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  • WHO: Afghanistan’s health system on brink of collapse

    Date: 2021-09-22 14:13:14 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:78 - ID:9180113

    GENEVA, Sept 22 (MENA) - Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed Al-Mandhari said Afghanistan’s health system is on the brink of ....

  • UN pledges dlrs 45 mn in support of Afghanistan's health sector

    Date: 2021-09-22 09:38:00 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:45 - ID:9179336

    GENEVA, Sept 22 (MENA) - United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said the UN announced allocating dlrs 45 mn by the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) in support of Afghanistan's health sector, a ....

  • UAE eases face mask rules in some public places

    Date: 2021-09-22 08:53:05 GMT - United Arab Emirates - World - SN:35 - ID:9179344

    ABU DHABI, Sept 22 (MENA) - The UAE government has eased the wearing of masks in some public places, The National reported. The decision will be most significant in Abu Dhabi, where rules required people to wear a mask in almost all public ....

  • Approach to Russia and China to be based on common values - Johnson and Biden

    Date: 2021-09-22 08:45:56 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:34 - ID:9179292

    LONDON, Sept 22 (MENA) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the United States President Joe Biden agreed that the approach to Russia and China should be based on the common values shared by both London and Washington, said Johnson's spokesman ....

  • Germany reports more than 10,000 coronavirus cases

    Date: 2021-09-22 07:47:56 GMT - Germany - World - SN:27 - ID:9179126

    BERLIN, Sept 22 (MENA) - Germany reported 10,454 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 4,160,970, Bild newspaper reported Wednesday quoting data from Robert Koch Institute ....

  • Brazil health minister tests positive for coronavirus

    Date: 2021-09-22 07:43:47 GMT - Brazil - World - SN:26 - ID:9179125

    BRASILIA, Sept 22 (MENA) - Brazil’s government says its health minister has tested positive for the coronavirus in New York after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro spoke at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, ABC News reported ....

  • Australia reports 1,681 new COVID-19 cases, 8 deaths

    Date: 2021-09-22 07:39:25 GMT - Australia - World - SN:24 - ID:9179097

    CANBERRA, Sept 22 (MENA) - The Australian Health Ministry said 1,681 new coronavirus cases and eight virus-related deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 90,391 and the fatalities to 1,186. The ....

  • JHU: Global coronavirus cases hit 229,508,037

    Date: 2021-09-22 07:19:51 GMT - USA - World - SN:20 - ID:9179098

    WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (MENA) - As many as 229,508,037 people are reported to have been infected with the novel coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said on Wednesday. It added that 4,707,821 people have died from the virus ....

  • India reports 26,964 new Covid cases

    Date: 2021-09-22 06:42:11 GMT - India - World - SN:16 - ID:9179044

    NEW DELHI, Sept 22 (MENA) - India registered 26,964 new Covid-19 cases and 383 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday. The case tally has been pushed to 33,531,498, The Times of India reported. The active ....

  • Magnitude 5.8 earthquake causes some damage in Australia

    Date: 2021-09-22 06:31:58 GMT - Australia - World - SN:13 - ID:9179066

    SYDNEY, Sept 22 (MENA) - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake caused damage in the city of Melbourne on Wednesday in an unusually powerful temblor for Australia, ABC News reported. The quake hit northeast of Australia’s second-most populous city near the ....

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