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Lockdowns, curfews and travel bans imposed as Omicron spreads like ‘lightning’ across Europe
Dec 19, 2021 08:22The highly-transmissible variant of the coronavirus has swept across Europe and elsewhere in the world, with European officials warning that Omicron is spreading like “lightning” and causing “chaos.”
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COVID hardly killed weapons biz: Top companies see $513 billion in sales
Dec 19, 2021 06:19Major U.S. arms companies accounted for no less than 54 percent of all weapons sales of the world’s 100 biggest arms suppliers in 2020, according to a new report, the latest in an annual series published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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COVID death toll in Iran exceeds 131,000
Dec 19, 2021 03:41The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran has risen to above 131,000, the Health Ministry said.`
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Iranian ambassador to Yemen returning home to receive COVID-19 treatment: Spokesman
Dec 19, 2021 03:19The Iranian ambassador to Yemen is being taken back home to receive treatment for COVID-19, says Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh.
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Iran has no city in COVID-19 high-risk red zone
Dec 18, 2021 12:36No city in Iran has been in the COVID-19 high-risk red zone during the past 24 hours, the country's Health Ministry and Medical Education said on Saturday.
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Biden warns of winter of 'severe illness and death' as Omicron rages on
Dec 17, 2021 10:55US President Joe Biden on Thursday warned that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is going to spread more rapidly in the country and a winter of “severe illness and death” awaits the unvaccinated.
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UK COVID cases hit record high as hospitals struggle with staff shortages
Dec 17, 2021 10:29The UK hits the record for the number of COVID-19 cases, with 88,376 new cases, of which, more than 10,000 have been confirmed as Omicron variant.
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Coronavirus in Iran: Zero deaths in 16 provinces
Dec 17, 2021 09:03Half of the 32 provinces in Iran have reported zero new deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, as the country has marked one of the lowest daily fatalities in the past nine months.
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Survey finds sharpest decline in public opinion about health care in the US
Dec 17, 2021 06:18The largest survey of its kind since the start of the Covid-19 crisis found that 38% of respondents — representing around 100 million Americans — characterized the for-profit U.S. healthcare system as either “expensive” or “broken,” an indication that the pandemic has markedly shifted public opinion.
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‘A terrible tragedy’: US passes 800,000 COVID deaths – highest in the world
Dec 17, 2021 03:36The US death toll from COVID-19 has passed 800,000, a once-unimaginable figure seen as doubly tragic given that more than 200,000 of those lives were lost after vaccines became available last spring.