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Iran closes land borders with Pakistan amid COVID surge
Apr 28, 2021 01:05Iran is closing its land borders with Pakistan to passenger travel amid growing fears that a highly infectious variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19) found in India could hit the country hard amid a renewed surge in infection cases.
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India besieged with staggering COVID storm
Apr 27, 2021 01:37For the 5th consecutive day India has recorded an overwhelming number of COVID-19 infections. The country logged around 350,000 fresh cases and about 2,700 deaths, raising fears of further devastation and dismay among its citizens.
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India shaken by new coronavirus 'storm': PM Modi
Apr 25, 2021 04:13India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged all citizens to take COVID-19 vaccines and exercise caution, saying a "storm" of infections had shaken the country.
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Iran voices solidarity with India as its COVID cases spiral
Apr 25, 2021 01:58Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his solidarity with India which has reported record numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths amid an alarming shortage of medical oxygen and hospital beds following a brutal wave of COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rouhani warns Iran could see worst of COVID if Indian variant hits
Apr 25, 2021 01:38President Hassan Rouhani has called for increased restrictions on travel and movement as he warns the country could be hit by the worst of the coronavirus crisis with the arrival of the Indian variant of the virus.
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Concerns over new COVID variant halts travels, trade between Iran, India
Apr 25, 2021 01:14Iran has banned all direct and indirect travels to and from India and has suspended trade exchanges with the subcontinent country over concerns about a new ‘double mutant’ strain of the coronavirus.
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India’s healthcare system pushed to brink as COVID crisis deepens
Apr 23, 2021 13:14The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the country’s healthcare to the brink of collapse as hospitals struggle with lack of resources and space. The country is battling with a lack of oxygen supplies and space to cremate the dead.
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Fire in COVID-19 hospital kills 13 as India struggles with huge second wave
Apr 23, 2021 06:00A fire in the intensive care unit of a multi-story coronavirus hospital in the coastal Indian city of Virar, 70 kilometers (43 miles) north of Mumbai, has claimed the lives of over a dozen patients.
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India records world's biggest single-day rise in coronavirus cases
Apr 22, 2021 07:00India marked a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday, reporting 314,835 new daily cases, the highest one-day tally anywhere, as its second wave and similar surges elsewhere raised new fears about the ability of health services to cope.
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AFC Champions League : Persepolis FC 2-1 Goa
Apr 21, 2021 00:54Iran’s Persepolis have bounced back from a goal down to complete their perfect run in Group E of the 2021 AFC Champions League after edging India’s FC Goa 2-1.