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Kim slams North Korea's COVID response, orders army to 'stabilize' drugs supply
May 16, 2022 13:16North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un has blasted the country’s crisis management in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, ordering the deployment of the army to help distribute medicine, state media said on Monday.
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Number of COVID patients hospitalized in Iran down to 55
May 15, 2022 11:32The number of coronavirus patients admitted to the hospital across Iran over the past 24 hours dropped to 55, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
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North Korea reports 15 deaths and nearly 300,000 new ‘fever’ cases
May 15, 2022 08:34North 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 06:09Iran'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 09:26North 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 10:57The 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 08:35At 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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100 million new COVID infections could be just months away
May 12, 2022 17:57Mask mandates are being lifted in many countries. Testing and surveillance have decreased and travelling is recommencing widely. People are understandably exhausted and want to forget about the pandemic. This would be a grave mistake.
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Biden marks 1 million Americans dead from COVID
May 12, 2022 15:40US 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 13:23North 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.