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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.
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As US marks 1 million COVID deaths, Biden has dropped most pandemic protections
May 11, 2022 16:50According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 has become the third leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer. Amid all of this pain, President Joe Biden has dropped most pandemic restrictions, stopped most national tracking, and failed to act on even the most basic federal actions to reign this pandemic in.
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UK local elections: How London turned from blue to red
May 11, 2022 13:19Even the wealthiest enclaves of the British capital turned against the Tories recently. What has made the city a Labour redoubt – and is its dominance more of a menace than a boon?
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Around 60 new COVID cases hospitalized in Iran
May 11, 2022 11:42The 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 10:39China’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 08:11The 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.
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Daily COVID death toll drops to 3 in Iran
May 10, 2022 13:06Iran recorded only three coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday as the pandemic appears to have been tackled after around 27 months of efforts.
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UK local election results were messy. Now Boris Johnson’s future is on the line
May 09, 2022 12:14A heartland slump and hundreds of seat losses in UK's local elections will put new pressure on the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but his opponent, Keir Starmer, may also face criticism after failing to deliver a knockout.
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Over 7 million recover from COVID-19 in Iran
May 07, 2022 12:05More than seven million coronavirus positive cases have so far recovered from the infectious disease in Iran, the Health Ministry said.
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Iran COVID-19 updates: Daily deaths rise to two-digit figure again
May 06, 2022 13:19The daily death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran increased to 12 on Friday after it dropped to a single-digit number for the first time in more than two years.