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COVID-19 clouds world New Year party
by AFP bureaus - January 1, 2022 - 9:20am
The world ushered in 2022 on Friday with scaled-back celebrations due to new restrictions aimed at slowing soaring COVID-19 cases — although hope remained for a better new year.
New Year parties slashed as COVID-19 wave hammers the world
by AFP bureaus - December 31, 2021 - 8:43am
The latest variant, Omicron, while tentatively considered to cause milder illness, has pushed infection levels to record levels in recent days in the United States, Britain, France and other European countries, forcing...
Biden says Omicron 'not a cause for panic' as G7 urges action
by AFP bureaus - December 1, 2021 - 7:18am
G7 health ministers on Monday called for "urgent action" to combat the newly identified Omicron Covid-19 variant spreading across the world as US President Joe Biden said the strain is "not a cause for panic".
COVID-19 curbs reimposed in Moscow as Asia-Pacific outbreaks flare
by AFP bureaus - June 28, 2021 - 7:08pm
Outbreaks are still raging from Bangladesh and Indonesia to South America -- many fuelled by the highly contagious Delta variant that was first detected in India.
India battles raging new wave of pandemic as Europe counts 50 million cases
by AFP bureaus - April 29, 2021 - 7:26am
India's coronavirus death toll soared through 200,000 on Wednesday with a wave of new cases swamping hospitals and sending desperate families off to scour the capital for oxygen and medicine as Europe's  registered...
Vaccine doses pass one billion mark as global cases top new record
by AFP bureaus - April 25, 2021 - 12:38pm
At least 1,002,938,540 vaccine doses have been administered in 207 countries and territories, according to an AFP tally.
Pandemic hits 'critical point' as Europe deaths top one million
by AFP bureaus - April 13, 2021 - 7:59am
"We are in a critical point of the pandemic right now," said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead on Covid-19.
WHO experts say COVID-19 probably came to humans from animals
by AFP bureaus - March 30, 2021 - 7:53am
Covid-19 probably passed to humans from a bat via an intermediary animal, an international expert mission to China concluded in a report seen by AFP Monday, while all but ruling out a laboratory leak.
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