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Canada approves AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine
Date: 2021-02-26 15:57:12 GMT - Canada - World - SN:59 - ID:8819548
OTTAWA, Feb 26 (MENA) - Health Canada has approved the use of the COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca, clearing the way for millions of more inoculations in Canada, CBC news reported Friday. Canada's regulatory experts had been assessing the ....
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Azerbaijan reports 219 new COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Date: 2021-02-26 15:54:00 GMT - Azerbaijan - World - SN:58 - ID:8819429
BAKU, Feb 26 (MENA) - Azerbaijan has detected 219 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the caseload in the country since the outbreak of the pandemic to 233,989, Trend news agency reported. Also, some 180 patients have recovered; the total recoveries ....
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Germany reports 9,997 new coronavirus cases, 394 fatalities
Date: 2021-02-26 15:52:42 GMT - Germany - World - SN:57 - ID:8819430
BERLIN, Feb 26 (MENA) - Germany recorded on Friday, 9,997 new coronavirus infections - a rise of 884 cases compared to the same day last week, according to the RKI - bringing the total for the pandemic to 2,424,684. Germany coronavirus deaths ....
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New Delhi reports 256 new coronavirus cases
Date: 2021-02-26 15:51:45 GMT - India - World - SN:56 - ID:8819457
NEW DELHI, Feb 26 (MENA) - Delhi recorded as many as 256 new coronavirus cases and one death on Friday, raising the tally of COVID-19 cases in the national capital to 638,849 and the death toll to 10,906, India TV reported. The number of active ....
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German defense minister visits troops in Afghanistan
Date: 2021-02-26 15:48:31 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:54 - ID:8819456
KABUL, Feb 26 (MENA) - The German defense minister arrived in Afghanistan Friday for an unannounced visit to the country's troops there, ABC news reported. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that Germany is ready to "continue supporting Afghanistan ....
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Iran confirms 8,103 new coronavirus cases
Date: 2021-02-26 14:06:09 GMT - Iran - World - SN:47 - ID:8819426
TEHRAN, Feb 26 (MENA) - Iran’s Health Ministry Spokesperson Sima Lari said the number of total coronavirus cases in the country has so far reached 1,615,184 after recording 8,103 new cases on Friday with the death toll standing at 59,899, IRNA news ....
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Afghanistan registers 11 new coronavirus cases, one death
Date: 2021-02-26 12:58:21 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:43 - ID:8819253
KABUL, Feb 26 (MENA) - The Afghan Ministry of Public Health on Friday reported 11 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,385 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry also reported one death and four recoveries from COVID-19 in the ....
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Seoul sounds alarm on humanitarian crisis in North Korea
Date: 2021-02-26 12:54:17 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:42 - ID:8819210
LONDON, Feb 26 (MENA) - South Korea has warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis and meals shortages unfolding in North Korea as chief Kim Jong Un grapples with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the Financial Times reported. Lee ....
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Japan: State of emergency to be lifted in 6 prefectures
Date: 2021-02-26 12:48:44 GMT - Japan - World - SN:41 - ID:8819259
TOKYO, Feb 26 (MENA) - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said coronavirus conditions in six prefectures have improved enough to lift a state of emergency at the end of the month. But the declaration will remain in place for Tokyo and three ....
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Explosion destroys cafe, injures 3 people in Russia
Date: 2021-02-26 12:37:06 GMT - Russia - World - SN:39 - ID:8819153
MOSCOW, Feb 26 (MENA) - An explosion destroyed a café building and injured three people in a Russian city 400 kilometers east of Moscow, Interfax news agency quoted emergency officials as saying. The blast in Nizhny Novgorod on Friday morning ....