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President Rouhani urges tightened vigilance on mutated COVID strain
Dec 27, 2020 03:52President Hassan Rouhani ordered the authorities to step up their vigilance to keep the county away from a new strain of the coronavirus that has been reported in the UK.
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Coronavirus in Iran: Some 700 new cases admitted to hospital
Dec 27, 2020 03:40The number of coronavirus patients who have been admitted to the hospital across Iran over the past 24 hours dropped to 732, the Health Ministry’s spokeswoman said.
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First VP vows equal access to coronavirus vaccine in Iran
Dec 27, 2020 03:31No Iranian government official or their family members will be permitted to get the coronavirus vaccine in violation of the regulations to be set by the Health Ministry, the first vice president said.
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Adviser has no doubt about effectiveness of Iranian vaccine for COVID-19
Dec 27, 2020 03:22An adviser to the health minister of Iran denounced the promotion of the coronavirus vaccines produced by foreign companies Pfizer and Moderna as a method to fool people, saying he has no doubts about the effectiveness of a homegrown vaccine.
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The main public hospital in the US largest county is out of ICU beds
Dec 25, 2020 19:16In California, only 3% of ICU beds are available. In the 11-county Southern California region, no ICU beds were open, and in the San Joaquin Valley, just 0.7% were. The county of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, was perilously close to zero capacity. County health officials reported that the number of daily new COVID cases, deaths and hospitalizations had all soared beyond their previous highs for the entire pandemic.
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'Pathetic': US Congress passes COVID relief bill with billions in gifts for the wealthy, $600 checks for the working class
Dec 25, 2020 06:01In late-night votes just hours after nearly 5,600 pages of legislative text were released, the U.S. Congress on Monday December 21st approved trillions of dollars worth of government funding and coronavirus relief that will temporarily avert a catastrophic expiration of key benefits, send $600 direct payments to many Americans, and provide billions of dollars in handouts to the rich.
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Oil’s vaccine trade faces hurdles ahead
Dec 24, 2020 17:09The world’s major oil forecasters – the International Energy Agency, the US Energy Information Administration and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries – slowly began to factor the coronavirus into their outlooks, initially seeing its impact limited to China. But by April it was apparent that the disease was spreading rapidly elsewhere. Forecasts for 2020 oil demand were slashed and they haven’t recovered much in subsequent months as the statistic charts shows.
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California desperately searches for more nurses and doctors
Dec 24, 2020 17:05Much of California has exhausted its usual ability to staff intensive care beds for treating coronavirus patients, and US’s most populated state is desperately searching for 3,000 temporary medical workers to meet demand. State officials are reaching out to foreign partners in places like Australia and Taiwan amid a shortage of temporary medical workers in the US, particularly nurses trained in critical care.
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Critics blast $600 stimulus checks that won’t cover 1 month’s rent for most Americans
Dec 24, 2020 16:52US Congressional leaders announced on Sunday, December 20 that a deal between Democrats and Republicans had been reached to provide significant aid to Americans struggling with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Slap in the face for people suffering across the US: Critics slam watered-down COVID relief deal
Dec 24, 2020 16:21In the wake of Sunday night December 20th agreement on a roughly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that is far smaller than economists say is necessary, progressives argued that the "slap-in-the-face" bill must be passed to help stem the suffering of working-class Americans but that much more will be needed to address the crisis that has claimed more than 300,000 lives and 20 million jobs in the United States so far.