Tag: #covid20
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Covid Death Toll Continues To Rise in Pakistan
KARACHI, Jan 02 (APP): Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that 12 more patients of COVID-19 died overnight lifting the death toll to 3,594 and 1004 new cases emerged when 13,886 tests were conducted raising the tally to 217,636. This he said in a statement issued here from CM House on Saturday.…
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Covid Vaccine in Argentina
Buenos Aires, Dec 29 (AFP/APP): Argentina on Tuesday launched a Covid-19 vaccination campaign with the Sputnik V shots developed by Russia, the government said. It is the first country in the Americas to use this vaccine against the pandemic. The vaccination drive began simultaneously around the country with frontline healthcare workers given priority, Health Minister…
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Fawad Chaudhry on Corona Vaccine
LAHORE, Dec 27 (APP): Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said that the government will try its best to cover a big chunk of the population with free-of-cost coronavirus vaccine. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, he said that private companies would be given permission to import coronavirus vaccine. He…
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Journalist Arrested for Talking About Corona Vaccine
Amman, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): Jordan has arrested a journalist over an article alleging the coronavirus vaccine had arrived in the kingdom and that officials had received the jab, a judicial source said Saturday. “The state security court prosecutor ordered the arrest Thursday of journalist Jamal Haddad, editor of news website Al-Wakaai, for writing that government…
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Fire in Cairo Killed 7 Patients
Cairo, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): A fire at a hospital north of Cairo on Saturday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and judicial sources said. The blaze in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Obour district, on the outskirts of Cairo, also injured five other people, the sources said. It was not immediately clear what…
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Premier League club Wolves Banned from Shopping!
London, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): Premier League club Wolves have banned their players from shopping amid fears they could catch coronavirus with infections rising across England. Testing on players and staff in England’s top-flight is to double to twice a week in areas of the country under tier four restrictions. The latest round of testing in…
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Mutant Coronavirus Found in Madrid
Madrid, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): Four cases of a coronavirus variant believed to be particularly infectious that recently emerged in Britain have been confirmed in Madrid, the regional government said Saturday, the first cases detected in Spain. All four cases involved people who recently arrived from the UK, the Madrid regional government’s deputy health chief Antonio…
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Coronavirus has Killed Almost 2 Million People since Last year
Paris, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,750,780 people since the outbreak last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled at 11:00 GMT on Saturday. At least 79,758,000 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these, at least 50,405,700 are now considered recovered. The tallies, using data collected from…
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Mutant Corona Virus Found in France
Paris, Dec 25 (AFP/APP): The first case of a particularly infectious coronavirus variant that recently emerged in Britain has been confirmed in France, the health ministry said on Friday. The person; a French citizen living in Britain, is asymptomatic and self-isolating at home in Tours in central France, the ministry said. The person arrived from…
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Truckers Stranded near Britush Port on Christmas
London, Dec 24 (AFP/APP): Thousands of truckers endured Christmas Eve stranded near a major British port, ensnared in the chaos unleashed by a new coronavirus strain, as Western nations accelerated vaccination programmes. European nations on Wednesday had started easing travel bans on Britain to contain a new coronavirus strain that UK officials believe spreads faster,…