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Malawi suspends football league due to COVID-19 resurgence

Malawi joined Lesotho in suspending its football league due to a surge in the number of coronavirus infections. /VCG Image Malawi became the latest African country to suspend its top flight fo

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Chinese vice premier calls for efforts to stop virus spread in Hebei

A staff conducts disinfection work in Xingtai City, north China's Hebei Province, China, January 17, 2021. /VCGChinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan visited north China's He

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COVID-19: UK Health Secretary Hancock says self-isolating until Sunday

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Tuesday via Twitter that he is self-isolating and "will be staying at home and not leaving at all until Sunday.""We all have a part to play in getting th

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Is the virus getting smarter?

A woman takes a COVID-19 test in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province on January 16. /CFP Dozens of COVID-19 cases have been confirmed positive only after rounds of tests throughout several days as China

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New COVID-19 variant detected in Brazil

02:32 The U.K. isn't the only country grappling with a new COVID-19 variant. In the Brazilian city of Manaus, officials are dealing with a surge in cases and a new strain of the virus.

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Brazil approves emergency use of China's Sinovac vaccines

Brazil’s (National Health Surveillance Agency) has approved the emergency use of coronavirus vaccines developed by Chinese drug maker Sinovac Biotech.The approval comes as the country seeks to bolste

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Kenya's COVID-19 caseload approaches 100,000 mark

FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers and patients at the COVID-19 patient isolation center in Machakos town in eastern Kenya, August 3, 2020. /VCG Kenya's COVID-19 caseload is approaching the 100,00

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Is the virus getting smarter?

A woman takes a COVID-19 test in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province on January 16. /CFP Dozens of COVID-19 cases have been confirmed positive only after rounds of tests throughout several days as China

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Latest COVID-19 outbreak in Hebei linked to overseas cases

The resurgence of COVID-19 outbreak in north China's Hebei Province is linked to overseas cases, local authorities said on Saturday at a press conference.The primary ge

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Biden to unveil coronavirus vaccine distribution plan as cases soar

President-elect Joe Biden will on Friday outline his plan to ramp up vaccinations against COVID-19 as he prepares to take office amid soaring infection rates and an ear

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COVID19 variant: All UK travel corridors to close from Monday

All travel corridors will close from Monday, meaning everyone arriving in the UK will have to self-isolate according to the Sky News. /VCG All travel corridors will close from Monday, meaning

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NYC Vaccines to run out as Global deaths nears 2 Million

Image by AFP New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will run out of vaccines by next week due to supply shortages. President-elect Joe Biden has picked former FDA head David Kessler

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Kenya reports 138 new COVID-19 infections, total tally jumps to 98,693

Kenya's COVID-19 caseload is the ninth-highest in Africa. /VCG Kenya's health ministry on Thursday reported 138 new COVID-19 infections from 4,526 test conducted in the last 24 hours, taking t

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UK bans travelers from South America, Panama, Cape Verde and Portugal

The UK government has already rolled out a mass vaccination drive, hoping to give the jabs to 15 million people by mid-February. /Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP The UK has banned all travelers from So

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Africa's COVID-19 cases reach 3,142,781: Africa CDC

FILE PHOTO: People wearing face masks walk on a street in Cairo, Egypt, on Oct. 12, 2020. Egypt confirmed late on Sunday 129 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total cases registered in the cou

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WHO experts arrive in Wuhan for COVID-19 origin mission

A panel of World Health Organization (WHO) scientists arrive in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, January 14, 2021. /CGTN A panel of World Health Organization (WHO) scientists arrived in the

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Hundreds of thousands of ducks to be culled due to H5N8 outbreak

Men hold living ducks before putting them in cages for culling as a new epizootic disease caused by the H5N8 virus spreads in multiple European countries in Mugron, France, January 13, 2021.