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WHO director: Omicron shows world needs new accord on pandemics
Date: 2021-11-29 14:48:16 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:71 - ID:9293960
GENEVA, Nov 29 (MENA) - Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom said that the emergence of the highly-mutated Omicron variant underlines just how perilous and precarious our situation is, according to a statement by ....
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Greek Foreign Ministry urges nationals to leave Ethiopia
Date: 2021-11-29 11:07:50 GMT - Greece - World - SN:45 - ID:9293441
ATHENS, Nov 29 (MENA) - Amid an escalating civil war in Ethiopia, the Greek Foreign Ministry has recommended Greek nationals planning to visit Ethiopia to cancel their trip, and for those already there to leave immediately, Kathimerini newspaper ....
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Countries break deadlock on pandemic treaty, agree to start negotiations
Date: 2021-11-29 07:07:00 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:19 - ID:9292858
GENEVA, Nov 29 (MENA) - World Health Organization member countries have agreed to start negotiations for a pandemic treaty, with the decision set to be formally adopted during the World Health Assembly starting Monday, Politico reported. The ....
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Fauci: two weeks needed to have definitive information on Omicron
Date: 2021-11-29 07:01:57 GMT - USA - World - SN:18 - ID:9292854
WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (MENA) - The top US infectious disease official, Dr Anthony Fauci, told President Joe Biden that it will take about two weeks to have definitive information on the new coronavirus variant Omicron that has sparked new travel ....
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COVID-19: S. African president warns of fourth wave as Omicron spreads to all provinces
Date: 2021-11-29 06:59:38 GMT - South Africa - World - SN:17 - ID:9292852
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 29 (MENA) - With the Omicron variant now present in all provinces of South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa has raised the possibility that the country could enter the fourth wave soon if new cases continue to increase, according ....
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China, Iran, Russia hold useful informal consultations on nuclear deal — Russian diplomat
Date: 2021-11-29 06:52:11 GMT - Russia - World - SN:15 - ID:9292884
MOSCOW, Nov 29 (MENA) - Iran, China and Russia held useful informal consultations Sunday night ahead of the beginning of the Vienna talks on the restoration of the Iran nuclear deal, TASS quoted Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based ....
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Japan to revive ban on new foreign arrivals Tues. over COVID-19 variant
Date: 2021-11-29 06:44:59 GMT - Japan - World - SN:13 - ID:9292851
TOKYO, Nov 29 (MENA) - The Japanese government will bring back its blanket ban on new entries by foreigners on Tuesday amid concerns over the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Kyodo quoted Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as saying ....
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Omicron variant: G7 to hold emergency Covid meeting as Japan closes its borders
Date: 2021-11-29 06:38:01 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:12 - ID:9292850
LONDON, Nov 29 (MENA) - G7 health ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Monday about the new Omicron Covid-19 variant spreading across the world and forcing border closures, as experts race to determine the level of threat posed by the new ....
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WHO says has no data on Omicron's ability to cause more severe disease than other strains
Date: 2021-11-29 06:30:17 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:9 - ID:9292856
GENEVA, Nov 29 (MENA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said it has no data on the potential ability of the new SARS-CoV-2 new variant, Omicron, to cause a more severe disease that other coronavirus variants, Trend News Agency reported. 'It ....
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JHU: Global coronavirus cases exceed 261 mn
Date: 2021-11-29 05:55:22 GMT - USA - World - SN:5 - ID:9292828
WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (MENA) - As many as 261,495,713 people are reported to be infected with the novel coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said on Monday. It added that 5,199,827 people have died from the virus worldwide. The US ....
