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The United States is facing a COVID-19 summer surge

FILE PIC: A COVID patient in being wheeled from an ambulance in the United States. /Xinhua The United States is facing a COVID-19 surge this summer as the more contagious delta variant spreads

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Strong second quarter growth belies fears over Delta variant

01:40 The U.S.posted further evidence on Thursday that its economy has put the devastating impact of the pandemic behind it.Economic output expanded six and-a-half percent over the last

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City-wide COVID-19 testing underway in Nanjing

Click arrows to view gallery A COVID-19 outbreak that first started in the airport of the Chinese city of Nanjing is thought to have spread to five provinces, including Beiji

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Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged

02:10 The U.S.FederalReservehas leftinterestrates unchanged at near zero, saying the U.S. economy continues to “strengthen.” That’s despite the highly infectious delta variant driving u

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Health leaders grapple with prospect of reversing course on masks

02:38 Public workers around the U.S are being given an ultimatum: get vaccinated or face regular COVID-19 testing.The new directives have been issued as the seven-day average of new cas

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CGTN Explainer: Decoding China's plan to inoculate its population

06:35 Despite a slow start, China's vaccination campaign has maintained a steady speed over the last few months. The country is on track to meet its target of inoculati

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Argentina reaches 100,000 COVID-19 deaths

02:44 Argentina hassurpassed100,000 COVID-19 deaths.The tragic number comesdespitethe countryramping up its vaccine campaign and a warning by health authorities about the potential spre

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Chinese companies to supply millions of COVID-19 vaccines to COVAX

A picture taken on March 5, 2021 at an international airport in Entebbe, Uganda shows boxes of COVID-19 vaccines being unloaded from a plane after their delivery as a part of the UN-led Covax ini

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Philippines to impose travel ban on Indonesia to curb Delta variant

The Philippines will ban all travelers from Indonesia from July 16 to July 31 to prevent the spread of the highly infectious coronavirus Delta variant, presidential spo

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Delta coronavirus cases spike in U.S.

02:48 After several months of encouraging news, cases of COVID-19 are on the increase in the U.S. and the Delta variant of the coronavirus isprimarily toblame.The Delta variant now make

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COVID-19: Delta variant spikes U.S. cases

01:36 Drugmaker Pfizer was meeting with U.S. officials on Monday to discuss plans for a COVID-19 vaccination booster shot.Health authorities say they don’t think it’s necessary, even th

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G20 signs off on tax crackdown, warns on virus variants

Finance chiefs of the G20 large economies endorsed a landmark move to stop multinationals from shifting profits to low-tax havens at talks on Saturday. They will also warn that coronavirus variants t

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SW China's Yunnan reports 15 new local COVID-19 cases

Southwest China's Yunnan Province reported 15 confirmed and two asymptomaticcases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, said local health authorities on Wednesday.All of the 15 are c

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Scenes from the red carpet at this year's Cannes Film Festival

The 74th Cannes Film Festival kicks off in the French resort town on Tuesday, after being cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Organizers are attempting the fir

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Foreigners entering Indonesia required to show vaccination cards

Foreigners entering Indonesia are required to show COVID-19 vaccination cards and negative results of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests from July 6, except for fore

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Germany's Merkel makes last UK visit before leaving office

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is likely to push Angela Merkel to drop her efforts to impose COVID-19 restrictions on British travelers as the German chancellor make

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Hong Kong to ban flights from UK over Delta COVID-19 variant concerns

A sign in front of British Airways check-in counters in the departures hall at the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, China, on January 26, 2021. /CFPChina's