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Study: Chinese COVID shot may offer elderly poor protection
Published On: July 24, 2021 07:21 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 24: A new study suggests that a Sinopharm vaccine offers poor protection from COVID-19 among the elderly, raising questions for dozens of countries that have given the Chinese company’s shots to their most vulnerable populations.
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China rebuffs WHO’s terms for further COVID-19 origins study
Published On: July 23, 2021 08:15 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, July 23: China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday.
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Rare ‘breakthrough’ COVID cases are causing alarm, confusion
Published On: July 22, 2021 07:22 AM NPT By: Associated Press
July 22: Reports of athletes, lawmakers and others getting the coronavirus despite vaccination may sound alarming but top health experts point to overwhelming evidence that the shots are doing exactly what they are supposed to: dramatically reducing severe illness and death.
Haiti appoints new prime minister in wake of president's assassination
Published On: July 21, 2021 09:25 AM NPT By: Reuters
PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 21: Haiti's government on Tuesday formally appointed Ariel Henry as prime minister, nearly two weeks after President Jovenel Moise was gunned down in a murder plot that likely extends far beyond the Caribbean country's borders.
Suicide attack in Iraq's Sadr City kills at least 35, wounds dozens -sources
Published On: July 20, 2021 07:45 AM NPT By: Reuters
BAGHDAD, July 20: A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival, security and hospital sources said.
Bangladesh lifts lockdown to celebrate, exasperating experts
Published On: July 19, 2021 11:54 AM NPT By: Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh, July 19: Waiting among hundreds of fellow travelers to catch a ferry out of Bangladesh’s capital, unemployed construction worker Mohammed Nijam knew he was risking catching the coronavirus, but he felt it was even riskier to stay in Dhaka with another lockdown looming.
'It's terrifying': Merkel shaken as flood deaths rise to 188 in Europe
Published On: July 19, 2021 07:20 AM NPT By: Reuters
BERCHTESGADEN/BISCHOFSWIESEN, Germany, July 19: German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the flooding that has devastated parts of Europe as "terrifying" on Sunday after the death toll across the region rose to 188 and a district of Bavaria was battered by the extreme weather.
Death toll rises to 170 in Germany and Belgium floods
Published On: July 18, 2021 07:55 AM NPT By: Reuters
ERFTSTADT, Germany/WASSENBERG, July 18: The death toll in devastating flooding in western Germany and Belgium rose to at least 170 on Saturday after burst rivers and flash floods this week collapsed houses and ripped up roads and power lines.
German floods kill at least 133, search for survivors continues
Published On: July 17, 2021 01:45 PM NPT By: Reuters
FRANKFURT, July 17: Rescue workers searched flood-ravaged parts of western Germany for survivors on Saturday as water levels remained high in many towns and houses continued to collapse in the country's worst natural disaster in half a century.
India's daily COVID-19 infections rise by 38,079
Published On: July 17, 2021 10:00 AM NPT By: Reuters
NEW DELHI, July 17: India on Saturday reported 38,079 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 31.06 million, health ministry data showed.
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