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Protests over zero Covid policy spread across China
Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China’s severe COVID-19 restrictions continued into the third day and spread to several other cities, Al Jazeera...
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30,000 people have died each day WTO dragged its feet on vaccine patents: Oxfam
JULIA CONLEY
As public health advocates prepared a global day of action to demand an end to Covid-19 vaccine inequity,...
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India’s COVID-19 toll highest in the world, 10 times official figure
A new estimate by World Health Organisation says India accounts for almost a third of Covid deaths globally...
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Rich nations, big pharma still blocking ‘early exit’ from pandemic: Experts
In a scathing letter on Wednesday, more than 300 public health experts, academics, labour leaders, and activists accused rich...
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Study shows COVID-19 infection linked to brain shrinkage, cognitive decline
A new study published in the journal Nature on Monday shows an association between brain size and structure among those infected...
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Rahul Gandhi slam UGC decision to conduct final year exams
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday, uploaded a video in social media, bashing the UGC for conducting exams amid COVID-19 outbreak. In the video, he demanded the body to...
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Citing Soaring Covid-19 Rate, EU Bar US Travelers
The U.S. is not included on the final list of countries from where travellers can fly into the European Union's 27 member nations when the bloc reopens its borders Wednesday.
The...
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Last patient leaves hospital. New Zealand says it’s free of COVID-19
New Zealand has confirmed it is clear of novel COVID-19 with no new cases of the virus reported and no active cases.
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Hydroxychloroquine is ‘useless’ against COVID-19: Oxford study
A study of thousands of patients led by the University of Oxford has said that the hydroxychloroquine drug does not work against the novel coronavirus disease and should not be given to any more hospital patients around the world.
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International community rallies to support open research and science to fight COVID-19
Thirty countries and multiple international partners and institutions have signed up to support the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) an initiative aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatments and other health technologies to fight COVID-19 accessible to all.
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COVID-19 death toll: India overtakes China
India's COVID-19 death toll has passed China's after the country recorded 175 new fatalities and 7,466 new cases.
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COVID-19 cases in India cross 1.45 lakh
India on Tuesday reported a spike of 6,535 new COVID-19 cases and 146 deaths in the last 24 hours. The total number of cases in the country now at 1,45,380 including 80,722 active cases, 60,490 cured/discharged, and 4167 deaths.
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Lockdown is a mass casualty incident: 600 US physicians
More than 600 physicians in the United States sent a letter to President Donald Trump calling the coronavirus pandemic controlled lockdowns a “mass casualty incident” with “exponentially growing negative health consequences” to millions of non-COVID-19 patients.
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Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine trial has 50-percent chance of success: Report
The University of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine trial has only a 50-percent chance of success as coronavirus cases ebb in the UK, the professor co-leading the development of the vaccine told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
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China reports no new COVID-19 cases for first time
China did not register any new confirmed COVID-19 cases for the first time since the pandemic began and detected only two suspicious cases, the countrys National Health Commission reported on Saturday.
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Over 1.25 lakh infected with COVID-19; recovery rate at 41.4%: India
More than 1.25 lakh people have been infected from coronavirus in the country till date. On Saturday, the Ministry of Health updated the national COVID-19 tally to 125,101.
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