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Washington, Oct 8 : US President Joe Biden has urged large companies and other organisations to implement his government’s new Covid-19 vaccination mandates which have sparked concern and pushback.”These requirements work ..More people are getting va…

Ottawa, Oct 8 : Canada reported 3,783 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday afternoon, bringing the cumulative total to 1,651,233 cases with 28,141 deaths.Alberta, a province with a population of 4.4 million in the country, reported 1,254 new Covid-19 cases…

London, Oct 8 : Another 40,701 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 8,046,390, according to official figures released Thursday.It’s the first time that the UK’s daily co…

Tehran, Oct 7 : The Iranian Health Ministry reported 11,625 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, taking the country’s total infections to 5,674,083.According to an official briefing published by Iran’s state TV, the pandemic has claimed 122,012 lives in t…

Addis Ababa, Oct 7 : The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Africa reached 8,363,382 as of Thursday afternoon, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African…

London, Oct 7 : Tanzania-born UK-based post-colonialist novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose oeuvre mainly deals with the physical and mental disruptions faced by refugees, was on Thursday conferred the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021.Announcing the …

Seoul, Oct 7 : Video streaming giant Netflix has announced it will edit several scenes in “Squid Game” showing a phone number, following the revelation that the number actually belongs to a real person here who has been bombarded with messages and ph…

Washington, Oct 7 : The US could be at risk for a severe flu season this year, warned the experts at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention influenza (CDC).CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky said that it is because the US population may now have r…

Washington, Oct 7 : The White House has announced investment worth (Dollar) 1 billion worth for rapid, at-home coronavirus tests to address ongoing shortages.The move will quadruple the number of tests available to Americans by December, Jeff Zients…

Stockholm, Oct 7 : Sweden has stopped administering the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine Spikevax to people under 30 years of age due to a suspected connection to side effects.In a statement, the Swedish Public Health Agency referred to a preliminary analysi…