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China has detected 137 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases in Kashgar in the north-western region of Xinjiang after one person was found to have the virus the previous day – the first new local cases for 10 days in mainland China.All the cases detected on Sunday were linked to a ...

ABU DHABI — To mark World Polio Day, the Emirates Polio Campaign (EPC) on Friday announced that it administered over 28 million vaccine doses in Pakistan between July and September 2020, reaching over 16 million children. The announcement comes on the heels of the EPC’s recent announcement that it ...

KEY FACTS6 a.m.: St. Michael’s Hospital declares COVID-19 outbreak in emergency department The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available. 7:30 a.m. Pakistan’s military-backed National Command and Operation Center has issued ...

ABU DHABI — Expats' remittances from the United Arab Emirates amounted to 79.6 billion dirhams ($21.7 billion approximately) in the first half of 2020 despite the global outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures released by the country’s central bank.The remittances account for 48.2 percent of the total ...

The global spread of the coronavirus has left many people wondering when and how the outbreak may subside.In March it was claimed that the British government was hoping to reduce the impact of the virus by allowing it to “pass through the entire population so that we acquire herd ...

India oi-Ajay Joseph Raj P | Updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 10:33 New Delhi, Sep 16: Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said that India's coronavirus cases tally crossed the 50-lakh mark with a spike of 90,123 cases and 1,290 deaths in the last 24 hours. As on Wednesday, ...

As India’s surging coronavirus caseload becomes an increasing worry for the globe, another health disaster is silently unfolding. The world’s strictest lockdown crippled both routine and critical health services. More than a million children have missed crucial immunizations and hospital births have shown a sharp decline, indicating many women ...

A Sunday league football team has apologised after an outbreak of coronavirus at a charity match led to 300 people having to self-isolate.  Burnside Working Men’s Club FC, in County Durham, organised the game on Sunday 30 August to raise money for the charity Cancer Lads.  But following the ...

More than a dozen African countries are currently battling outbreaks of polio caused by the virus, including Angola, Congo, Nigeria and Zambia. London: The World Health Organisation says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a week after the UN ...

The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad – a week after the UN health agency declared the African continent free of the wild polio virus. In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan ...