22, 2021

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