OSLO / NORWAY: Twenty-three people died in Norway Within days of receiving their first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, 13 of those deaths apparently related to the side effects of the injections, the New York Post reported, citing health officials. All 13 were nursing home patients and were at …
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BEIJING: The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the new coronavirus emerged a year ago before it became a pandemic and changed lives around the world, has started emergency Covid-19 vaccination in some key groups, said a senior health official Tuesday, even as China has yet to officially certify its multiple …
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Nationwide, the pandemic has slowed since September, but weekly increases in some states had remained massive in absolute terms. Yet this week, Kerala, Maharashtra and West Bengal, the source of most of the new infections, together totaled nearly 74,000 cases in seven days. India has added 189,186 new patients in …
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WASHINGTON: The United States set a double record on Wednesday with more than 3,700 deaths and more than 250,000 new cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. The country has seen a dramatic increase in Covid infections for more than a month, with some …
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NEW DELHI: Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi investigated at the Center on Friday the IMF’s projection that the Indian economy will contract by 10.3 percent this year, calling it another “strong achievement” by the government. Gandhi hit the government on Twitter by tagging a graph showing the IMF’s 2020-21 growth projections …
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