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  • Mexico reports 6,469 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2021-03-12 15:04:19 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:53 - ID:8846288

    MEXICO CITY, March 12 (MENA) - Mexico has registered 6,469 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 2,150,955 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University's figures on ....

  • Austria reports 3,126 new coronavirus infections, 33 deaths in past 24 hours

    Date: 2021-03-12 14:53:50 GMT - Austria - World - SN:52 - ID:8846290

    VIENNA, March 12 (MENA) - The Health Ministry reported 3,126 new coronavirus cases and 33 fatalities in the past 24 hours. In a statement on Friday, the ministry added that the total number of COVID-19 infections in the country reached 488,042, ....

  • About 1 million Czech residents vaccinated against COVID-19

    Date: 2021-03-12 14:47:10 GMT - Czech - World - SN:50 - ID:8846207

    PRAGUE, March 12 (MENA) - Almost 1 million residents of the Czech Republic have now received at least one vaccination against Covid-19. So far, 288,000 people have been immunized with the necessary two doses, the Ministry of Health announced on ....

  • Italy set to impose national lockdown over Easter weekend

    Date: 2021-03-12 14:43:28 GMT - Italy - World - SN:48 - ID:8846211

    ROME, March 12 (MENA) - Italy is set to impose another national lockdown over the Easter weekend to combat growing numbers of coronavirus cases, Sky news reported. It will see non-essential shops closed from April 3-5, with people only allowed ....

  • IFJ: 65 journalists & media workers killed in 2020

    Date: 2021-03-12 14:19:00 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:46 - ID:8846322

    BRUSSELS, March 12 (MENA) - A total of 65 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2020 while doing their jobs, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), ABC news reported on Friday. That is 17 more than in ....

  • Third Covid-19 wave started in Pakistan - minister

    Date: 2021-03-12 14:18:27 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:45 - ID:8846203

    ISLAMABAD, March 12 (MENA) - Pakistani Federal Minister Asad Umar has confirmed that the third wave of Covid-19 has started in the country and attributed the rising number of cases to the virus' UK strain, the Express Tribune newspaper reported on ....

  • Singapore reports 10 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2021-03-12 14:18:14 GMT - Singapore - World - SN:44 - ID:8846287

    SINGAPORE, March 12 (MENA) - There were 10 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Friday noon, taking Singapore's total to 60,080, the Straits Times reported. One of these cases is in the community, while the other nine are imported case who had ....

  • Wales lifts 'stay at home' lockdown order ahead Easter

    Date: 2021-03-12 11:45:38 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:38 - ID:8846074

    LONDON, March 12 (MENA) - Welsh people will be able to take holidays within Wales at Easter, the first minister was quoted by the Independent as saying on Friday. Mark Drakeford, the Labour leader in Wales, said today: "We will reopen ....

  • Japan to receive 100 million doses of Pfizer vaccine by June as Tokyo 2020 looms

    Date: 2021-03-12 11:30:27 GMT - Japan - World - SN:35 - ID:8846068

    TOKYO, March 12 (MENA) - Japan is to receive 100 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by June - one month before the Olympic Games get underway in Tokyo. According to Kyodo News, Vaccine Minister Taro Kono revealed Japan would ....

  • Malaysia records 1,575 new daily Covid-19 cases, three deaths

    Date: 2021-03-12 11:24:21 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:34 - ID:8846061

    KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 (MENA) - The Ministry of Health (MoH) said there were 1,575 new Covid-19 infections and three deaths from the coronavirus in Malaysia over the last 24 hours, the Malay Mail said. In a statement, its director-general Dr Noor ....

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