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Cities and countries across the world closed their borders for their own citizens, as well as foreigners. Newspapers carried alarming accounts of rapidly rising numbers of COVID-positive cases
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Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said on Sunday the case was a 56-year-old woman who recently returned from Europe.
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It is unknown when Sri Lanka might be able to get supplies.
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We utilized the latest advances in materials and manufacturing such as nanoparticle 3D printing to create a device that rapidly detects Covid-19 antibodies," said researcher Rahul Panat, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon
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Two members had already set out on their journey - one has now turned back and the other is in transit in a third country, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
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From California to Missouri to Pennsylvania, state and local officials say that so many guards have fallen ill with the virus and are unable to work that abruptly closing some correctional facilities
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In a virtual press conference this week, Sahin spoke about the potential virus deadline when asked when life could return to normal.
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Pandemic has claimed more than 1.7 million lives and is still running rampant in much of the world, but the recent launching of innoculation campaigns has boosted hopes that 2021 could bring a respite
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The study, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, followed 127 pregnant women who were admitted to Boston hospitals during the spring of 2020.
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There is no need to panic but there is cause to be more vigilant, said NITI Aayog member (Health) Dr V K Paul
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Health officials had feared the US Thanksgiving holiday in late November would lead to a fresh outbreak of the novel coronavirus after millions of Americans traveled to join friends and family.
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The US-based rating agency said its revision in growth forecast reflects a faster-than-expected recovery in the quarter through September. For the next fiscal, it projected India's growth to rebound to 10 per cent.
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More than 100 million Indonesians are registered to vote in the poll staffed by almost 2.7 million election workers, some of whom were tasked with taking ballot boxes to hospitalised Covid patients.
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The Pfizer-BioNTech jab is one of several vaccines bringing hope for an end to the pandemic that has killed more than 1.5 million people worldwide and ravaged economies.
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The 67-year-old minister was given the first shot on November 20.
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The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 61.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.44 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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The ability to predict the survival of the novel coronavirus on different surfaces can help prevent and contain the spread of COVID-19, the researchers said.
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“What has been really at the center of our response has been some fundamentals around testing, contact tracing, isolation,” Ardern said.
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The study, published in The Lancet medical journal, suggest that those aged over 70 -- who are at higher risk of serious illness and death from Covid-19 -- could build robust immunity to the novel Coronavirus.
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More than 2,000 cases were recorded nationwide on Wednesday, with nearly 500 in Tokyo.