Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain has escaped without additional penalties in a long-simmering scandal that threatened his grip on power, as the Metropolitan Police announced Thursday (19) that they had concluded an investigation into…
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Over the past two decades, a government program has provided basic health care at the doorsteps of homes across India’s vast territory. Essential to the project is an army of more than one million female health workers, who trek through…
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North Korea said the number of suspected coronavirus infections in the vulnerable, isolated country was nearing 1.5 million on Tuesday (17) and had resulted in 56 deaths since April
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If the United States had the same COVID death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved
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The coronavirus has been spreading across North Korea “explosively” since late last month, killing six people and leaving 187,800 people in quarantine, the country’s state media reported on Friday (13).
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Since April, the 25 million residents of Shanghai have gotten a small taste of the Xinjiang treatment in a strict citywide lockdown. They have been lining up for rounds of COVID-19 tests to prove they are virus-free, a pandemic corollary to…
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JOHANNESBURG - Coronavirus cases are surging again in South Africa, and public health experts are monitoring the situation, eager to know what is driving the spike, what it says about immunity from previous infections and what its…
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LONDON - Stock markets and oil prices slumped Monday (25) on growing concern that lockdowns in China aimed at fighting a worsening Covid outbreak could further harm a world economy battling decades-high inflation
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COLOMBO -The Sri Lankan Health Ministry on Thursday (21) reversed a decision made earlier to relax the face mask mandate in the South Asian country
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BEIJING - All it took was one confirmed COVID case among the 2.4 million residents of Wuhu, a city in the farmland of eastern China, for the government there to lock down residents without warning
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