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South Korea's daily COVID-19 cases hit record high, surpassing 27,000
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], February 4 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea's daily number of COVID-19 cases hit a new record high, surpassing 27,000 for the first time amid the spread of the Omicron variant of the virus, the health authorities said Friday.
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COVID-19: Parl panel seeks relaxations in tourism, culture industries
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 3 (ANI): The chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee for Transport, Tourism and Culture, TG Venkatesh, on Thursday, said that as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is not more serious than the Delta variant, the government should relax the restrictions in touri
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S Korea's daily COVID-19 cases hit record high of over 22,000
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], February 3 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea's daily number of COVID-19 cases hit a new record high, surpassing 22,000 for the first time amid the spread of the Omicron variant, the health authorities said Thursday.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tests positive for COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], February 1 (ANI): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive for COVID-19 as the country sees a continuing rise in the Omicron variant and is also faced with trucker protests against coronavirus restrictions, reported CNN News.
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COVID-19 Omicron variant lung damage 'milder than Delta in animals': Study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], January 31 (ANI): Studies conducted by a group of international researchers on Monday said that the COVID-19 variant Omicron causes less severe symptoms in the lungs of hamsters than the Delta variant.
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Brazil registers 134,175 new daily COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Brasilia [Brazil], January 31 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil's Ministry of Health on Sunday reported 134,175 COVID-19 cases and 330 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the country's total caseload and death toll to 25,348,797 and 626,854 respectively.
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Mandaviya to hold review meet today with 5 states over COVID-19 situation
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 29 (ANI): Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will virtually review the COVID-19 situation, public health preparedness as well as response measures being taken in the context of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chha
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Omicron replaces Delta as dominant variant with 67.5 pc positivity rate in
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 29 (ANI): Karnataka Health Minister Sudhakar K on Friday said that statistics show that the Delta variant of COVID-19 has become less dominant which is now replaced by the Omicron variant of the virus as against the second wave in the country when th
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Mandaviya to hold review meeting with 5 states on COVID-19 situation tomor
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will virtually review the COVID-19 situation, public health preparedness and response measures being taken in the context of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh o
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No change to ICC Women's ODI World Cup schedule, confirms Tournament CEO
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Auckland [New Zealand], January 28 (ANI): The Women's ODI World Cup will take place as per schedule across the six venues in New Zealand, from March 4, tournament CEO Andrea Nelson has said.
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New Zealand reports 105 new community cases of COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Wellington [New Zealand], January 28 (ANI/Xinhua): New Zealand reported 105 new COVID-19 cases in the community on Friday, including 15 infections with the Omicron variant of the virus, bringing the total tally in the country's current community outbreak to 11,713.
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COVID-19: Omicron found in 94 per cent of positive samples in Kerala, says
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], January 28 (ANI): Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Thursday said that most of the positive COVID-19 samples, sent for the genome sequencing, are being tested positive for the Omicron variant of the virus while there are fewer Delta variant samples.
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