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Virus chaos pushes more expats to join Hong Kong exodus
Mar 07, 2022 10:40Hong Kong used mainland China's "zero-Covid" strategy to keep the virus at bay, until the highly infectious Omicron variant broke through at the start of the year.
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COVID death toll in Iran surpasses 138,000
Mar 07, 2022 09:36The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran has exceeded 138,000, the Health Ministry said.
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Trucks, RVs and cars flock to Washington area to protest COVID restrictions
Mar 06, 2022 05:38Over a thousand large trucks, recreational vehicles and cars have gathered on the outskirts of Washington as part of a demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions.
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Iran reports 6,470 new COVID-19 cases
Mar 04, 2022 10:01Iran reported 6,470 new infections on Friday, among which 1,275 were hospitalized, as 184 cities are still in red zone for COVID-19, according to Iran's Health Ministry.
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Some 1,300 new COVID cases hospitalized in Iran
Mar 03, 2022 09:24The number of coronavirus patients admitted to the hospital across Iran over the past 24 hours stood at around 1,300, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
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COVID cases, deaths continue to fall globally: WHO
Mar 02, 2022 13:32The number of new coronavirus cases reported globally dropped by 16% last week, marking a month-long decline in COVID-19 infections, according to figures from the World Health Organization.
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Over 6,000 new COVID cases detected in Iran
Mar 02, 2022 08:39The number of people tested positive for the coronavirus in Iran in the past 24 hours exceeded 6,200 cases.
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Will we get a single, variant-proof vaccine for COVID?
Mar 01, 2022 12:56At the moment we have no pan-variant vaccine for any endemic virus. Researchers have long dreamed of a universal vaccine that would make flu epidemics less lethal, and there are now promising signs that it could be possible. The design principle for a universal COVID vaccine would follow similar lines.
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Critics blast Biden rebrand of Trump’s Medicare privatization scheme
Feb 28, 2022 12:26Rejecting pressure to terminate the program in its entirety, the Biden administration has recently announced it is redesigning a Trump-era experiment that physicians and progressive lawmakers have criticized as a scheme to fully privatize Medicare.
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COVID daily deaths in Iran above 200
Feb 28, 2022 11:06The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran has surpassed 136,800 after 207 more patients succumbed to the disease, the Health Ministry said.