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Virus variant in Brazil infected many who had already recovered from COVID-19
Mar 03, 2021 11:58In just a matter of weeks, two variants of the coronavirus have become so familiar that you can hear their inscrutable alphanumeric names regularly uttered on television news.
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Iran conducts over 11 million coronavirus tests
Mar 03, 2021 10:36The number of coronavirus diagnostic tests carried out in Iran since the outbreak of the pandemic has exceeded 11 million, the Health Ministry’s spokeswoman said.
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Coronavirus in Iran: Around 780 new cases admitted to hospital
Mar 02, 2021 08:53The number of coronavirus patients who have been admitted to the hospital across Iran over the past 24 hours was 784, the Health Ministry’s spokeswoman said.
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The real deadly global pandemic: acute food shortages
Mar 02, 2021 06:12A June 2020 report by the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at Northwestern University, which relied on data provided by the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey state in the United States, “food insecurity has doubled overall, and tripled among households with children” because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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41% of Americans not willing to get vaccinated for Covid, poll shows
Mar 02, 2021 04:17A new poll shows that over 40 percent of Americans are not willing to get vaccinated for the coronavirus vaccine.
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Answer to climate crisis is not more US militarism
Mar 01, 2021 12:40Last year, the Pentagon diverted $1 billion in COVID-19 relief money that was supposed to fund protective equipment to weapons manufacturers for jet parts. Moreover, the U.S. military itself is a massive greenhouse gas polluter. The U.S. has over 800 overseas military bases, many of which are increasingly at risk from climate change.
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US COVID-19 deaths surpass 513,000, cases top 28.6 mln
Mar 01, 2021 10:48The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 28.6 million with over 513,000 deaths on Sunday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
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Amazon is plagued by systemic issues that disproportionately harm Black employees
Mar 01, 2021 05:36Amazon’s corporate workplace has deep, systemic issues that disadvantage African American employees and workers from other underrepresented backgrounds, according to Recode.
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Gordon Brown: 'Government complacency is betraying a generation of unemployed'
Mar 01, 2021 05:30Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has accused the government of being complacent about the issue of unemployment in the country.
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Iran bars travelers from 32 countries to contain pandemic
Mar 01, 2021 03:52Iran has imposed travel bans on passengers from 32 high-risk countries to tackle the spread of coronavirus and its new strains, an official said.