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Two COVID-19 cases registered at migrant camp on Polish-Belarusian border
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Minsk [Belarus], November 29 (ANI/Sputnik): Two coronavirus cases have been confirmed among migrants at the Polish-Belarusian border, Governor of the Belarusian Grodno Region, Vladimir Karanik, said.
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COVID: Canada confirms two cases of Omicron variant
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], November 29 (ANI/Sputnik): The first two cases of the new, Omicron, coronavirus strain have been confirmed in Canada, the Ontario government says.
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Maharashtra: A South Africa returnee tests positive for COVID; samples wil
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 29 (ANI): A person, who returned from South Africa to Dombivli, has been tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, said the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC).
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COVID: South Africa's Health Minister unhappy with international reaction
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], November 29 (ANI/Sputnik): South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla told Sputnik on Sunday that he is unhappy with the travel restrictions that many nations imposed on his country and its neighbours after the emergence of the new Omicron coronavirus strain.
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Important to be alarmed, no need to panic: Expert on COVID 'Omicron' varia
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Nadia (West Bengal) [India], November 28 (ANI): Following the emergence of the new coronavirus Variant of Concern 'Omicron', an expert of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics said it is important to be alarmed and informed about the variant but there is no need to panic.
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Omicron strain found in 13 people arriving in Netherlands from South Afric
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], November 28 (ANI/Sputnik): Thirteen people who arrived in the Netherlands from South Africa tested positive for the Omicron coronavirus variant, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment said on Sunday.
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Indonesia bans international visitors from 8 African countries
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], November 28 (ANI/Xinhua): Indonesia has banned international visitors who have travel histories from eight African countries in the last 14 days, to prevent transmission of the new, more contagious variant of coronavirus Omicron to the country, an official said on Sunday
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Netherlands reports 13 cases of Omicron variant
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], November 28 (ANI/Xinhua): The Dutch health authority said Sunday that it has found 13 cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant among passengers on flights from South Africa.
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Philippines imposes travel ban on seven more countries over Omicron varian
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], November 28 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines on Sunday imposed travel restrictions on seven European countries to keep out the potentially more contagious new coronavirus variant Omicron, a government spokesman said on Sunday.
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First case of Omicron variant confirmed in Italy
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], November 28 (ANI/Xinhua): The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been identified in a citizen from Italy's southern Campania region, who returned to Milan from Mozambique "some days ago," Italian news agency ANSA reported Sunday.
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Omicron COVID variant threat: South Korea to restrict visa issuance, arriv
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], November 28 (ANI/Sputnik): South Korea's government restricted on Sunday the issuance of visas and travel from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe amid the spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, Yonhap news agency r
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COVID: Pakistan records 303 cases, 5 deaths amid 'Omicron' threat
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad, [Pakistan] November 28 (ANI): Amid the global threat of a new COVID variant 'Omnicron', Pakistan has reported over 303 COVID-19 cases and five more people have succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours on Sunday, taking the death toll to 28,709.
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