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COVID-19: Japan demands pre-departure testing for Olympic, Paralympic team
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 25 (ANI): Japan's government will ask Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics athletes and staff from overseas to be tested for the novel coronavirus twice within 96 hours of departure from their respective countries, multiple games sources said on Sunday.
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After surge in Covid cases, Japan declares emergency in four prefectures
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 23 (ANI): Following a rise in COVID cases, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a cabinet meeting Friday that four prefectures in Japan will go into a state of emergency starting Sunday.
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Cancelling Tokyo Olympics 'an option' says Japan's ruling party official
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 15 (ANI): Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai said on Thursday that cancelling this summer's Tokyo Olympics may be an option if the spread of coronavirus infections forces organisers to think it would be difficult to hold the even
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EU regulator says AstraZeneca vaccine benefits outweigh risks despite 'pos
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], April 8 (ANI): The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Wednesday acknowledged a "possible link" between the AstraZeneca vaccine and "very rare cases of blood clots" but said the benefits of the vaccine, however, continue to outweigh the risks.
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Moderna starts testing COVID-19 vaccine on young children, infants
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], March 17 (ANI): Moderna has begun testing its COVID-19 vaccine on children and infants between the ages of six months and 12 years old in a study, as the pharmaceutical company seeks to expand approval for its vaccine to children, the company said on Tuesday.
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WHO disappointed China hasn't granted entry to coronavirus experts
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 6 (ANI): The World Health Organization expressed dissappointment over China not finalising the permissions for the arrival of the team that was to investigate the origin of the coronavirus, said world health body chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday (loc
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UK Royal Mail deliveries affected by travel bans resulting from new virus
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], December 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The British Royal Mail says it is halting deliveries to most of Europe and is suspending special delivery guarantees for some items as countries across the world are closing their borders to the UK because of the new strain of the coronavirus.
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World COVID-19 caseload nears 75- million mark
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Baltimore (Maryland) [US], December 18 (ANI): The world COVID-19 caseload is nearing 75 million cases, as per the latest updates by Johns Hopkins University.
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Imran Khan govt did not take provinces into confidence on COVID vaccine, s
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho on Friday slammed the Imran Khan-led federal government for not taking provinces into confidence about the coronavirus vaccination timeline.
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Canada's daily COVID-19 cases continue to rise
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], October 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Canada's daily case counts continue to rise with an average of over 2,300 new cases being reported daily during the most recent seven days, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada on Friday.
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Trump slams 'China-dominated' WHO, says 'was right' on not imposing Covid-
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Florida [US], October 13 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) said that the recent remarks by a World Health Organization envoy proved that he "was right" about not imposing Covid-19 lockdowns and said that the global health body, which was dominated by China was "wrong ab
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Over 25 pc people developed COVID-19 antibodies as per Serosurvey report i
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 1 (ANI): Over 25 per cent of the people have developed antibodies to COVID-19 in Delhi according to a serosurvey report, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Thursday.
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