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Kabul: The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan said that the country does not have equipment to detect Omicron, adding that it has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide testing machines for the new fast-spreading Covid-19 variant. Both Pakistan and Iran, the two countries that share borders with Afghanistan, have confirmed cases of the new […]
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San Francisco: Popular short video-sharing platform Tiktok has topped the chart of downloads on Christmas Day this year. According to mobile data and analytics company App Annie, the number of downloads on December 25 globally was estimated across both iOS and Google Play Stores. TikTok led the chart of Christmas Day downloads ahead of Instagram, […]
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Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned that the more transmissible Omicron together with the currently circulating Delta variants might lead to “a tsunami of cases,” putting immense pressure on national health systems. Recapping WHO’s response since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said at a […]
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Jeddah: The Gulf countries are witnessing a surge in daily coronavirus cases and gradually reintroducing social distancing norms. The GCC states also made it mandatory for all the people to have a third dose or booster shot. The regional hub, UAE, reported the highest number of daily coronavirus cases with 2,234 cases on Wednesday. The […]
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London: One of the epicentres of the Omicron variant — has seen a drop of about 40 per cent in new cases of Covid infection, suggesting that the new variant could be less severe than Delta. The seven day rolling average for new infections plummeted by 35 per cent from an all-time high of 23,000 […]
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Geneva: The overall risk associated with the Omicron variant remains ‘very high’ which could cause widespread disruption to health systems and other critical services, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. In its weekly epidemiological update, the WHO said on Tuesday that “The overall risk related to the new variant of concern Omicron remains very […]
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Shanghai: With two new metro lines set to go into operation on Thursday, the total length of Shanghai’s metro network will extend to 831 km, continuing to be the longest in the world, according to authorities. The opening of the two new lines will bring the total number of fully automatic metro lines in Shanghai […]
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Washington: Amid the global surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, almost 3,000 flights have been cancelled and more than 11,500 flights have been delayed worldwide on Tuesday. A total of 2,969 flight cancellations and 11,512 flight delays worldwide on Tuesday, with 1,172 of the cancellations and 5,458 of the delays occurring within, into, or […]
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Washington: Over 7.5 million children have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic in the US, representing 1 in 10 American children, according to the latest report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association. A total of 7,565,416 child Covid-19 cases had been reported across the country […]
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Khartoum: At least 38 people have been killed after a gold mine collapsed in West Kordofan state in southern Sudan, a government company announced in a statement. “The General Manager of the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company Limited mourns the death of 38 miners who died as a result of the collapse of Umm Draisaya mine,” […]
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Johannesburg: Omicron cases are rapidly expanding worldwide, often coupled with infections caused by the Delta variant. A new study led by an international team of researchers from South Africa, the US and Germany has now shown that the vaccine evading Omicron enhances neutralising immunity of the Delta variant. The study, posted on pre-print server and […]
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Seoul: About 78 per cent of salaried workers in South Korea support the 52-hour workweek that was introduced in 2018 to reduce long working hours, a Labour Ministry survey revealed on Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,300 people, 71 per cent said the reduction of the maximum weekly working hours to 52 from 68 […]
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Seoul: The annual salary of South Korean President Moon Jae-in for 2022 was set at 240.6 million won ($202,815) as the Cabinet approved the personnel and management ministry’s pay raise plan for public servants on Tuesday. According to the plan, public servants will get a 1.4 per cent raise for their salary for 2022. Prime […]
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London: A video has surfaced on social media in which a fully masked man, identifying himself as an Indian Sikh, is seen declaring to “assassinate” Queen Elizabeth II to avenge the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, prompting Scotland yard to launch a probe, days after an intruder was arrested at the monarch’s Windsor Castle. The video, […]
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Hyderabad: There is great beauty in the skies. From our nearest neighbours to the most distant galaxies, the cosmos is a wonder to behold. Astronomers rarely use their telescopes to simply take pictures. The pictures in astrophysics are usually generated by a process of scientific inference and imagination. These five images are produced by publicly-funded […]
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According to the New York State Health Department, the increase was observed in children 18 and under beginning the week of December 5 through the current week, ABC News 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 52,259,716 and 816,597, according to the CSSE.
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More than 35,000 people have been forced from their homes, according to Bahia's civil defence and protection agency, reported CNN.
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The highly transmissible variant has outpaced Delta, to become the dominant variant, accounting for nearly three-quarters of Covid cases in the country.
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Boston: Researchers have projected the rates of liver disease and associated deaths due to increased alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research has been published in the ‘Hepatology Journal’. A team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital used data from a national survey of US adults on their drinking habits that found that […]
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Johannesburg: Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90. An uncompromising foe of apartheid — South Africa’s brutal regime of oppression against the Black majority — Tutu worked tirelessly, though […]
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New Delhi: Described as the Apollo moment for science, NASA’s James Webb telescope — on its way toward its destination in orbit about 1 million miles from Earth — has begun six months of commissioning in space, before it scouts for first galaxies and distant worlds. At the end of commissioning, the world’s largest and […]
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Washington (US): James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful space telescope ever constructed, will lift off on Christmas. The USD 10 billion project spanning over three decades, a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, hopes to look further back in time than ever before – to find […]
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Kathmandu: Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is likely to visit India in early January, sources familiar with the development confirmed to ANI. As per the sources at Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi already has extended an invitation for the visit to his Nepali counterpart inviting him for visit […]
