Health & Life
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Johnson voices ‘serious concern’ over Delta variant in hint at delay to lockdown end
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday expressed “serious concern” about rising infections of the Delta variant of coronavirus,…
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Doctors advise British govt to put off easing of lockdown
LONDON: Britain’s main doctors’ union has joined calls for the next planned lockdown easing in England to be delayed, as…
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US to donate 500m Pfizer doses to poor nations
CARBIS BAY: The United States will spend $3.5 billion to buy and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus…
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WHO urges Covid jab makers to give Covax 50pc of doses
GENEVA: The WHO on Monday called for Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to give Covax first refusal on new doses, or commit…
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Delta variant is ‘40pc more transmissible’, says UK minister
LONDON: The Delta variant of the coronavirus is estimated to be 40 percent more transmissible than the Alpha variant that…
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Indian states begin easing Covid lockdowns as case numbers decline
Some of India’s states are easing lockdown restrictions as coronavirus infections subside, with the world’s second-most-populous nation on Saturday logging…
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Covid-19 Delta variant, first detected in India, threatens to rapidly spread in Asia Pacific region: UNHCR
The highly infectious Covid-19 variant first detected in India threatens to rapidly spread in the Asia Pacific region, including areas…
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Covid variants get new names
GENEVA: Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have now been assigned the letters of the Greek alphabet to simplify discussion…
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Global warming blamed for one in three heat-related deaths
PARIS: More than a third of summer heat-related fatalities are due to climate change, researchers said on Monday, warning of…
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China confirms first human case of bird flu strain, says risk of spreading is low
China reported the world’s first human infection of the H10N3 bird flu strain on Tuesday but said the risk of…
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