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Coronavirus daily death toll in Iran stands at 338
May 06, 2021 06:10The coronavirus pandemic claimed 338 lives in Iran over the past 24 hours.
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Brazil seeks to hold Bolsonaro accountable for more than 400,000 COVID-19 deaths
May 06, 2021 05:49Brazil’s COVID-19 crisis remains one of the worst in the world, and a brutal economic depression has forced millions into poverty.
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Unilateral coercive measures impede COVID fight, endanger people’s health: Iran envoy tells UN
May 06, 2021 05:02An Iranian representative to the United Nations has warned that sanctions against developing countries target ordinary people and pose a serious obstacle to the fight against the deadly COVID-19 disease, calling on the world body to take swift action to help end the unlawful and illegitimate restrictions.
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Narendra Modi loses key state election as COVID grips India
May 05, 2021 10:18India’s prime minister has suffered a rare political defeat in a key state election, amid signs of a voter backlash over his handling of the coronavirus disaster as the country reported a record number of deaths.
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India posts record daily COVID-19 deaths, delegates test positive at G7 meet
May 05, 2021 10:15India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, as COVID-19 deaths in the south Asian nation rose by a record 3,780 during the past 24 hours.
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New COVID cases, hospital admissions in Iran decline slightly
May 05, 2021 09:06The number of new cases tested positive for the coronavirus and those admitted to the hospital in Iran dropped on Wednesday as the vaccination program is gathering pace.
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India halts cricket league as coronavirus cases cross 20 million
May 05, 2021 03:34India halted its hugely popular cricket league on Tuesday as COVID-19 infections surged past 20 million in the world's second-most populous country and the opposition leader said a nationwide lockdown was now the only way out.
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‘We’re burning pyres all day’: India accused of undercounting deaths
May 04, 2021 12:13As India battles through one of the world’s deadliest surges of the Covid-19 pandemic, this week India’s health minister Harsh Vardhan insisted that its fatality rate from the disease remained “the lowest in the world”.
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US hoarding millions of surplus vaccine doses as COVID-19 engulfs India
May 04, 2021 09:39The United States could have as many as “three hundred million surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses” by the end of July even as India and other countries are struggling to curb the spread of the virus, reports say.
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Iran COVID-19 update: 20k infections, 344 deaths
May 04, 2021 07:57According to the Health Ministry, 20,150 new COVID-19 infections have been detected across the country in the past 24 hours.