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Access will be limited to allow for social distancing due to the pandemic

The challenges caused by the pandemic has left the organisers with limited financial resources

The new executive order lifts all mask requirements and forbids local authorities from penalising residents who do not wear a face covering.

The extension means that Australia's borders could have been closed to international travellers except citizens and residents for about 450 days.

Health care workers, especially those who have direct contact with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases, will be the first to get the shots.

The cause of the collision was unclear, authorities said, and it also was not immediately known why so many people were crammed into a vehicle built to hold eight people safely.

Biden on Tuesday announced measures to increase the production of COVID-19 vaccines and accelerate process of vaccinating Americans.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 28,717,629 and 516,476, respectively, according to the CSSE.

The problem with that design, apparently, was that the adhesive tape strip looked a bit too much like the moustache of Adolf Hitler, which was noticed on social media.

"I think it will be very premature, and I think unrealistic, to think that we're going to finish with this virus by the end of the year," Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, said

Hundreds, many wearing construction helmets and carrying makeshift shields, gathered in Myanmar's largest city of Yangon, where a day earlier police had fired repeated rounds of tear gas

The first secretary of Permanent Mission of India to the UN, Pawan Kumar Badhe said this in India's right of reply to statements made by Pakistan and the OIC under oral update by the high commissioner of human rights at UNHRC.

The next German government should also present a "specific timetable" for the abolition of environment and climate-damaging subsidies, the Climate Alliance added. 

The fire that started from a cloth shop at around 8.30 a.m. spread rapidly, engulfing over half of the town within a few hours, Xinhua news agency reported.

A company called 'MyHeritage' is offering a service that animates and creates a gif of any photo

Trump, a Republican, issued the ban last year, saying it was needed to protect US workers amid high unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Twitter had already banned some COVID-related misinformation in December, including falsehoods about how the virus spreads.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 28,659,784 and 514,333, respectively, according to the CSSE.

Devotees can visit the 'Hindu Temple Dubai' YouTube channel to watch the live streaming of the festival.

The 66-year-old politician, who was president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted for having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about a legal action in which he was involved.

The allegation was contained in an anonymous letter sent to the prime minister's office and to three female lawmakers last week.

Titled 'Antarctica: The Last Frontier' the exhibition is live on the website of India International Centre

"Although many people in rich countries will receive a vaccine for COVID-19 this year, many people in poor countries will likely have to wait years to get one".

In Myanmar on Sunday, a crackdown on protesters by security forces left at least 18 people dead, according to the U.N. Human Rights Office.