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Morocco starts vaccinating medics en masse against virus

Rabat, Jan 30 (AP) Scores of Moroccan health workers streamed to a spacious white tent erected outside the Avicenne University Hospital in the capital...

Top Story 30 Jan 2021

WHO team visits 2nd Wuhan hospital in virus investigation

Wuhan, Jan 30 (AP) Members of a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital th...

Top Story 30 Jan 2021

Vaccine nationalism will prolong pandemic: WHO chief

New Delhi: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said the vaccine nationalism will prolong the COVID-19 pandemic as he expressed c...

Top Story 30 Jan 2021

Taiwan reports 3% GDP growth in pandemic-hit 2020, beating China

Taipei, Jan 29 (AFP): Taiwan’s GDP grew by nearly three percent last year, official projections showed Friday, making the island one of the world’s st...

Top Story 29 Jan 2021

UN chief Antonio Guterres receives COVID-19 vaccine

New York, Jan 29 (PTI) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and appealed to people to get vaccina...

Top Story 29 Jan 2021

Revenue at Trump hotels, resorts hit hard by pandemic

New York: Donald Trump is returning to a family business ravaged by pandemic shutdowns and restrictions, with revenue plunging more than 40 per cent a...

Top Story 22 Jan 2021

Won’t be silenced: Trump after Twitter ban

Washington: Outgoing US President Donald Trump has slammed Twitter for permanently suspending him, vowing that he and his support base would not be si...

Top Story 09 Jan 2021

Australian state under fire for slow response

Sydney: Australia’s leading medical group says the New South Wales state government has put the rest of the country at risk by its decision not ...

Top Story 02 Jan 2021