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Canada police threaten crackdown as protests spread to other countries
Feb 10, 2022 09:14Canadian police have threatened to start arresting truckers and other demonstrators who have shut down central Ottawa and disrupted cross-border trade for two weeks in protest against the government's COVID-19 measures, as similar protests have spread to other countries to demand an end to pandemic restrictions.
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Iran: Over 39,000 new COVID cases detected
Feb 09, 2022 09:16The number of people tested positive for the coronavirus in Iran in the past 24 hours has exceeded 39,000 cases.
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Iran: COVID death toll exceeds 133,000
Feb 08, 2022 09:07The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran has surpassed 133,000, the Health Ministry said.
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Ayatollah Khamenei gets third dose of COVID vaccine
Feb 07, 2022 10:42Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has received the third dose of vaccine for the coronavirus, an Iranian physician said.
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COVID daily death toll in Iran surges to 3-digit number after weeks
Feb 07, 2022 10:37The daily death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran exceeded 100 on Monday for the first time after 69 days.
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Health regulator okays Chinese Sinopharm vaccine for use in South Africa
Feb 07, 2022 10:29A South African health regulator has approved China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for adults aged 18 and above even though a senior health official said the government would not immediately procure its doses.
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Iran: COVID hospitalization cases are above 2,000
Feb 06, 2022 09:48The number of coronavirus patients admitted to the hospital across Iran over the past 24 hours has surpassed 2,100, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
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Provincial officials authorized to decide about COVID lockdowns in Iran
Feb 05, 2022 12:03Iran's President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi put provincial officials in charge of making decisions about coronavirus-related restrictions or lockdowns as the omicron variant of the virus has triggered the sixth wave of the pandemic in the country.
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13th British parliamentarian calls on Boris Johnson to step down as prime minister
Feb 05, 2022 10:26British member of parliament Aaron Bell has become the 13th Conservative parliamentarian to submit a no-confidence letter to 1922 Committee Chair Sir Graham Brady, publicly calling for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation over government violations of its own lockdown rules.
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Five top aides to UK's Johnson step down amid 'partygate' scandal
Feb 05, 2022 10:17Five top aides to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have resigned from 10 Downing Street within hours of each other, dealing a fresh blow to his embattled government amid ‘partygate’ scandal.