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North Korea reports 15 deaths and nearly 300,000 new ‘fever’ cases
May 15, 2022 04:04North Korea says a total of 42 people have died as the country began its fourth day under a nationwide lockdown.
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Iranian president urges readiness for new strains of COVID
May 15, 2022 01:39Iran's President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi called on the health society to maintain preparedness to deal with new possible variants of the coronavirus in the country.
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Kim: COVID-19 throwing country into 'great turmoil' amid rising death toll
May 14, 2022 04:56North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says the spread of the coronavirus has plunged the country into "great turmoil," calling for an all-out battle to overcome the epidemiological crisis.
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Around 400 new COVID cases detected in Iran
May 13, 2022 06:27The number of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus in Iran in the past 24 hours stood at around 400.
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N.Korea reports first COVID-19 death after 350,000 sickened with fever
May 13, 2022 04:05At least one person confirmed to have COVID-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of country’s first confirmed outbreak since the pandemic began.
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Biden marks 1 million Americans dead from COVID
May 12, 2022 11:10US President Joe Biden on Thursday commemorated the death of 1 million people in the United States from COVID-19, marking what he called "a tragic milestone" and urging Americans to "remain vigilant" amid the ongoing pandemic.
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North Korea reports first COVID-19 outbreak, orders lockdown in 'gravest emergency'
May 12, 2022 08:53North Korea confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday, calling it the "gravest national emergency" and ordering a national lockdown, with state media reporting an Omicron variant had been detected in Pyongyang.
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Around 60 new COVID cases hospitalized in Iran
May 11, 2022 07:12The number of coronavirus patients admitted to the hospital across Iran over the past 24 hours dropped to 62, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
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WHO: China’s zero-COVID strategy unsustainable
May 11, 2022 06:09China’s flagship zero-COVID strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that it had told Beijing so and called for a policy shift.
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US gun deaths soared in 2020 amid pandemic: CDC
May 11, 2022 03:41The number of gun deaths in the United States underwent a "historic" increase in 2020, possibly due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and poverty, according to a report by health authorities published Tuesday.