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US Justice Department sues Walmart, alleging it helped fuel the opioid crisis
Dec 23, 2020 05:30The Justice Department on Tuesday announced it is suing Walmart, accusing the company of helping to fuel the U.S. opioid crisis by unlawfully distributing controlled substances at its pharmacies around the country.
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Trucks stranded at UK border
Dec 23, 2020 04:48According to Iran Press, nearly 3,000 trucks remained stranded in southeastern England after France closed the border over fears of a potentially more contagious coronavirus variant.
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Almost 904,000 patients recover from the coronavirus infection in Iran
Dec 23, 2020 02:49The death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic surpassed 54,000 in Iran.
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One in every 5 US prisoners has tested positive for COVID-19
Dec 22, 2020 16:58Nearly every prison system in the US has seen infection rates significantly higher than the communities around them. In facilities run by the federal Bureau of Prisons, one of every five prisoners has had coronavirus. Twenty-four state prison systems have had even higher rates.
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US population growth falls to lowest in a century amid pandemic fallout
Dec 22, 2020 16:47The United States is on pace for the slowest population growth in a century amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to analysts, and economists worry it will hamper economic recovery.
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Travel chaos in EU as health crisis worsens
Dec 22, 2020 04:50In each of the 27 EU nations, the Pfizer/ BioNTech vaccines will start being used in less than a week's time, on the 27th of December.
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Iran orders quarantine measures for travelers from UK amid mutant virus reports
Dec 22, 2020 04:23Iran has ordered quarantine measures affecting travelers who arrived from the United Kingdom over the past two weeks amid reports that a new variant of the coronavirus has been circulating in the European country.
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India becomes latest country to suspend all travel to UK as fears of new coronavirus variant intensifies
Dec 22, 2020 03:51India has become the latest country to suspend all travel to the UK effective from December 23-30 due to mounting concerns about the potency of a new variant of Covid-19.
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COVID cases in US prisons and ICE immigration jails surpass 250,000
Dec 21, 2020 12:42As new coronavirus cases and deaths surge in the US, the combined number of confirmed cases among people incarcerated in immigration jails and state and federal prisons has surpassed 250,000, according to federal data and the Marshall Project.
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Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic
Dec 21, 2020 12:37To some, it might seem too soon to contemplate the next global outbreak, with the world still grappling with the devastating fallout of the ongoing one. But scientists say it's highly like that, without savvy intervention, another novel virus will jump from animal to human host and find the conditions to spread like wildfire.