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  • Brazil tops 10 million coronavirus cases

    Date: 2021-02-19 07:16:32 GMT - Brazil - World - SN:9 - ID:8806864

    BRASILIA, Feb 19 (MENA) - Brazil surpassed 10 million cases of coronavirus Thursday, according to data from the country’s health ministry. Brazil recorded 51,879 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the country’s total number of cases to 10,030,626, ....

  • India confirms 13,193 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours

    Date: 2021-02-19 07:00:40 GMT - India - World - SN:8 - ID:8806856

    NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (MENA) - India registered 13,193 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, taking the overall count to 10,963,394, Times of India newspaper reported Friday. The Union Health Ministry data showed that 97 new coronavirus-related ....

  • Pakistan registers 1,245 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2021-02-19 06:54:19 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:7 - ID:8806854

    ISLAMABAD, Feb 19 (MENA) - Pakistan reported 1,245 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, taking the country's Covid-19 tally to 568,506, The Express Tribune newspaper reported Friday. The country's death toll climbed to 12,527 after 39 people ....

  • South Korea reports 561 new COVID-19 cases, 6 deaths

    Date: 2021-02-19 06:52:50 GMT - south korea - World - SN:6 - ID:8806853

    SEOUL, Feb 19 (MENA) - South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases fell back to below 600 on Friday, while authorities are stepping up monitoring of plants and hospitals to slow the rapid pace of virus transmission, Yonhap News Agency reported. The ....

  • About 57.7 million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the US

    Date: 2021-02-18 22:08:28 GMT - USA - World - SN:111 - ID:8806798

    WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (MENA) - About 57.7 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in the United States, according to data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reported that 57,737,767 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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% ....

  • 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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