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WHO warns against relaxing pandemic fight
GENEVA: The arrival of Covid-19 vaccines should not tempt countries to relax efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic, top World…
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House approves Biden’s $1.9tr Covid-19 relief plan
WASHINGTON: The US House passed an enormous, $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package early on Saturday, hailed by Democrats as a…
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Johnson sets out cautious lockdown exit plan
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled a map out of lockdown for England on Monday that would keep some…
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US crosses 500,000th Covid-19 death
NEW YORK: The United States crossed the staggering milestone of 500,000 Covid-19 deaths on Monday — just over a year…
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French city seeks to curb tourist inflow amid virus spike
PARIS: The mayor of the French city of Nice called on Sunday for a weekend lockdown in the area to…
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South African hotel turns to robot hospitality to beat pandemic
JOHANNESBURG: Staff at Hotel Sky in Johannesburg’s wealthy Sandton district adhere to strict Covid-19 protocols, wearing masks and physically distancing…
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AstraZeneca’s vaccine gets UN approval for emergency use
TORONTO: The World Health Organisation has granted an emergency authorisation to AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the…
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New York governor acknowledges withholding nursing home pandemic death toll from lawmakers, public
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo acknowledged on Monday that his office should not have withheld data on Covid-19 nursing home…
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NZ’s largest city put under snap lockdown
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered the country’s biggest city Auckland into a snap lockdown for the first…
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Virus expected to last for long time despite vaccine rollout
STOCKHOLM: The head of the EU’s disease control agency has warned that the novel coronavirus could last indefinitely even as…
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