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US loses over 18,400 lives to COVID in deadliest week amid slow vaccine rollout
Jan 05, 2021 10:37More than 18,400 Americans died from COVID-19 in the week ended Jan. 3, bringing the pandemic's total to over 351,000 deaths in the US.
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China calls on US to stop spreading ‘fake info’ about Beijing
Jan 05, 2021 08:47China has dismissed US accusations of undermining international rule of law, calling on Washington to stop manufacturing fake information about Beijing and return to rationality and reason.
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Iran starts second phase of injecting homegrown Coviran vaccine to volunteers
Jan 04, 2021 12:14Iran has started the second phase of the injection of its domestically-developed coronavirus vaccine to volunteers, further consolidating its steps towards a better containment of the flu-like pathogen.
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Some 6,000 new COVID-19 cases detected in Iran
Jan 04, 2021 08:54The total number of people infected with the coronavirus in Iran is about to hit 1.25 million after the detection of over 6,000 new patients in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Monday.
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US, European allies refuse to unfreeze Venezuela funds for vaccine purchase
Jan 04, 2021 05:54The United States, Britain and some European Union states have rejected Venezuela’s appeal to unfreeze its sanctioned assets in order to purchase the much-needed coronavirus vaccine, the nation’s President Nicolas Maduro has unveiled.
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Iran’s COVID vaccine fully home-grown, no Chinese, Cuban role involved: SETAD
Jan 04, 2021 02:51Iran’s SETAD, an economic conglomerate that owns major pharmaceutical companies, has denied reports that it has used Chinese or Cuban expertise to develop an indigenous vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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Coronavirus in Iran: Hospital admissions below 500
Jan 03, 2021 11:46Iran’s Health Ministry said 497 coronavirus patients have been admitted to hospitals across the country over the past 24 hours.
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India approves two COVID-19 vaccines, rollout in weeks
Jan 03, 2021 08:40India's drugs regulator on Sunday (Jan 3) gave final approval for the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other by local company Bharat Biotech.
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115,000 more Americans will die of COVID-19 in January: Model predicts
Jan 03, 2021 08:24COVID-19 will kill 115,000 more Americans in January alone as 348,000 have already died since the start of the pandemic across the US, according to a leading model.
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Latin America’s pandemic of mounting troubles
Jan 03, 2021 07:04Many regions performed badly when confronted with COVID-19, but Latin America fared worse than most, in terms of both lives and livelihoods lost. As of November 2020, nine of the 20 countries with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths per capita were in Latin America.