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China fired two health officials after a new virus broke out

BEIJING (AP) – The president and director of a health commission in the northern Chinese city of Qingdao have been fired after a recent outbreak of a coronavirus in China, officials said Thursday. A brief notice on the official microblog of the Qingdao city government on Thursday states that Sui …

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China will test 9 million after the latest outburst

BEIJING (AP) – Chinese health authorities will test all 9 million people in the eastern city of Qingdao for coronavirus this week, the government announced Monday after finding nine cases linked to a hospital. The announcement breaks a two-month streak of reports of virus transmission in China, although China has …

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The COVID-19 milestone has reached 150,000 people in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The death toll from Saturday night’s Covid-1 death toll in Brazil exceeded 100,000,000, despite signs that the epidemic is slowly receding in Latin America’s largest country. Brazil’s health ministry reports that the death toll is now 1,0,188. The figure ranks second in the world behind …

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