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Japan’s Okinawa considers COVID emergency amid virus spread from US base
Jan 05, 2022 10:16Japan is considering declaring a state of emergency in the southern island of Okinawa, after the region emerged as the epicenter of a new coronavirus surge, with officials saying the virus keeps spreading from US bases.
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US snowstorm strands drivers for 24 hours or more
Jan 05, 2022 08:51The snow storm is over but the travel misery lingered: drivers on a major highway outside Washington reported Tuesday they were stuck in their cars in freezing weather for 24 hours or more.
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Backlash after Macron says his COVID strategy aims to ‘annoy’ the unvaccinated
Jan 05, 2022 04:44French President Emmanuel Macron has generated major furor after insisting his government’s COVID vaccination strategy was aimed at “annoying” the unvaccinated and ardently making life harder for them.
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US sets grim COVID record with 1 million daily cases
Jan 05, 2022 04:26The United States has set a grim coronavirus record, with more than 1 million cases diagnosed in a day as the highly transmissible Omicron variant is wreaking havoc across the country.
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Iranian university develops test kit for COVID-19 Omicron variant
Jan 05, 2022 02:57Researchers in an Iranian medical school have developed a first home-grown test kit for detecting the Omicron variant of coronavirus.
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Japan irked at US military's failure to contain spread of Omicron variant
Jan 04, 2022 13:06The top government officials in Japan’s Okinawa prefecture have blasted the US military for failing to contain the COVID-19 outbreak at its bases in the country and allowing the Omicron variant to spill over to the local population.
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Violence flares at pandemic protests in Germany
Jan 04, 2022 11:09Police in Germany have reported sporadic violence at demonstrations against the country’s pandemic restrictions, with one protester in the eastern town of Lichtenstein biting an officer and another attempting to steal a service weapon.
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Iran COVID updates: Coronavirus cases exceed 6.2 million
Jan 04, 2022 11:00The total number of people infected with the coronavirus in Iran surpassed 6,200,000 on Tuesday, while more than 6.04 million patients have recovered across the country.
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COVID-19 infections spiking in US Capitol
Jan 04, 2022 08:39Coronavirus infections in the United States Capitol have skyrocketed, with lawmakers and their staff members mostly getting affected by omicron and delta variants.
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Iran marks lowest daily COVID deaths in 667 days
Jan 03, 2022 10:09The number of patients who have died of the coronavirus infection in Iran over the past 24 hours stood at 22, the lowest death toll since March 7, 2020.