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The North launched the missile eastward at around 8.10 a.m. (S.Korea time) from a land-based platform, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said without further elaboration, reported Yonhap news agency.
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Paris: French researchers have detected a new Covid variant, probably of Cameroonian origin, and have temporarily named it as ‘IHU’. The new variant from the lineage named B.1.640.2 is believed to have infected 12 people in the country, according to a yet-to-be peer-reviewed study supported by the French Government. It has 46 mutations and 37 […]
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Paris: French researchers have detected a new Covid variant, probably of Cameroonian origin, and have temporarily named it as ‘IHU’. The new variant from the lineage named B.1.640.2 is believed to have infected 12 people in the country, according to a yet-to-be peer-reviewed study supported by the French Government. It has 46 mutations and 37 […]
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Hyderabad: While many of us groove to some very popular English songs like ‘Believer’, ‘Shape of You’, ‘Love Me Like You Do’, and ‘Cheap Thrills’, you might be transferred to the world of the western singers and also relate it to your world sometimes. But, can you imagine a bland version of these songs rendered […]
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We permanently suspended the account (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our Covid-19 misinformation policy.
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Worldwide, 4,020 flights had been cancelled by Sunday afternoon, according to flight tracker FlightAware, with 2,393 of them being within, into, or out of the US, reports Xinhua news agency.
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The Iranian Ambassador Bahadur Aminian made the remarks in a special interview with Tolo News in Kabul.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 55,069,347 and 826,057, according to the CSSE.
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London: While the Omicron variant is considered to be “mild”, the new symptoms include nausea and loss of appetite, according to a Zoe Covid app study. According to the UK’s NHS, the symptoms of coronavirus generally include “a high temperature, a new, continuous cough, or a loss or change to your sense of smell or […]
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London: Although the Omicron variant of Covid has been shown to evade vaccines, two new studies led by the UK health agency showed that a third booster dose increases vaccines’ effectiveness by 88 per cent. The studies, led by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), found a substantial reduction in risk of hospitalisation for Omicron […]
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Cape Town: Firefighters battled a blaze at South Africa’s national Parliament complex on Sunday that sent a dark plume of smoke and flames into the air above the center of Cape Town. The fire started on the third floor of a building that houses offices and spread to the National Assembly building, where South Africa’s […]
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Jerusalem: Israel has reportedly documented the first case of “Florona” — a simultaneous infection with the Covid-19 and influenza. According to the news website Ynetnews, the double infection was first identified in a woman who went into labour at Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva. As per the hospital, the young mother is not vaccinated […]
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Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 289.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.44 million and vaccinations to over 9.16 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death […]
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Paris: People in France torched nearly 874 vehicles across the country to mark the New Year as part of their decades-old tradition, a media report said. A total of 874 vehicles were set ablaze across France on new year’s eve as part of a decades-old tradition with coronavirus-related restrictions in place, figure is lower than […]
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 54,743,982 and 825,536, according to the CSSE.
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Karachi echoed with gunfire and fireworks on Friday night, despite a restriction on celebratory firing.
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A total of 647,067 new cases and 1,409 new deaths were reported across the nation on Friday.
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The Collier County Sheriff's Office said the man was seriously injured Wednesday evening when he entered an unauthorized area near the tiger's enclosure at Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens.
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New York: A US woman was quarantined in an aeroplane bathroom for three hours after testing positive for Covid-19 halfway through a flight from Chicago to Iceland, according to media reports. Marisa Fotieo, a teacher from Michigan, said her throat began to hurt halfway through the trip on December 19 so she went to the […]
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Johannesburg: Johnson & Johnson has announced that new preliminary results from a South African study has shown that the homologous booster shot of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine (Ad26.COV2.S) demonstrated 85 per cent effectiveness against the virus-related hospitalisation in South Africa after Omicron became the dominant variant. The South African Phase 3b Sisonke study, conducted by […]
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More than 7,630 of the laboratory-confirmed Omicron cases in Germany were recorded in the 15-34 years' age group, and around 5,590 cases were identified in the 35-59 years' age group, according to the RKI on Thursday.
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A previous record had been set on Wednesday with 98,030 cases. However, Thursday's increase was the largest in one day during the two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, Xinhua news agency reported.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 54,286,545 and 824,277, according to the CSSE.
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In a tweet, Jayapal said: "Elon Musk made $36 billion in one day, but wants to brag about paying an $11 billion tax bill. Oh yeah, he also added more than $270 billion in wealth just since the pandemic started.
