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Turkey accused of trading Uyghurs for Chinese COVID-19 vaccine: Report
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], January 20 (ANI): Turkey started mass vaccination against COVID-19 with China's 'Sinovac' vaccine but its orders for the vaccine suffered many delays, which led to the Turkish opposition questioning whether Ankara was being punished for dragging its feet in ratifying an e
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France registers 23,608 new COVID-19 cases, 656 deaths
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Paris [France], January 20 (ANI/Xinhua): France registered 23,608 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing its accumulative total since the outbreak of the epidemic to 2,938,333, data from the health authorities showed on Tuesday.
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UK registers largest single-day rise in COVID-19 deaths to 1,610
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], January 20 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll rose by 1,610 on Tuesday, the largest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic, the UK Department for Health and Social Care said.
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Pakistan crosses grim milestone of 11k COVID-19 deaths
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 19 (ANI): The number of coronavirus deaths in Pakistan reached 11,055 on Tuesday according to the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) tally.
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Russia registers 21,734 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 21,734 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, down from 22,857 the day before, taking the tally to 3,612,800, the coronavirus response center said on Tuesday.
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Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture to introduce alert mode over UK Covid variant
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): The Shizuoka prefecture in Japan is to declare a high alert mode over the spread of the UK strain of the coronavirus, which was recently found in people with no record of traveling to the United Kingdom, the NHK public broadcaster reported on Tuesday
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Number of COVID-19 cases in US surpass 24 million
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Baltimore [US], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the United States has surpassed 24 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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US COVID-19 cases surpass 24 million mark
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 19 (ANI): As the US continues to remain the worst affected country due to COVID-19, the cumulative count of the cases has crossed 24 million as of Monday.
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WHO chief warns against COVID-19 vaccine distribution, says 'world is on b
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 19 (ANI): As several countries have rolled out coronavirus vaccines, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has questioned the fairness in the distribution of the vaccines and said that the world is on the "brink of a catastr
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India to gift 2 mln doses of COVID-19 vaccine 'Covishield' to Bangladesh
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 19 (ANI): Bangladesh will receive 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine 'Covishield' as a gift from India on January 20.
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Disneyland Paris postpones re-opening to April 2 amid surge in COVID-19 ca
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Paris [France], January 19 (ANI): Amid the continuous surge in coronavirus cases in Europe, Disneyland Paris has announced its decision to postpone its re-opening from February 13 to April 2.
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New York COVID-19 test positivity rate down to 8.29 pc
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], January 19 (ANI/Xinhua): New York City's COVID-19 test positivity rate on a seven-day average went down to 8.29 percent, compared with 8.6 percent two days earlier, Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted on Monday. He did not announce such a rate on Sunday.
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