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4 million Indonesian medical workers to get 4th dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], July 27 (ANI/Xinhua): Four million medical workers will receive a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine amid increasing transmissions triggered by the virus' sub-variants in Indonesia, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Wednesday.
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Vietnam reports 748 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Hanoi [Vietnam], July 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam recorded 748 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down by 324 from Saturday, according to its Ministry of Health.
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Vietnam reports 1,072 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Hanoi [Vietnam], July 23 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam recorded 1,072 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down by 70 from Friday, according to its Ministry of Health.
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Vietnam reports 1,162 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Hanoi [Vietnam], July 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam recorded 1,162 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, up by 65 from Tuesday, according to its Ministry of Health.
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New study finds out why Omicron variant is highly transmissible
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 20 (ANI): A study comparing four variants of SARS-CoV-2 shows how the Omicron variant is adept at entering cells and escaping neutralization from existing vaccines or prior infection, potentially contributing to the variant's high transmissibility.
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Blinken, Japanese counterpart to galvanize international action in combatt
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 19 (ANI): As the world continues to grapple with COVID-19's far-reaching impacts and the emergence of new variants, US State Secretary Antony Blinken will co-host the COVID-19 Global Action Plan (GAP) Foreign Ministerial Meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yo
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Thailand sees rise in severe COVID-19 cases
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], July 18 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of severe COVID-19 cases and coronavirus-related deaths in Thailand has increased slightly, fuelled by the Omicron sub-variants and the country's long holidays.
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Canada to resume random COVID-19 testing at four major airports
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], July 18 (ANI): To track the importation of the COVID-19 virus into Canada and identify new variants of concern, the country is set to re-establish its mandatory random COVID-19 testing at four major airports from Tuesday.
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Emergence of new COVID variants a risk to global economic outlook: Moody's
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): Though the overall virus-related concerns have eased with COVID infections becoming less deadly, a spike in new infections across G-20 economies is, however, a reminder that the emergence of newer and more dangerous variants remains a risk to the global econ
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New GDDR6 DRAM for GPUs introduced by Samsung
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Seol [South Korea], July 14 (ANI): South Korean tech conglomerate Samsung Electronics has revealed that it has started sampling the industry's first 16-gigabit Graphics Double Data Rate 6 DRAM with 24 Gbps processing speeds.
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Death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 200,000 in Britain
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 14 (ANI/Xinhua): More than 200,000 COVID-19 deaths have been recorded across Britain, showed the latest data released Wednesday from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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COVID pandemic is nowhere near over: WHO chief
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 12 (ANI): World Health Organization (WHO) chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday warned the world that fresh waves of COVID-19 cases show that the pandemic is "nowhere near over."
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