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Iran: Over 39,000 new COVID cases detected
Feb 09, 2022 09:16The number of people tested positive for the coronavirus in Iran in the past 24 hours has exceeded 39,000 cases.
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Booster campaign stalls in UK as ‘partygate’ undermines trust in official advice
Feb 08, 2022 13:33Hundreds still dying from COVID infection each day in the UK as fear of the virus wanes. Although Omicron is less deadly than previous variants, it remains a significant health risk to the estimated 5.1 million unvaccinated people aged over 12 in the UK, and the rolling seven-day average of deaths in Britain is above 240.
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Iran: COVID death toll exceeds 133,000
Feb 08, 2022 09:07The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran has surpassed 133,000, the Health Ministry said.
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Ayatollah Khamenei gets third dose of COVID vaccine
Feb 07, 2022 10:42Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has received the third dose of vaccine for the coronavirus, an Iranian physician said.
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COVID daily death toll in Iran surges to 3-digit number after weeks
Feb 07, 2022 10:37The daily death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran exceeded 100 on Monday for the first time after 69 days.
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Health regulator okays Chinese Sinopharm vaccine for use in South Africa
Feb 07, 2022 10:29A South African health regulator has approved China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for adults aged 18 and above even though a senior health official said the government would not immediately procure its doses.
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US has the highest COVID death rate among wealthy countries
Feb 06, 2022 11:51Citing figures from Johns Hopkins University, the World Bank, and the U.S. government, the New York Times reports that the US’ deaths during the ongoing Omicron wave “have now surpassed the worst days of the autumn surge of the Delta variant, and are more than two-thirds as high as the record tolls of last winter, when vaccines were largely unavailable.”
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Iran: COVID hospitalization cases are above 2,000
Feb 06, 2022 09:48The number of coronavirus patients admitted to the hospital across Iran over the past 24 hours has surpassed 2,100, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
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Provincial officials authorized to decide about COVID lockdowns in Iran
Feb 05, 2022 12:03Iran's President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi put provincial officials in charge of making decisions about coronavirus-related restrictions or lockdowns as the omicron variant of the virus has triggered the sixth wave of the pandemic in the country.
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13th British parliamentarian calls on Boris Johnson to step down as prime minister
Feb 05, 2022 10:26British member of parliament Aaron Bell has become the 13th Conservative parliamentarian to submit a no-confidence letter to 1922 Committee Chair Sir Graham Brady, publicly calling for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation over government violations of its own lockdown rules.