Tokyo: The Japanese government on Monday officially announced its decision to extend the nationwide state of emergency imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, by nearly a month until May 31. Prime …
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Canberra: Australians affected by COVID-19 travel restrictions have been encouraged to take legal action against airlines which exchanged tickets on disrupted flights for vouchers. On Monday, law firm Slater and …
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Washington: The number of global coronavirus cases have surpassed the 3.5 million mark, according to the Washington-based Johns Hopkins University. As of Monday morning, the overall number of cases worldwide …
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Washington: US President Donald Trump expressed confidence that the country would have a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year and revised the number of deaths due to the …
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Washington: The US government has “enormous evidence” that the novel coronavirus originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic erupted last December, Secretary of State Mike …
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Brasilia: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro exacerbated tensions with top institutions in the country by participating in another protest amid a political crisis that began after a former Minister alleged that the …
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Wuhan: There has been no new confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in China’s Hubei province and its capital Wuhan, where the deadly disease originated last December, for the 30th consecutive …
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New York: Global confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 3.5 million, reaching 3,502,126 as of 7 p.m. (2300 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. …
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Los Angele: A northern California city official was ousted after he claimed on social media that sick, old and homeless people should be left to meet their “natural course in nature” …
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Rome: On the eve of the easing of the eight-week national lockdown, Italy’s daily new deaths from COVID-19 dropped to 174, the lowest level since the start of the lockdown on …
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