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Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet
Jul 16, 2021 15:21When healthy items are unaffordable, people are vulnerable to malnutrition and diet-related diseases.
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'A truly shameful day': UK government condemned for slashing global aid during pandemic
Jul 16, 2021 09:27Global aid groups rebuked the Tory-led UK government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson for approving a plan to slash overseas aid spending by £4 billion ($5.5 billion) per year, with critics saying the cuts would result in disastrous consequences for the world's poorest people, including millions of children, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
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COVID outbreak among vaccinated Vegas hospital workers underscores Delta risks
Jul 15, 2021 03:45Coronavirus cases are rising in several Americans states, like Nevada, where vaccinations lag and the Delta variant is spreading. It now accounts for half of U.S. cases.
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'It didn't have to be this way': WHO chief laments 4 million COVID-19 deaths
Jul 11, 2021 04:44The official global death toll from COVID-19 hit 4 million on Wednesday, July 7th —a "tragic milestone," said the World Health Organization chief as he blasted "vaccine nationalism" as a "morally indefensible" position.
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As Delta runs rampant, analysis pinpoints five undervaccinated clusters putting entire US at risk
Jul 11, 2021 04:36A new data analysis by researchers at Georgetown University pinpoints a number of undervaccinated clusters of the United States that pose a significant threat to the nation's—and potentially the world's—gradual progress against the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly given their potential to serve as "factories" for extremely contagious variants such as the now-dominant Delta strain.
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Iran's Leader walks the talk on battle against COVID-19
Jul 10, 2021 03:38At the peak of first and second waves last year, when Iran was one of the hardest-hit countries in the region, it was the Leader of Islamic Revolution who stood like a rock behind the country's frontline health workers. He even declared those who fell in the line of duty as "martyrs".
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Olympics: Unanswered questions about serious COVID-19 risks
Jul 10, 2021 03:33With the Olympics weeks away, time is running out, but there are still important precautions that could be implemented to avoid a worst-case COVID-19 “superspreader” scenario.
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COVID-19 pandemic may be winding down but Americans are still sick and dying
Jul 10, 2021 03:24It’s no accident that the United States experienced more COVID-19 deaths in 2020 than any other country and one of the world’s highest per capita death rates.
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In echo of Trump, Boris Johnson says UK must “learn to live with” rising COVID
Jul 09, 2021 14:47It was deeply disquieting to learn that Great Britain, under the leadership of Trump clone Boris Johnson, is preparing to lift virtually all COVID safety strictures and leave the British people wide open to the caprices of the virus.
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COVID death risk ‘almost four times higher’ for poorest in England
Jul 09, 2021 14:45People under 65 living in the most deprived areas of the UK were more than 3.7 times more likely to die with COVID than people in the richest areas.