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Safety Paramount: WHO on Johnson & Johnson halting COVID-19 vaccine tr
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organisation (WHO) believes that safety in research is crucial and is pleased to see developers acting by the rules, the WHO spokesperson told Sputnik regarding Johnson & Johnson suspending its vaccine trials.
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Hotel owners rally in Paris, demand State aid amid COVID-19 crisis
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Paris [France], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Hotel owners have partially blocked traffic on the Ring Road in the French capital of Paris, demanding that authorities provide support packages to the crisis-hit industry after restrictive measures were intensified following a surge in COVID-19 infe
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Russia's COVID-19 daily growth hits new record with 13,868 new cases
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia has registered 13,868 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, up from 13,592 on Monday, breaking the daily growth record and taking the cumulative case total to 1,326,178, the country's coronavirus response center said on Tuesday.
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Argentina's coronavirus case tally tops 900,000
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Argentina has risen by 9,524 over the past 24 hours to 903,730, the country's Health Ministry has said in a statement.
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Czech govt to ban groups of over six persons to prevent COVID-19 spread fr
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Prague [Czech Republic], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The Czech government is tightening measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus from October 14 and will ban gathering in groups of more than six people, Prime Minister Andrej Babis told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
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Alarming spike in daily COVID-19 infections reported in South Korea
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): South Korea registered 102 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, marking the first time since the start of this month that over 100 daily cases were reported, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).
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Civilian death toll from hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh rises to 31
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Yerevan [Armenia], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Artak Beglaryan, the human rights ombudsman of the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, said on Monday that at least 31 civilians had died since the hostilities broke out in the disputed region last month.
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World's largest vivid pink diamond from russia to be auctioned on November
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): One of the world's largest fancy vivid purple-pink and internally flawless diamonds from Russia will be sold at Sotheby's Geneva Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels auction on November 11, media reported on Monday.
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WHO expects to see COVID-19 vaccine by end of 2020 at earliest
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that a vaccine against the coronavirus disease will be ready for registration by the end of 2020 or early next year at the earliest, Soumya Swaminathan, the WHO chief scientist, said on Monday.
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170 Talibs dead as Afghan forces launch counteroffensive in Helmand
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Helmand [Afghanistan], October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): A total of 170 Taliban terrorists have been killed in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand after government forces moved to retake territories following the movement's days-long offensive in the region, the provincial police chief said o
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WHO says each of last four days brought highest number of COVID-19 cases r
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The COVID-19 cases have been increasing around the world, each of the last four days saw the highest number of new cases yet, Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday.
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3 killed, another 3 injured in shooting at bus stop in Russia
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia] October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Three people were killed, another three were injured in a shooting at a bus stop in the village of Bolshiye Orly in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, a spokesperson for the regional emergency services told Sputnik.
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