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Mauritius to suspend air traffic from 6 countries in Southern Africa: Fore
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Port Louis [Mauritius], November 28 (ANI/Sputnik): Mauritius will suspend flights from six countries in Southern Africa starting Sunday amid the spreading new Omicron coronavirus variant, the foreign ministry said on Saturday.
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South Africa to share Omicron strain samples with foreign biosecurity bodi
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): South Africa will share the samples of the new Omicron coronavirus variant with biosecurity agencies of other nations, the director of the country's Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Tulio de Oliveira, said on Saturday.
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Five bodies recovered from Listvyazhnaya mine: Russian emergencies ministr
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): Rescuers found five bodies of miners at Listvyazhnaya mine in southwestern Siberia while conducting emergency rescue operations, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said Saturday.
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UN chief welcomes recent trilateral meeting on Karabakh
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomes the recent meeting of the Russian, Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders and notes Moscow's contribution to resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the UN chief's office said on Saturday.
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Russia hopes AUKUS will abandon nuclear submarine project: Envoy in Vienna
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): Moscow expects that Australia, the UK and the US will abandon plans to implement the project on nuclear submarines as part of the AUKUS partnership, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, said S
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Czech Republic testing traveler from Namibia for Omicron strain
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Prague [Czech Republic], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): The central laboratory of the Czech Health Ministry is testing a woman who arrived from Namibia for the new Omicron coronavirus variant, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Saturday.
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Spain: Police protest against security law reform in Madrid
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Madrid [Spain], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): Thousands of police officers protested in Madrid on Saturday over the controversial security law reform, which is popularly called the "gag law."
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Over 60 people arriving from South Africa to Netherlands test positive for
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): Coronavirus has been detected in 61 passengers from two KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flights arriving in the Netherlands from South Africa, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported on Saturday.
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At least one dead in gas explosion in southern Ukraine
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kiev [Ukraine], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): A woman's body has been discovered at the site of a gas explosion in a five-floor residential building in the Ukrainian city of Nova Odesa, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service (SES) said on Saturday.
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Germany lacks 35,000 health workers to care for elderly, sick
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): Germany lacks at least 35,000 health workers to care for the sick and elderly, the national daily newspaper Welt reported on Saturday citing data from the Competence Center for Securing Skilled Employees (KOFA) at the German Institute of Economics
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Japan restricts entry from three more African countries over Omicron varia
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): The Japanese government has decided to impose restrictions on travel from Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia over the concern about the Omicron coronavirus strain, the Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.
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South African medical association says Omicron variant causes 'mild diseas
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): The new Omicron variant of the coronavirus results in mild disease, without prominent syndromes, Angelique Coetzee, the chairwoman of the South African Medical Association, told Sputnik on Saturday.
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