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  • France reports new record of more than 332,000 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours

    Date: 2022-01-05 22:27:24 GMT - France - World - SN:109 - ID:9353377

    PARIS, Jan 5 (MENA) – France registered a record of more than 332,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, while the number of deaths also rose as the country battles a fifth wave of the virus, France 24 reported. The final number of new ....

  • Advocates call for 22 billion more of mRNA vaccine doses to ward off global omicron threat

    Date: 2022-01-05 21:08:12 GMT - USA - World - SN:105 - ID:9353350

    WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) - The fast-spreading omicron variant has heightened the need for billions of additional vaccine doses to protect vulnerable populations and tamp down new variants around the world, according to a new report prepared by a ....

  • Italy reports record number of coronavirus cases for second day

    Date: 2022-01-05 20:34:39 GMT - Italy - World - SN:99 - ID:9353240

    ROME, Jan 5 (MENA) - There have been a new record 189,109 new cases of COVID-19 in Italy in the last 24 hours, and 231 more victims of the virus, the Italian Health Ministry said on Wednesday. That compares to 170,844 cases and 259 victims on ....

  • Covid-19 travel restrictions between France and UK set to be eased

    Date: 2022-01-05 18:32:26 GMT - France - World - SN:90 - ID:9353175

    PARIS, Jan 5 (MENA) - France is ready to ease the strict travel restrictions to and from the UK, The Local reported on Wednesday. Travel restrictions between France and the UK are to be eased, the French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said in ....

  • S. Korea agrees to buy additional Pfizer's anti-Covid 'Paxlovid' pills

    Date: 2022-01-05 17:24:08 GMT - south korea - World - SN:83 - ID:9353083

    SEOUL, Jan 5 (MENA) - South Korea signed an agreement to buy additional courses of Pfizer's antiviral Covid-19 pill Paxlovid to cover 400,000 people, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said on Wednesday. This brings South ....

  • Israel lodges 12,000 new Covid cases, highest daily rise In 2 years

    Date: 2022-01-05 16:14:20 GMT - palestine - World - SN:74 - ID:9353047

    RAMALLAH, Jan 5 (MENA) - Israel's health ministry on Wednesday announced nearly 12,000 new coronavirus cases, constituting the largest daily rise in infections since the beginning of the pandemic nearly two years ago, The Jerusalem Post newspaper ....

  • Polish president tests positive for Covid

    Date: 2022-01-05 16:12:14 GMT - Poland - World - SN:73 - ID:9353043

    WARSAW, Jan 5 (MENA) - Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for Covid-19 and is self-isolating, his chief of staff Pawel Szrot said on Wednesday, Poland International Radio said. "The president is fine, has no severe symptoms and is ....

  • India records first Omicron death

    Date: 2022-01-05 13:17:20 GMT - India - World - SN:50 - ID:9352470

    NEW DELHI, Jan 5 (MENA) - India on Wednesday recorded the first death linked to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus after the samples of a man in Rajasthan's Udaipur, who died last week, showed the presence of the variant, sources at the health ....

  • Russian's lawmaker says situation in Kazakhstan exclusively interior affair

    Date: 2022-01-05 12:49:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:48 - ID:9352581

    MOSCOW, Jan 5 (MENA) - The situation in Kazakhstan is an interior affair of the country, the deputy speaker of the Russian upper house, Konstantin Kosachev, told Sputnik on Wednesday when asked about possible help from Moscow to Nur-Sultan for ....

  • Russia closely monitoring situation in Kazakhstan - foreign ministry

    Date: 2022-01-05 11:55:28 GMT - Russia - World - SN:40 - ID:9352429

    MOSCOW, Jan 5 (MENA) - Moscow is closely monitoring the developments in Kazakhstan, no casualties have been reported on the Russian side so far, TASS quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying on Wednesday. "We are closely following the ....

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