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Fauci says US reevaluating travel ban on African countries
Dec 06, 2021 09:06Top US infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci has said the United States will “hopefully” be able to lift its travel ban on African countries “in a quite reasonable period of time,” which the United Nations has denounced as “travel apartheid.”
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Next pandemic could be more lethal than COVID: Vaccine creator
Dec 06, 2021 09:02Future pandemics could be even more lethal than COVID-19 so the lessons learned from the outbreak must not be squandered and the world should ensure it is prepared for the next viral onslaught, one of the creators of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine said.
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Omicron variant found in almost one-third of US states
Dec 06, 2021 05:59The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has spread to about one-third of US states, but the Delta version remains the majority of COVID-19 cases nationwide, US health officials said on Sunday.
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Hundreds queue for virus tests in South Korea as cases reach record levels
Dec 06, 2021 04:09Hundreds form long lines waiting to be tested for coronavirus as cases reach record highs of more than 5,000 infections daily.
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South Korea reports 3 more Omicron cases
Dec 05, 2021 12:15South Korea on Sunday reported three more Omicron coronavirus variant cases, bringing its total confirmed so far to 12, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.
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COVID-19 updates in Iran: Daily hospitalizations below 600
Dec 05, 2021 07:40The number of the coronavirus patients admitted to the hospital across Iran over the past 24 hours stood at around 590, the Health Ministry said.
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Does the Omicron variant mean COVID is going to become more transmissible?
Dec 05, 2021 07:00In the case of coronavirus, there is also an obvious hole in the argument: transmission normally occurs before symptoms start or during the earliest stage of symptoms, meaning that severity of illness has little influence on the spread of the virus.
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Iran to press on with vaccination of foreigners: President
Dec 05, 2021 03:22Unlike certain European states, Iran began to inoculate foreign nationals against the coronavirus since the outbreak of the pandemic and will keep on doing so vigorously, President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi said.
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COVID daily deaths in Iran at lowest level in 9 months
Dec 05, 2021 02:49The daily death toll from the coronavirus in Iran stood at the lowest rate over the past nine months on Saturday with 58 fatalities.
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Omicron ‘ultimate evidence’ of danger of unequal vaccination across world: Red Cross
Dec 04, 2021 04:51The emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is the “ultimate evidence” of the danger of unequal vaccination rates around the world, the head of the Red Cross said on Friday.