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US Oregon places counties under strictest lockdown restrictions as COVID resurges
May 03, 2021 09:31A new wave of the coronavirus has pushed a third of counties in the US State of Oregon to severely tighten lockdown restrictions.
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Largest consignment of COVID vaccine delivered to Iran
May 03, 2021 01:38The Iranian Red Crescent Society on Sunday took delivery of the largest shipment of the coronavirus vaccine that the country has imported since the outbreak of the pandemic in February 2020.
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Many US deaths during pandemic were simply due to lack of access to health care
May 02, 2021 12:20For decades, the US government has ignored the warnings from public health experts that the U.S. was not properly prepared for the pandemic Americans are living through now.
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Grief and anger as COVID victims overwhelm Delhi’s crematoriums
May 02, 2021 12:12The bodies came, one after another, after another, after another. So many bodies that the ambulances and trucks carrying them into the crematorium blocked traffic. In New Delhi, a city where someone dies from COVID-19 every four minutes, every day is a battle not just for hospital beds but for a space to say goodbye to the dead with dignity.
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US persists with ‘vaccine nationalism’ as coronavirus wreaks havoc in India
May 02, 2021 10:22The United States and other Western nations have hoarded tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses they may never use and the raw materials needed to make them as India becomes the epicenter of the disease.
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Coronavirus in Iran: Over 2,700 patients hospitalized
May 02, 2021 09:30The number of coronavirus patients who have been admitted to the hospital across Iran over the past 24 hours was over 2,700, the Health Ministry’s spokeswoman said.
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Iran to use funds held in Iraq to buy Russian COVID-19 vaccine, says minister
May 02, 2021 07:05Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian says Iran will use its funds blocked in neighboring Iraq to purchase vaccines from Russia against the COVID-19 disease.
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Eurozone driven into double-dip recession as COVID takes toll
May 02, 2021 04:46The Eurozone fell back into recession in the first three months of the year, as a slow vaccination drive and tougher restrictions to stem a third coronavirus wave damaged the region’s economies.
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President Rouhani: Efforts underway to buy vaccine despite lingering obstacles
May 02, 2021 00:53President Hassan Rouhani said his administration has been supplying foreign currency to purchase and import the coronavirus vaccine although the sanctions have impeded financial transactions.
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COVID deaths in Iran surpass 72,000
May 02, 2021 00:47The number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran exceeded 72,000 on Saturday.