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Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was tested for COVID-19 late Tuesday after being deemed a casual contact. The testing followed his attendance at a school graduation ceremony in Sydney last Friday. A COVID-19 case was later found to be among the 1,000-person event. Morrison’s office confirmed he was deemed a casual contact by New […]
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Milan: Italian women are having dramatically fewer babies than ever during the pandemic, accentuating one of the world’s lowest birth rates, the Italian statistics agency ISTAT said Tuesday. The month of January 2021, 10 months after Italy’s draconian lockdown, marked the lowest birth rate ever — a 13.6 per cent decline over the same month […]
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Hyderabad: Dogecoin saw a huge leap of 19.31% after Tesla boss Elon Musk took to twitter to announce that the company would accept the meme coin for purchase of merchandise. Musk’s tweet saying “Tesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,” helped the meme coin gain immensely. The Tesla CEO […]
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Washington: Pfizer said Tuesday that its experimental pill to treat COVID-19 appears effective against the omicron variant. The company also said full results of its 2,250-person study confirmed the pill’s promising early results against the virus: The drug reduced combined hospitalisations and deaths by about 89 per cent among high-risk adults when taken shortly after […]
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Johannesburg: A two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination provides just 33 per cent protection against infection by the omicron variant of the coronavirus, but 70 per cent protection against hospitalisation, according to a large-scale analysis in South Africa released Tuesday. The first large-scale analysis of vaccine effectiveness in the region where the new variant was discovered appears to […]
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Los Angeles: California will reimpose its indoor mask mandate from Wednesday to prepare for an anticipated increase of Covid-19 cases due to gatherings during the year-end holidays and the emergence of the new Omicron variant, the Department of Public Health said. The mask mandate will last at least a month, at which time the state […]
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London: The number of daily Omicron infections in the UK has been estimated as being at 200,000, according to the UK Health Security Agency. The estimates based on modelling come after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a televised statement on Sunday, warned that Britain faces a “tidal wave” of Omicron infections. Health secretary Sajid […]
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Madrid: The eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Spanish island of La Palma has continued for 87 days, has hit a new record of being the longest than the previous one in 1585. The eruption began on September 19, three-days longer than the 84-day record set in 1585, reports Xinhua news agency. Only […]
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Jakarta: Starting from Tuesday, Indonesia will start vaccinating children aged six to 11 years old against Covid-19, targeting 26.5 million kids, according to the Ministry of Health. The vaccine to be used is China’s Sinovac, the only one to obtain an emergency use authorization for this age group from Indonesia’s National Agency of Drug and […]
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Jakarta: A magnitude 7.3 undersea earthquake has struck off Indonesia’s Flores Island, and the country’s meteorological agency is warning that tsunami waves are possible. According to the US Geological Survey, the quake on Tuesday hit at a depth of 18.5 kilometers (11.5 miles) under the sea, and was located 112 kilometers (74 miles) north of […]
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London: The UK has seen its first death from Omicron, even as the latest variant of the coronavirus is expected to comprise 50 per cent of the cases in London by Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. “Sadly yes, Omicron is producing hospitalisations and sadly at least one patient has been confirmed to […]
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Singapore: Two lions were shot with a tranquilliser gun and sedated on Sunday at Singapore’s Changi Airport after they got out of their freight container, triggering a mild scare in the vicinity, a media report said here. The lions, currently recovering from sedation under the care of the Mandai Wildlife Group, were being transported in […]
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Beijing: China on Monday marked the 84th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre, in which hundreds of thousands of civilians and disarmed soldiers were killed by Japanese troops in and around the former Chinese capital. A People’s Liberation Army honor guard bearing large funeral wreaths marched slowly past a memorial showing the figure 300,000, China’s official […]
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 49,919,637 and 797,345, according to the CSSE.
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Two people have been so far pulled from the rubble alive, the Fire Corps said, while 50 families have been evacuated from surrounding buildings, according to RAI News 24 public broadcaster.
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The Canadian government has issued weather warnings for the province's southern areas over strong winds gusting up to 90 or 100 kilometres per hour (55 to 62 miles per hour).
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The coalition conducted 36 operations against Houthi targets in the oil rich province of Marib in the period, the Saudi Press Agency tweeted.
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"We know that we are likely to have more than 50 deaths, if not significantly north of that, from this event," Beshear said.
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Baghdad: The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said that it has evacuated 417 Iraqi migrants stranded in Belarus due to the ongoing crisis at the latter country’s border with European nations. “A ninth evacuation flight was operated for those who wanted to return voluntarily, with 417 Iraqi passengers on board,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Sahaf said in […]
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"The Omicron variant of concern is a cruel reminder that a global epidemiological situation can change quickly. We all need to be prepared for that," Xinhua news agency quoted Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos as saying.
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According to The Verge, the bill was announced by Democratic Aenators Chris Coons (Delaware), Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), and also Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 49,833,432 and 796,749, according to the CSSE.
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Johannesburg: While Covid cases in South Africa driven by the super mutant Omicron variant have surged 255 per cent in the last week, the infections are showing milder symptoms than seen in the last three waves, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the WHO, Africa currently accounted for 46 per cent of […]
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The federal Attorney General's Office said the preliminary estimate lists 53 dead, with three of the injured in critical condition.
