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Portugal to enter "contingency situation" to fight wild fires caused by he
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Lisbon [Portugal], July 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Portugal recorded 32 outbreaks of forest fires on Sunday, more than 2,000 operational agents are fighting in several municipalities in the country, according to the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection.
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Norovirus and other 'stomach viruses' can spread through saliva
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 30 (ANI): A class of viruses known to cause severe diarrheal diseases including the one famous for widespread outbreaks on cruise ships can grow in the salivary glands of mice and spread through their saliva, scientists have discovered. The findings show that a new rout
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Beijing under threat of severe COVID-19 outbreak
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 16 (ANI): The authorities in China's capital have warned that a COVID-19 surge due to the bar-related outbreaks was critical and the city is gripped with the most serious outbreak since the pandemic began.
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Saudi Arabia bans travel to 16 countries including India over new Covid ou
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Jeddah [Saudi Arabia], May 22 (ANI): Following the re-outbreak of Covid-19 and the rapid surge in the number of daily Covid infections over the past few weeks, Saudi Arabia has banned its citizens from traveling to sixteen countries, including India.
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Xi Jinping's signature Zero-Covid policy obstructs growth curve in China
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 14 (ANI): Following the country's most severe outbreaks, the Chinese premier Xi Jinping gave another blow to China's already crippled economy as he doubled down on his 'Zero-Covid policy' in an attempt to contain the rising COVID-19 infections.
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Chinese premier admits challenges in providing jobs to youth amid COVID ou
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], April 30 (ANI): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang admitted that the country faces many challenges in job creation due to recent virus outbreaks and added that the total number of new job seekers this year would hit 16.6 million, including a record 10.6 million university graduates.
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Shiv Sena Sanjay Raut questions silence of PM Modi over outbreaks of commu
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 17 (ANI): Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence over several outbreaks of communal violence incidents during Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti across the country and said that the PM must talk about "communal
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China's strict Zero-COVID policy causes chaos
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, April 11 (ANI): The other shoe has dropped for China, as it battles COVID-19 outbreaks in various locations, including Shanghai. In the past, Chinese netizens spent considerable energy mocking foreign countries as the pandemic swept unchecked, but now China's government is stru
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IET India to lead a Disease Surveillance Project with Centre for Health Re
Updated : 4 years, 2 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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Amid multiple COVID-19 outbreaks in China, Ukraine-Russia war acting as ad
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 15 (ANI): Ukraine-Russia war proves to be additional trouble for China, which is already facing disruptions in logistics, supply chain, and manufacturing operations due to multiple outbreaks of COVID-19.
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Active surveillance of Zika virus needed to prevent future outbreaks, sugg
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 11 (ANI): An Indian Council for Medical Research - National Institute of Virology (ICMR-NIV) study suggests that there is a need for active human and entomological surveillance of the Zika virus across the country to mitigate future outbreaks.
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Australia shortens COVID-19 booster vaccine interval
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], December 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Australia has reduced the booster shot interval for COVID-19 vaccines in response to nationwide Omicron outbreaks.
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