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More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever since the start of the year, official figures showed, in the country’s worst recorded outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease. Figures from the country’s Directorate General…
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A cholera outbreak in Iraq claimed its first victim Tuesday, with 17 new cases recorded in the country within 24 hours, a health ministry spokesperson said. The death was recorded in the northern province of Kirkuk, the ministry’s Seif…
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Beijing authorities extended work-from-home guidance for many of its 22 million residents to stem a persistent COVID-19 outbreak, while Shanghai deployed more testing and curbs to hold on to its hard-won ‘zero COVID’ status after two months…
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Tottenham’s Premier League game at Brighton on Sunday has been postponed due to a severe coronavirus outbreak at the north London club. Eight Tottenham players and five staff members have tested positive for the virus, forcing the…
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The US government's ban on coronavirus evictions ends at midnight Saturday, putting millions of American renters at risk of being evicted. The US House of Representatives rejected a meeting without reviewing tenant protection measures…
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Officials from Pakistan’s embassy in Tehran were on Thursday liaising with Iranian authorities over a border closure prompted by rising numbers of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in a frontier town. The Iran–Pakistan border is…
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Today, Thursday, India directed a specific request to Egypt to alleviate the "Corona disaster", in light of the worsening epidemic crisis in the Asian country recently. Indian Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said,…
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A lockdown in the New Zealand city of Auckland will end at midnight, the government announced Wednesday after concluding a coronavirus outbreak had been contained. “This is good news,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. The nation’s…
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