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Nevada detects state’s first case of Covid-19 variant first identified in South Africa
Date: 2021-02-18 21:59:59 GMT - USA - World - SN:110 - ID:8806800
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (MENA) - Health officials in Nevada State, in western the US, detected the state’s first known case of the B.1.351 coronavirus variant, first identified in South Africa, in a sample collected in Reno, CNN reported according to a ....
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Canada receives over 400,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week
Date: 2021-02-18 20:59:13 GMT - Canada - World - SN:105 - ID:8806778
OTTAWA, Feb 18 (MENA) - Canada has received 400,000 doses of vaccinations from Pfizer-BioNTech this week. The shipment is the largest Canada has received since shipments began in December. The federal government has been criticized for its ....
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WHO launches its second SPRP plan for 2021, financial needs reach 1.96 billion U.S. dollars
Date: 2021-02-18 20:46:45 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:103 - ID:8806407
GENEVA, Feb 18 (MENA) - World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Thursday that the organization launched its second Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) for the COVID-19 pandemic. At a press ....
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More than 1.8 million vaccine doses have been administered in Pennsylvania so far
Date: 2021-02-18 20:19:20 GMT - USA - World - SN:99 - ID:8806748
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (MENA) - The US State of Pennsylvania has administered more than 1.8 million vaccine doses so far, and expects 326,850 doses to have been allocated through Feb. 20, CNN reported. According to the state's health department, 85% ....
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Athens protests new Turkish Navtex conducting surveys between the Greek islands
Date: 2021-02-18 19:19:49 GMT - Greece - World - SN:94 - ID:8806582
ATHENS, Feb 18 (MENA) – Greece’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday lodged a demarche with Turkey’s Foreign Ministry through its embassy in Ankara in protest at the announced plans for an upcoming Turkish hydrographic survey between the Greek islands of ....
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Italy reports 13,762 new coronavirus cases
Date: 2021-02-18 18:52:28 GMT - Italy - World - SN:90 - ID:8806579
ROME, Feb 18 (MENA) – Italy reported on Thursday 13,762 new coronavirus cases and 347 more deaths in the last 24 hours, ANSA reported. That compared with 12,074 new cases and 369 more victims on Wednesday. The current positive cases are ....
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Greece registers new 1,400 coronavirus infections
Date: 2021-02-18 18:07:04 GMT - Greece - World - SN:87 - ID:8806578
ATHENS, Feb 18 (MENA) – Greece confirmed 1,400 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, of which 10 were identified at entry points to the country, The National Herald reported Thursday. Confirmed infections since the pandemic began ....
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Chinese FM warns of ‘Vaccine Nationalism’
Date: 2021-02-18 09:28:06 GMT - China - World - SN:25 - ID:8805436
BEIJING, Feb 18 (MENA) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the world to reject “vaccine nationalism” and promote fair and equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, adding that China has exported vaccines to 22 countries. Speaking at a ....
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New COVID-19 cases over 600 for 2nd day, virus fight struggling with cluster infections
Date: 2021-02-18 09:24:20 GMT - south korea - World - SN:23 - ID:8805431
SEOUL, Feb 18 (MENA) - South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases stayed in the 600s for a second consecutive day on Thursday as infections at a slew of manufacturing plants and hospitals surged, prompting authorities to guard against a potential ....
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US records more than 68,000 new infections
Date: 2021-02-18 08:55:41 GMT - USA - World - SN:20 - ID:8805432
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (MENA) - At least 68, 419 new Covid-19 cases and 2,366 virus related deaths were reported in the United States on Thursday, CNN quoted Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases. To date, there have been at least 27,825,043 cases ....
