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Kenya reports 629 new COVID-19 cases, total tally rises to 152,523

FILE PHOTO: Passengers on board a train on the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway in Kenya wear masks in line with government-imposed measures to curb spread of COVID-19, July 13, 2020. /VCG The number o

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WHO warns COVID-19 still an international public health emergency

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. /Reuters Director-General of Word Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom warne

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Xi: China to do more to make vaccine available in developing countries

Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine vials at a vaccination center in Santiago, Chile, March 18, 2021. /CFPChina will increase efforts in international anti-pandemic cooperation an

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Madagascar to acquire Sinopharm vaccines for mass inoculations

VCG Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina on Monday announced that the island nation would seek to acquire the Chinese-manufactured Sinopharm vaccine alongside three other vaccines to be used d

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Africa's COVID-19 infections top 4.4 million

A South African health worker is inoculated with a dose of Covid-19 vaccine at the Khayelitsha Hospital in Cape Town on February 17, 2021. /Gianluigi Guercia/VCG The number of confirmed COVID-

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Kenya's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 2,500 mark

FILE PHOTO: A local isolation ward for patients with COVID-19 in Machakos, Kenya, July 28, 2020. /VCG The number of coronavirus-related deaths in Kenya surpassed the 2,500 mark on Monday as th

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Number of COVID-19 patients in France's intensive care rises

FILE PHOTO: A patient developing a severe form of Covid-19 is treated in the Covid-19 ICU at Lyon Sud Hospital, in Pierre-Benite Near Lyon. /VCG The number of coronavirus patients in intensive

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CanSino says no serious blood clots from its vaccine

CanSino said in a statement on April 14 that no serious blood clot cases had been reported in people inoculated with its COVID-19 vaccine. /CFP China's CanSino Biologics Inc. said on Wednesday

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WHO concerned by rising COVID-19 infection and death rates globally

A sign points to a COVID-19 screening station at Kayelisha Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. /VCG The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the rising rates of new COVI

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Empty middle airplane seat could cut COVID-19 exposure by 57%: CDC

Video screens are shown built into the backs of passengers seats on board a Delta Airlines Boeing aircraft in San Diego, California, U.S., January 10, 2018. /Reuters A vacant middle airplane s

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China donates COVID-19 test kits to Uganda

Chinese Ambassador to Uganda Zheng Zhuqiang poses for a picture with Uganda's Minister for Health Jane Ruth Aceng on 14 March, 2021. /Photo courtesy: Ministry of Health -Uganda China on Wednes

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EU countries reach deal on introduction of COVID travel passes

An open-top bus pictured in Madrid, Spain. /CGTN European Union countries on Wednesday agreed to launch COVID travel passes as they look to allow travel in the summer, and negotiations with th

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China's Ambassador in Somalia receives first shot of Sinopharm vaccine

Qin Jian (L), Chinese Ambassador to Somalia, and Somalia's Minister of Health and Human Services Fawziya Abikar Nur sign handover certificates of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China in Mogadishu,

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Kenya Navy conducts COVID-19 vaccination exercise to seafarers

VCG Kenya’s naval force has joined in government efforts against COVID-19 by conducting a vaccination exercise targeting seafarers.The Kenya Navy Medical team on Tuesday gave inoculations to s

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Gabonese President, First Lady get second shots of Sinopharm vaccine

FILE PHOTO: Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba and First Lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba arrive in Libreville, March 23, 2019. /VCG Photo Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba and his wife Sylvia B

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U.S. COVID cases go higher, hospitalizations up for 2nd week in a row

The United States reported an 8-percent rise in new cases of COVID-19 to 490,000 last week, the fourth week in a row that infections have increased, according to a Reuters analysis of state and count

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Kenya's COVID-19 death toll nears 2,400 mark

FILE PHOTO: A COVID-19 patient isolation center in Machakos town in eastern Kenya, on August 3, 2020. /VCG The number of reported coronavirus-related deaths in Kenya is closing in on the 2,400