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Tel Aviv, July 29 : Israel is expected to start vaccinating the country’s elderly citizens against Covid-19 with a third dose of the Pfizer jab, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Thursday.A vast majority of its Management Team of Epidemic…

Canberra, July 29 : Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales (NSW) has reached a grim new milestone, recording 239 new local Covid-19 cases on Thursday.Of those cases, the source of infection for 126 cases is under investigation, reports Xi…

Wellington, July 29 : New Zealand’s regulatory authority Medsafe on Thursday granted provisional approval of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for individuals aged 18 and above.New Zealand secured 7.6 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, enough f…

Geneva, July 29 : The World Health Organization (WHO) said that a “sharp” jump was reported in the number of the global Covid-19 deaths in the week betweek July 19-25.In a statement on Wednesday, the world body said that with over 69,000 fatalities, …

Dublin, July 29 : The number of overall confirmed coronavirus cases in Ireland has increased to 295,386 after it reported the highest single-day infections since February, according to the latest data from the country’s Department of Health.On Wednes…

Dubai, July 29 : Ronnie Screwvala has been disrupting long before ‘disruptor’ became a trendy word. As a first-generation entrepreneur, he dabbled with manufacturing toothbrushes, entered TV production, and eventually growing the business into the me…

San Francisco, July 29 : Twitter has announced to shut its offices in New York and San Francisco in response to the new guidelines issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The microblogging platform reopened the offices just …

Washington, July 29 : The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 195.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.18 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.96 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update o…

Beijing, July 29 : Nanjing, a mega-city in China with a population of more than 9.3 million, has launched the third round of all-inclusive nucleic acid testing campaign in the wake of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak, authorities said on Thursday.The third …

Berlin, July 29 : Despite a recent slowdown in Germany’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign, more than half of the country’s population are now fully vaccinated, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases said on Wednesday.German Minister of …