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More than 100,000 people in India have been tested positive for coronavirus just in the last four days, said the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday. The country recorded 28,498 new cases and 553 new deaths in the last 24 hours, said the ministry. That raises the country's total to 906,752 cases and 23,727 deaths

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US reported at least 3,323,432 cases of coronavirus and at least 135,272 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases. On Monday, Johns Hopkins reported 18,490 new cases and 67 reported deaths. The totals include cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other US territories, as well as repatriated cases

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South Africa has reintroduced a ban on alcohol sales and imposed a nighttime curfew as it looks to curtail a rapid surge in new coronavirus cases. In an address to the nation Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa also announced that masks are now mandatory in public, as the number of confirmed cases in the country exceeded 276,000. The curfew will be in effect between 9pm and 4am local time from Monday

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Qatar Airways makes it mandatory for Pakistani passengers to show a negative test result within 72 hours of their flight. The new measure will take effect on Monday, a spokesperson told Bloomberg via email. The airline operates in four Pakistani cities currently - Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar. Pakistan has confirmed more than 250,000 infections and 5,266 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University

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Florida on Sunday reported 15,299 confirmed coronavirus cases, breaking the single-day record of any U.S. state since the pandemic hit the nation, including New York at the peak of its outbreak. The surge in infections brings Florida’s total cases to 269,811, higher than the totals of several major nations with much larger populations such as Spain, Italy and France among others

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President Donald Trump has worn a mask in public for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The president was visiting the Walter Reed military hospital outside Washington, where he met wounded soldiers and health care workers. "I've never been against masks but I do believe they have a time and a place," he said as he left the White House

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India’s Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that the entire world is witnessing the success of India in handling coronavirus. His comments come as the country’s total number of COVID-19 cases inched closer to 850,000 with the biggest single-day jump of over 28,000 cases. He also praised security forces, saying that they are playing a huge role in India’s fight against the spread of coronavirus

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Microsoft Founder Bill Gates said that Covid-19 medication and future vaccines should be distributed to people who need them the most and not to “the highest bidder.” “If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where they are most needed, we’ll have a longer, more unjust deadlier pandemic,” Gates said in a remote conference

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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is not in support of the complete economic shutdown. President called for big gatherings such as weddings and wakes to be banned to stem a rise in coronavirus infections, but insisted the country's economy had to stay open. Shortly after Rouhani’s televised speech, a police official in Tehran announced the closure of all wedding and mourning venues in the capital until further notice

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A mass protest in Mali against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita descended into violence on Friday as protesters blocked main thoroughfares, attacked the parliament, and stormed the premises of a state broadcaster. One person was killed during the protest in the capital Bamako, officials said

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A diplomatic spat erupted between Malaysia and Al Jazeera over COVID-19 might affect ties between two Muslim countries – Malaysia and Qatar. The trigger for the row was Al Jazeera‘s 26-minute documentary ‘Locked up in Malaysia’s Lockdown‘, which depicted how undocumented migrant workers are being rounded-up in a military-style crackdown and detained in camps on the pretext of implementing a coronavirus-induced lockdown

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President Donald Trump said Friday that he isn’t thinking about a possible next stage of the U.S. trade deal with China, adding that the relationship between the two nations has been “severely damaged” by the pandemic. Asked if that friction meant “phase two” of the U.S.-China trade deal would no longer happen, Trump said he wasn’t even thinking about it and that he had many other things on his mind

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American e-commerce giant Wayfair that sells furniture, began trending on social media on Friday after thousands of people took to Twitter to indulge in a conspiracy theory, accusing Wayfair of child trafficking. The theory started after people noticed that the company was charging exorbitant prices for items like storage cabinets and throw pillows, and although all of the items appeared identical they had different names written on the item descriptions

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Tedros Adhanom, the director-general of the World Health Organization has condemned a "lack of leadership" in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and made an emotional plea for global unity "My friends, make no mistake: The greatest threat we face now is not the virus itself," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a speech in Geneva on Thursday. "Rather, it's the lack of leadership and solidarity at the global and national levels."

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The coronavirus outbreak across the United States continues to grow with the country reporting another record single-day spike of more than 63,200 new cases on Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Global COVID-19 cases crossed 12.4 million as more than 559,000 deaths were recorded.

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The United States reported record COVID-19 numbers yesterday with 60,565 new cases in a single day. US deaths climbed by more than 800 again, according to the tally. Florida reported a record increase of 120 deaths and California had 136 new fatalities, not far from a record of 149 set the previous day, according to the tally. Infections are increasing in 41 out of 50 states

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According to the latest news available on Barbados Government's official website, the Government could soon be introducing the 12-month 'Barbados Welcome Stamp' to allow visitors the option to work remotely from Barbados for a year at a time to help them avoid coronavirus restrictions in their home country. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley explained that the stamp concept would allow “persons to come and work from here overseas, digitally"

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The Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan has warned its citizens recently about a strain of pneumonia that appears to be more deadly in the region than Covid-19. Kazakhstan's health ministry has released a statement denying the reports, labeling them "fake news". "The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan reiterates that the information provided by the Kazakh and Chinese media does not correspond to reality," it said

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New York City is painting a Black Lives Matter mural on the street directly outside of Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan. City employees began painting a stretch of Fifth Avenue, just in front of the Trump Organization's headquarters, on Thursday morning. Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized the stark yellow mural earlier this month. The New York mayor rolled up his sleeves and painted a bit of the mural himself

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Police in Seoul says the body of the missing mayor of South Korea’s capital, has been found. They say Park Won-soon’s body was located in hills in northern Seoul early Friday, more than seven hours after they launched a massive search for him. Park’s daughter had called police on Thursday afternoon to report him missing, saying he had given her a “will-like” message before leaving home

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Coronavirus cases around the world have exceeded 12 million, according to a Reuters tally, as evidence mounts of the airborne spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million people in seven months. The US tops the list with more than 3.1 million cases as the country reported more than 58,000 new COVID-19 cases, the biggest increase ever reported by a country in a single day

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China defended the World Health Organization and criticized the U.S. decision to withdraw from the U.N. body, adding to a litany of disputes between the world's largest economies and increasing geopolitical rivals. Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said the move was “another demonstration of the U.S. pursuing unilateralism, withdrawing from groups and breaking contracts.”

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Customs officials at the international airport of India’s Southern state Kerala found 30kg of gold hidden inside bathroom fittings. A political row has broken out in India after gold was found being smuggled into the country in diplomatic baggage. The package was addressed to the United Arab Emirates' consulate in Thiruvananthapuram. The UAE has denied any knowledge of the package and said a former local employee had been arrested

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Trump officials introduced a new policy that barred international students from attending U.S. colleges that go online-only this fall, and now Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made their objections clear. They sued the U.S. government in federal court Wednesday, seeking to have the U.S. Immigration Customs And Enforcement policy reversed and declared unlawful. In the complaint, the schools condemn the agency's "arbitrary and capricious" decision

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Israel appeared to be an international model of coronavirus success for months due to early travel restrictions and sweeping closures, the Nation had contained the spread of Covid-19. But, Just weeks after reopening restaurants, malls and beaches, Israel is now seeing a 50-fold surge in new coronavirus cases. From approximately 20 new cases a day in mid-May to more than 1,000 new cases a day less than two months later

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