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  • Pakistan reports 4,487 new coronavirus cases, 142 deaths over past 24 hours

    Date: 2021-04-27 05:47:36 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:2 - ID:8930429

    ISLAMABAD, April 27 (MENA) - Pakistan reported 4,487 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, taking the country's Covid-19 tally to 804,939. The country's death toll climbed to 17,329 after 142 people succumbed to the deadly disease, the Express ....

  • India reports world's largest daily rise with over 353,000 new Covid-19 cases

    Date: 2021-04-26 20:27:09 GMT - India - World - SN:88 - ID:8930126

    NEW DELHI, April 26 (MENA) - India recorded about a 353,000 daily increase in Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours for the second day in a row, with a total caseload crossing 17 million, the Times of India reported. With 352,991 people testing ....

  • Portugal reports no COVID-related deaths in past day, first time since August 2020

    Date: 2021-04-26 19:55:41 GMT - Portugal - World - SN:85 - ID:8930233

    LISBON, April 26 (MENA) - Portugal reported no coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours on Monday for the first time in nearly nine months as the country emerges from a two-month lockdown, the health authority said. The country has ....

  • UK reports another 6 deaths, 2,064 coronavirus infections

    Date: 2021-04-26 18:43:51 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:78 - ID:8930042

    LONDON, April 26 (MENA) - The UK has reported another six coronavirus-related deaths and 2,064 new cases in the latest 24-hour period, Sky News reported. Since the pandemic started, a total of 127,434 people have died in the UK within 28 days of ....

  • Greece reports 1,317 new coronavirus cases, 80 deaths

    Date: 2021-04-26 18:36:14 GMT - Greece - World - SN:74 - ID:8930121

    ATHENS, April 26 (MENA) – Greek health authorities announced 1,317 new cases of the coronavirus for the 24-hour period on Monday, as well as 80 deaths, according to Kathimerini newspaper. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 334,436 ....

  • Supermoon to appear in sky Tuesday -- NRIAG

    Date: 2021-04-26 10:08:08 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:33 - ID:8929023

    CAIRO, April 26 (MENA) - The full moon of April, called the Pink Moon, will occur Tuesday at 5:33 a.m., the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) reported Monday. The moon will have reached perigee by that time, NRIAG ....

  • US, UK lead global efforts to help India’s Covid crisis: paper

    Date: 2021-04-26 10:06:53 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:32 - ID:8929044

    LONDON, April 26 (MENA) - International efforts to help India fight its devastating coronavirus crisis have stepped up as the White House said the US would immediately provide raw materials for vaccine manufacture and the UK announced it had ....

  • World military spending rises to almost $2 trillion in 2020

    Date: 2021-04-26 10:00:44 GMT - Sweden - World - SN:31 - ID:8929045

    STOCKHOLM, April 26 (MENA) - Total global military expenditure rose to $1981 billion last year, an increase of 2.6 per cent in real terms from 2019, according to new data published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ....

  • South Africa declares J&J shots safe, roll-out set to resume

    Date: 2021-04-26 09:27:35 GMT - South Africa - World - SN:27 - ID:8928974

    CAPE TOWN, April 26 (MENA) - South Africa will resume administering Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccines to health-care workers on April 28, after putting their use on hold for two weeks due to concerns that they could be linked to blood clots, ....

  • Paper: Fresh covid emergency could dampen Japan’s economic recovery hope

    Date: 2021-04-26 09:10:51 GMT - Japan - World - SN:25 - ID:8928877

    TOKYO, April 26 (MENA) - Japan’s fresh state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic threatens to nip hopes for an economic recovery in the bud by further weakening consumption, economists warned. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared Friday ....

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