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Portugal starts vaccinating children amid Omicron variant
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Lisbon [Portugal], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Portugal started vaccinating children ages 5-11 against COVID-19 on Saturday, said the country's Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
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Israel bans travel to 10 more countries over concern of Omicron variant
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Israel's Ministry of Health on Sunday said it decided to ban travel to ten more countries to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.
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Six bodies retrieved from collapsed building in central Kenya
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Nairobi [Kenya], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Six bodies were on Sunday retrieved from a building in the central Kenyan county of Murang'a that collapsed while under construction.
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Iran begins technical, security inspection of cameras to be installed in K
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) on Sunday began technical and security inspection of cameras which are to be installed at Iran's Karaj centrifuge producing plant by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Behrouz Kamalvandi, the s
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Suez Canal revenue hits record high 6 bln USD in 2021
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The revenue of Egypt's Suez Canal reached 6 billion US dollars in 2021, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie said in a statement on Sunday.
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Vietnam reports 16,110 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Hanoi [Vietnam], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam reported 16,110 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 16,093 locally transmitted and 17 imported, according to its Ministry of Health.
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Gas explosion injures 10 in Uzbekistan
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Tashkent [Uzbekistan], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): A gas explosion in a canteen in Uzbekistan's Samarkand region has injured ten people, the country's emergency ministry said Sunday.
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Death toll in Philippines from Typhoon Rai rises to 144: Reports
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The death toll from Typhoon Rai that battered the Philippines this week has climbed to at least 144, local officials said on Sunday.
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Iran reports first case of COVID-19 Omicron variant
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Iran identified the first case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, Mohammad Mehdi Gooya, the head of management center of infectious diseases of Iran's Health Ministry, announced on Sunday.
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Africa's COVID-19 cases surpass 9.14 million
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 9,143,184 cases as of late Saturday evening, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
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UN chief says showing solidarity with migrants more important than ever
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday that showing solidarity with migrants is more important than ever in his message on International Migrants Day, celebrated each year on Dec. 18.
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New Zealand detects 5 more cases of Omicron at border
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Wellington [New Zealand ], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): New Zealand detected five more Omicron cases in international arrivals, taking the country's total cases of the COVID-19 variant to 13, said the Ministry of Health in a statement on Sunday.
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