Covid-19 Outbreak

US State Secretary Antony Blinken during the ministerial forum on resilient supply chain appreciated India's steadfastness in supporting the country by providing medicines at a time when the US was hit badly by the Covid-19 outbreak, said…
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Covid-19 cases in Shanghai continued to climb as parts of China’s financial hub face more rounds of mass testing, with new sub-variants providing a constant challenge to the country’s zero-tolerance approach to the virus. The city recorded…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials discussed revising stringent anti-epidemic restrictions during a meeting Sunday, state media reported, as they maintained a widely disputed claim that the country’s first Covid-19…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the Covid-19 outbreak in North Korea is worrying for new variants of the virus, as the country is battling a rapid spread of a mysterious fever since late April. Addressing a press…
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The North Korean authorities confirmed eight more deaths in the country, as well as upwards of 3.5 lakh fresh cases of “fever” symptoms in the midst of one of the most rapidly growing Covid-19 outbreaks recorded in the world. It is likely…
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Six people have died and 350,000 have been treated for a fever that has spread “explosively” across North Korea, state media said Friday, a day after acknowledging a COVID-19 outbreak for the first time in the pandemic. North Korea likely…
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The Omicron subvariants may burn themselves out in the next couple of months and there could be another outbreak of Delta or a different coronavirus strain this summer, according to a modelling study conducted in Israel. The finding,…
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The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai remains “extremely grim” amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday. Director of Shanghai's working group on…
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The Federal Reserve raised US interest rates on Wednesday for the first time since the 2020 outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and said there could be another six hikes this year if inflation remains high. Although US economic growth was…
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Hong Kong health officials warned on Saturday of a significantly worsening Covid-19 outbreak in the Asian financial hub as suspected infection numbers rose in a congested residential area. Health officials said some 26 confirmed cases and…
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