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Washington, Aug 2 : Besides the surging cases of infections from the Delta variant, the US is also seeing a rise in cases of a respiratory virus known as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a highly contagious, flu-like illness, that is typically mo…

Beijing, Aug 2 : China’s Jiangsu province has reported 40 new locally transmitted confirmed Covid-19 cases amid an ongoing resurgence, the local health commission said on Monday.Among them, 11 were reported in Nanjing, the provincial capital, 26 in t…

Havana, Aug 2 : Cuba on Sunday set a new daily record of 9,747 cases and 87 deaths from Covid-19, bringing the total number of infections to 394,343 and the death toll to 2,845.The Ministry of Public Health said in its daily report that three pregnan…

Washington, Aug 2 : The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 198.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.22 million and vaccinations soared to over 4.11 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on …

Tehran, Aug 2 : Iran on Sunday reported 32,511 new Covid-19 cases, raising the country’s total infections to 3,903,519.The pandemic has so far claimed 90,996 lives in Iran, up by 366 in the past 24 hours, the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Ed…

Moscow, Aug 2 : Russia confirmed 22,804 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 6,288,677, the official monitoring and response centre said on Sunday.The nationwide death toll grew by 789 to 159,352, while the tot…

Bangkok, Aug 2 : Thailand announced on Sunday to extend tighter pandemic control measures in the capital Bangkok and other worst-hit regions possibly till the end of August to contain the worst-ever wave of the outbreak, which has brought its total c…

Suva, Aug 2 : Fiji has reported 632 new cases of Covid-19 for the last 24 hours and two more deaths, according to permanent secretary for Health James Fong on Sunday.There have been 237 new recoveries, which means that there are now 22,100 active cas…

Phnom Penh, Aug 2 : A plane carrying a new batch of China-donated Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine touched down in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, on Sunday, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said.A new batch of vaccine arrived on Sunday morn…

Beirut, Aug 2 : Lebanon registered on Sunday 1,147 new Covid-19 cases, raising the total number to 562,527, the National News Agency reported.Meanwhile, the death toll from the virus went up by three to 7,909, the Xinhua news agency reported.Lebanon …