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France registers 23,608 new COVID-19 cases, 656 deaths
Updated : 5 years, 1 month 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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Epidemics top the world's short-term risks: WEF
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 19 (ANI): Infectious diseases, extreme weather and livelihood crises pose a critical threat to the world in the next two years, according to the latest survey by World Economic Forum (WEF) members from business, government and academia.
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China's Shijiazhuang maintains stay-at-home order for COVID-19 control
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Shijiazhuang [China], January 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Residents of Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, are required to keep staying at home until January 19 to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to the city's epidemic prevention and control headquarters office.
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Belgium's COVID-19 death toll tops 20,000
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], January 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Belgium has recorded a total of 20,038 COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the epidemic, the public health institute Sciensano reported on Sunday.
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Myanmar reports 574 new COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar recorded 574 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 14 more deaths from the coronavirus epidemic in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Health Ministry on Saturday.
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Taiwan confirms second coronavirus variant case
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], January 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Taiwan has confirmed the second case infected with a new variant of the coronavirus, according to the island's epidemic monitoring agency.
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France reports 384 COVID-19-related deaths in hospitals
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Paris [France], December 30 (ANI/Xinhua): With 384 more deaths from coronavirus reported in hospitals in the past 24 hours, together with a one-week sum of 585 COVID-19 deaths in elder houses and other social care institutions, France has lost 64,078 lives to the disease since the epidemic b
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Over 200 people booked under Kerala epidemic act for flouting Covid-19 pr
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], December 26 (ANI): Over 200 people have been booked under the epidemic diseases act 2020 in Kerala on Friday night for flouting Covid-19 norms, police said on Saturday.
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Taiwan reports first Covid-19 local infection after eight months
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], December 22 (ANI/Xinhua): Taiwan reported its first locally-infected COVID-19 case since April 12, the local epidemic monitoring agency said Tuesday.
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Make plan under NDMA, Epidemic Act for quick response to COVID-like crisis
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 21 (ANI): A national plan should be formulated under National Disaster Management Act (NDMA), 2005 and Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 for co-ordination between the centre, states and UTs for quick response to a crisis like a coronavirus in future, the Parliamentar
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France's coronavirus epidemic trend raises concern, says official
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Paris [France], December 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Jerome Salomon, the French director for public health, said the evolution of the coronavirus outbreak in his country was concerning, after incidence almost doubled since last week.
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New approach can improve COVID-19 predictions worldwide
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], December 15 (ANI): Methods currently used for predicting the development of COVID-19 and other pandemics fail to report precisely on the best and worst-case scenarios. Newly developed prediction method for epidemics, published in Nature Physics, solve this problem.
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