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China logs 2,086 new local COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 2 (ANI): Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, China reported 2,086 new locally-transmitted COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, versus 1,787 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said on Saturday.
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Deeba Salim's "355 Days" won Excellence in Writing Award by Nissim Interna
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 30 (ANI/PNN): Patience pays off; delayed by a year or 355 days due to the COVID outbreak, author Deeba Salim Irfan's latest novel 355 Days, launched and awarded in The Significant League's award granting ceremony at the Press Club, New Delhi.
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Strict lockdown policy cut down China's GDP by half
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 30 (ANI): In the last few weeks, China has seen its worst COVID outbreak since the initial height of the pandemic in early 2020 when the economy slumped. The latest surge in cases could hit first-quarter gross domestic product by at least half of a percentage point.
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China imposes two-phase COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 28 (ANI): Amid the new COVID-19 outbreak in the country, the Chinese city of Shanghai is going into a two-phase lockdown starting on Monday.
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Flight services to Hyderabad, Bengaluru will boost tourism sector in Puduc
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Puducherry [India], March 28 (ANI): Flight services from Puducherry to Hyderabad and Bengaluru resumed on Sunday after being suspended for two years following the outbreak of the pandemic Covid-19.
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Death toll of Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria rises to 123
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Abuja [Nigeria], March 28 (ANI/Xinhua): The death toll of Lassa fever in Nigeria this year has risen to 123 amid ongoing measures by the government to reduce infections across the country, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said Sunday.
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Ineffectiveness of vaccine and Zero Covid policy spell trouble for China
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 25 (ANI): While the situation in the once-seriously-affected Covid-19-hit countries are slowly getting back to normalcy, China is struggling hard to control the rising cases now.
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IET India to lead a Disease Surveillance Project with Centre for Health Re
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 23 (ANI/NewsVoir): The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) India is leading a Disease Surveillance Project in partnership with CHRI (Centre for Health Research and Innovation) that will use publicly available non-personal data to improve India
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China turns its back on Sri Lanka economic crisis
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], March 23 (ANI): China refused to assist Sri Lanka which appealed to reschedule its huge Chinese debt burden in the face of the Covid-19 outbreak that has adversely affected the tourism sector, said a media report.
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Health experts slam Pakistan's Sindh govt failing to provide safe sanitati
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], March 22 (ANI): As the number of patients, including children, are being brought to hospitals in Karachi and other parts of Sindh due to acute gastroenteritis, continues to rise, Pakistani health expert and senior gastroenterologist, Dr Sajjad Jamil slammed Karachi water
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Amid biggest COVID-19 outbreak, China imposes stay-at-home orders on milli
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 20 (ANI): China has imposed stay-at-home orders on millions of more people in the country's northeast, as the nation is facing its worst COVID-19 surge since the pandemic first emerged in the city of Wuhan, Al Jazeera reported.
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Hong Kong to exclude large companies 'unaffected by COVID fifth wave' from
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Hong Kong, March 19 (ANI): Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that the country will exclude the large supermarkets and pharmacy chains, as well as other businesses from the next round of government wage subsidies, who remain "unaffected" from the fifth-wave of Covid-19 outbreak.
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