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US sees steepest single-year decline in life expectancy since World War II
Jul 25, 2021 04:32The coronavirus pandemic cut US life expectancy by a year and a half in 2020, down to 77.3 years, according to CDC data released recently. The huge drop was also driven by increased deaths from overdoses, murders, diabetes, and alcohol-related liver disease.
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UK will be exposed to paying pandemic cost risks for decades: Reports
Jul 25, 2021 03:46The British government will be exposed to financial risks for decades over the estimated £372 billion it spent on pandemic-containing measures, according to two reports by UK parliament's Public Accounts Committee.
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Sage adviser claims ministers trying to get as many as possible infected with COVID
Jul 24, 2021 04:31A scientist advising the British government has accused ministers of allowing infections to rip through the younger population in an effort to bolster levels of immunity before the NHS faces winter pressures.
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Republican governor says ‘time to start blaming unvaccinated’ for rise in cases
Jul 24, 2021 04:14More than 600,000 people in the US have died so far due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst death toll in the world, and Republican strategists have warned that the party may be blamed by its voters if this total keeps climbing with further COVID outbreaks.
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Thousands protest against Sydney lockdown restrictions
Jul 24, 2021 03:00Thousands of people took to the streets of Sydney and other Australian cities on Saturday to protest lockdown restrictions amid another surge in cases.
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White House: Facebook and YouTube spreading vaccine misinformation
Jul 24, 2021 01:49The White House has blamed Facebook and YouTube for spreading misinformation about COVID vaccines and said the American social media giants are not doing enough to stop it, according to sources familiar with the Biden administration's thinking.
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Fireworks mark start of Olympics opening ceremony
Jul 24, 2021 00:56Japan has officially inaugurated the 2020 Olympics after a one-year delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. Basketball star Samad Nikkhah Bahrami and 2019 World Cup bronze medalist shooter Hanieh Rostami led out the Iranian delegation at the opening ceremony.
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Leader receives second dose of home-made COVID vaccine
Jul 23, 2021 05:15Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has blamed the disruption in people’s access to coronavirus vaccines on breach of promises by foreign vaccine sellers, reiterating his call for self-reliance in vaccine production.
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Trump says Americans 'refusing to take the vaccine' due to mistrust of Biden administration
Jul 23, 2021 15:37Former President Donald Trump has recently issued a statement saying that Americans are "refusing" to take the coronavirus vaccine due to mistrust of the Biden administration, the media and the 2020 presidential election results.
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Oxfam slams Bezos space trip as billions suffer on earth
Jul 23, 2021 15:27In response to Jeff Bezos' space flight, Deepak Xavier, Oxfam International's Global Head of Inequality Campaign, said: “We've now reached stratospheric inequality. Billionaires burning into space, away from a world of pandemic, climate change and starvation. 11 people are likely now dying of hunger each minute while Bezos prepares for an 11-minute personal space flight. This is human folly, not human achievement.”