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Hungary approves Chinese Sinopharm's COVID vaccine, first in EU to do so
Jan 29, 2021 12:57Hungary, which last week became the first European Union member to buy Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, on Friday became the bloc’s first to approve China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine.
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COVID-19 updates: Mexico's virus toll world's third; Europe's crisis accelerating
Jan 29, 2021 10:01Mexico overtakes India with the third-highest number of coronavirus fatalities, after the US and Brazil. In Europe, countries consider imposing new restrictions as a new variant of COVID-19 that initially emerged in Britain, continues to rise across the continent.
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UN labor agency: Pandemic job losses four times higher than after 2009 financial collapse
Jan 29, 2021 05:54Surveying the widespread and devastating wreckage the coronavirus pandemic has inflicted on the world economy over the past nine months, the United Nations' labor agency estimated recently that the Covid-19 crisis caused a loss of 8.8% of global working hours in 2020—the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs.
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Iran gives permission for COVID-19 vaccine import from Russia
Jan 29, 2021 05:40The Food and Drug Administration of Iran has granted emergency use authorization to Sputnik V, a coronavirus vaccine made by Russia’s Gamaleya Center, an official said.
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Zionist entity using coronavirus outbreak to further abuse Palestinian inmates: Health minister
Jan 28, 2021 16:01Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila has said that the Zionist regime authorities refuse to provide adequate health care services to Palestinian prisoners, stressing that the regime is using the coronavirus pandemic to suppress the inmates.
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COVID-19 cases in Iran close to 1.4 mln
Jan 28, 2021 12:50The total number of people infected with the coronavirus in Iran is about to hit 1,400,000, the Health Ministry said.
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Oil falls on COVID-19-induced demand worries, stronger dollar
Jan 28, 2021 09:30Oil fell on Thursday on fresh fuel demand worries because of travel curbs to prevent new coronavirus outbreaks and delays with vaccines and a stronger US dollar weighed on prices.
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As economic suffering grips regular Americans, Wall Street behemoths ready feast of stock buybacks
Jan 28, 2021 06:57For millions of regular Americans, the end of 2020 was marked by economic distress, with millions suffering pandemic-triggered job losses—and thus the loss of their employer-tied health insurance—still waiting on robust economic relief from federal lawmakers, and facing a weak social safety net.
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Ex-Iran, Persepolis player Minavand dies of COVID-19
Jan 28, 2021 03:47Ex-midfielder of Iran National Football Team (Team Melli) and Persepolis Mehrdad Minavand died due to COVID-19 Wednesday night.
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Fast-spreading COVID variant can elude immune responses
Jan 28, 2021 02:43Evidence is growing that some coronavirus variants could evade immune responses triggered by vaccines and previous infections. Researchers are trying to make sense of a tsunami of lab studies released this week that raise concerns about some emerging variants and mutations.