India holds vaccine drills ahead of mass innoculation drive
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- India on Saturday staged nationwide drills to start one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination…
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Tokyo tops 1,300 daily virus cases; warns of possible new emergency
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Tokyo reported over 1,300 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, a daily record, as officials warned…
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China’s first vaccine hustled to market as race to inoculate 1.3bn speeds up
BEIJING, China (AFP) -- China has granted "conditional" market approval to a Sinopharm vaccine with a reported 79 percent…
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Yemen airport blasts kill 26 as government plane arrives
by Mohamed Abdelhakim with Fawaz Al Haidari in Abu Dhabi Agence France Presse Aden, Yemen (AFP) -- At least…
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Wuhan virus cases may be 10 times higher than reported: China health study
by Patrick BAERT Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) -- The number of coronavirus cases in the Chinese city…
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Singapore begins coronavirus vaccination campaign
SINGAPORE (AFP) -- Singapore began a coronavirus vaccination campaign Wednesday with a nurse receiving the first jab, making it…
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China’s Sinopharm says vaccine ‘79% effective’ against Covid-19
BEIJING, China (AFP) -- Phase 3 trials of a Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine found it was 79 percent effective, the…
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Search ongoing in Arctic Russia for 17 fishermen
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Russian rescuers on Tuesday were continuing to search for 17 missing fishermen after their trawler capsized…
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US begins coronavirus vaccinations for troops in South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- The United States began a coronavirus vaccination campaign for its troops stationed in South Korea…
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Jordan to get 1 million Pfizer vaccine doses: health minister
AMMAN, Jordan (AFP) -- Jordan has ordered one million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech novel coronavirus vaccine, with the first shipment…
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