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Toronto, Aug 19 : Canada’s decision to ban direct flights from India till September 21 while allowing vaccinated family-class passengers and students from all other countries has not gone down well with the Indo-Canadian community.As a result of the …

San Francisco, Aug 19 : Facebook has removed more than 20 million pieces of content from its platform and Instagram globally for violation of its policies on Covid-related misinformation, the social media giant said.Since the start of the pandemic la…

Dhaka, Aug 19 : Militant outfit Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh chief, Junaid Babunagari, died on Thursday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Chittagong.He was 68. Further details regarding his hospitalisation and death could not be known immedia…

Stockholm, Aug 19 : A new strain of the Covid-19 Delta variant has been found in Sweden, with some cases being among fully vaccinated individuals, local media reported.Eight infections caused by the Delta variant with the E484Q mutation have been fou…

Geneva, Aug 19 : Vaccine nationalism by developed countries would prolong the Covid-19 pandemic, when it could be ended in a matter of months by sharing doses and scaling up manufacturing equitably, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.Accord…

New York, Aug 19 : The early Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the US prevented nearly 1,40,000 deaths and three million corona cases by the second week of May, according to a new study.The study, published online by the journal Health Affairs, estima…

Kathmandu, Aug 19 : A total of 7,141 suicides were recorded in Nepal in the 2020-21 fiscal year that ended in mid-July, up 14.2 per cent year-on-year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest data released by the police.Of the deaths, 3,928…

Kathmandu, Aug 19 : A total of 7,141 suicides were recorded in Nepal in the 2020-21 fiscal year that ended in mid-July, up 14.2 per cent year-on-year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest data released by the police.Of the deaths, 3,928…

Washington, Aug 19 : The global coronavirus caseload has topped 209.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.39 million and vaccinations soared to over 4.78 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Thur…

Colombo, Aug 19 : The Sri Lankan government has decided to inoculate every citizen above 18 years of age by September 30 in an effort to curb the fast spreading Covid-19 pandemic.The Cabinet has decided to purchase nine million doses of the Sinopharm…