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PORT VILLA, Vanuatu (AFP) — Vanuatu slapped travel restrictions on its most populous island Monday after tests confirmed a body that washed ashore on the largely coronavirus-free Pacific nation was infected with Covid-19. Government sources said the deceased was a Filipino sailor whose vessel had left Port Vila a day before his body was found washed up near a village about five kilometres (3.1 miles) outside the city on Sunday 11 April. The man’s crewmates […]
LONDON, United States (AFP) — More than 10 million people have received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine across Britain, according to government figures published on Wednesday. The health ministry said 10,021,471 people have had a jab since the start of a mass vaccination campaign in early December. A further 498,962 have had a second dose. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has set a target of vaccinating 15 million of the most vulnerable by […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia confirmed its 100,000th coronavirus case on Monday as the Red Cross warned that the health crisis in the world’s fourth most populous country risked “spiralling out of control”. The vast archipelago — home to more than a quarter of a billion people — has been recording 1,000-plus new infections daily after relaxing movement restrictions this month in a bid to head off a collapse of Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. As […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Dubai on Tuesday closed its only field hospital set up at a convention centre to treat coronavirus cases after the last patient, a Japanese national, walked out in good health. Doctors and nurses, still wearing protective gear, lined up clapping for Hiroaki Fujita as he left the Dubai World Trade Centre which was converted to a 3,000-bed field hospital in April to treat virus patients. “I ask everyone to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States recorded 1,255 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 94,661, according to the latest real-time tally Thursday reported by Johns Hopkins University. The country — hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities — has now confirmed a total of 1,576,542 cases, the Baltimore-based school reported. © Agence France-Presse
