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Bangladesh will start the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine distribution from early February.

A year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the US is still fighting a brutal battle against the virus as its total number of infections has topped 25 million.

The Sindhi Guru Darbar Temple is one of the oldest Hindu temples in the country, open since the 1950s.

The explosion occurred around 6 am (local time) near a residential area in Jinzhou district of Dalian.

An investigation is underway, but there is currently no information on suspects or the motive behind the shooting.

Arrivals will be banned and landings will be permitted only in a few exceptions including cargo flights, medical emergencies, and fire service flights.

The president has long resisted lockdown measures against the new coronavirus, arguing economic damage would be worse than the disease.

As of Monday morning, the country's overall caseload has increased to 1,752,347, while the death toll stood at 149,614, currently the fourth largest in the world.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 25,123,857 and 419,204, respectively.

"During a recent tracking process involving a mass outbreak, health authorities found that a pet has tested positive for Covid-19 in the first such case," Yonhap News Agency

In Pakistan, 98 per cent of the households own a mobile phone whereas penetration of mobile services reached 81.1 per cent at the end of October 2020.

Twenty-two miners were trapped about 600 meters underground following an explosion on January 10 at a partially built gold mine in Qixia, under the city of Yantai, in Shandong Province.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said on Sunday the case was a 56-year-old woman who recently returned from Europe.

The Liberian-flagged Mozart was sailing from Lagos, Nigeria, to Cape Town in South Africa when it was attacked 185 km northwest of the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe on Saturday morning.

Biden also noted the importance of cooperation, including through multilateral organisations, on shared challenges such as combatting climate change, containing COVID-19.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,639,684, while the country's death toll soared to 153,184.

No cause of death was given, but CNN reported on January 2 that King had been hospitalised for more than a week with COVID-19

India this week announced that it will send COVID-19 vaccines under grant assistance to Sri Lanka and seven other countries - Bhutan, the Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Seychelles, Afghanistan and Mauritius.

The artiste comes across a varied set of people in the emirate

The WHO had granted emergency use validation for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on December 31, 2020, opening the door for countries to expedite their own regulatory approval processes to import and administer the vaccine.

Addressing a press conference on Friday, Governor of Sao Paulo Joao Doria said that these measures, which will be in force until February 7

According to a New York Times report, in a memo sent to Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the intelligence agency said it buys location data from brokers "and that the data isn't separated by whether a person lives in the US or outside of it".

The cyclone is expected to make landfall near Beira in central Mozambique on Saturday morning, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the UN's authoritative voice on weather, climate and water.

Sanders said, I was just sitting there trying to keep warm, trying to pay attention to what was going on." Apart from his bundled-up look, his mittens grabbed many eyeballs and went viral on social media.