A World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of COVID-19 visited Wuhan’s Baishazhou seafood market, one of the city’s largest wet markets and an early focal point of the outbreak. The experts, accompanied by Chinese officials, are conducting field visits to key sites in Wuhan, including hospitals and laboratories, to gather clues on how the virus first emerged.
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Health Minister: Closure indicators are promising, country not to be opened all at once
Caretaker Public Health Minister, Hamad Hassan, deemed the current total lockdown in the country as “the second successful closure after the first lockdown last March.” “Indicators are promising in light of the decline of the proliferative index to 0.93%, which will be reflected in about two weeks on the positive rate of the tests that...
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Health Ministry: 2,631 new Coronavirus infections, 61 deaths
The Ministry of Public Health announced, on Saturday, the registration of 2,631 new cases of Coronavirus, thus raising the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 298,913. It added that 61 deaths were also recorded during the past 24 hours.
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Malaysia reports record daily rise of 5,728 coronavirus cases
Malaysia reported its biggest daily rise in coronavirus cases for the second straight day, with 5,728 new infections recorded on Saturday. The new cases took the cumulative total of infections to 209,661. The health ministry also reported 13 new deaths, raising total fatalities from the pandemic to 746. – Reuters
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Norway to start gradual easing of capital region’s lockdown on Feb 3
The Norwegian government will gradually loosen the capital region’s coronavirus lockdown, allowing for some shops and recreational activities to reopen from Feb. 3 onwards, Health Minister Bent Hoeie said on Saturday. The outbreak of a more contagious variant of the coronavirus, first identified in Britain, had prompted the introduction of stricter measures, including the closure...
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Ministry of Health: 3125 new coronavirus cases, 59 deaths
3125 new coronavirus cases and 59 deaths have been recorded in Lebanon during the past 24 hours, as indicated by the Ministry of Public Health on Friday.
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China exported more than 220 billion face masks in 2020: Government
China exported more than 220 billion face masks last year, the commerce ministry said on Friday (Jan 29), the equivalent of nearly 40 per person outside China, as demand for protective gear skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shifting billions of dollars’ worth of the coverings has become an important driver of China’s exports after COVID-19...
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Pfizer vaccine not linked to post-jab deaths: EU regulator
The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus jab has no link to reported post-vaccination deaths and no new side effects, the EU’s medicines regulator said Friday based on the first data from the vaccine’s rollout. The European Medicines Agency said it had looked at the deaths, including a number in the elderly, and “concluded that the data did not...
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Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Romania kills four
A fire killed four people at a COVID-19 hospital in Romanian capital Bucharest early on Friday and 102 other patients have been evacuated, officials said. The fire, which has since been extinguished, broke out at around 0300 GMT in one of the buildings of the Matei Bals hospital in capital Bucharest.—Reuters
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Ministry of Health: 3,497 new Coronavirus cases, 68 deaths
The Ministry of Public Health announced 3,497 new Coronavirus infections, which raises the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 293,157. 68 Coronavirus-related deaths have been registered over the past 24 hours.