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South Africa has announced more than 12,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases as the total in one of the world’s worst affected countries reaches 434,200 with 6,655 deaths. South Africa makes up well over half the confirmed cases on the African continent, where experts say the virus could smoulder in areas …

Iraq registered, on Saturday, about 3000 new cases and of Covid-19, as well as about 2000 recoveries in the past 24 hours. The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said in a statement that, 15788 tests were performed today, so the total number of tests is 10377, in which the …

Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the world. The rate of cases has been increasing not …

he Ministry of Health and Environment announced the registration of (1863) cases of recovery from the Coronavirus. A statement of the ministry, which AlghdeerTV received a copy of it, said that the Ministry of Health and Environment recorded this day (1863) cases of recovery in Iraq distributed as follows: Baghdad …

On April 17, President Trump was asked by a misinformed reporter why the U.S. supported the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, which had been accused, without evidence, of engineering and possibly releasing COVID-19. The president responded that he was aware of it and would “end that grant very quickly,” …

Second coronavirus tests of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his political team who attended an EU summit this week came out negative, the government said on Friday, after earlier tests showed positive for one member of the delegation. Borissov went into quarantine after the head of his political office, …

Russia plans to resume international flights from some airports on Aug. 1, the Interfax news agency cited Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin as saying on Friday. Flights will restart from Moscow, St Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don, Mishustin said.

Dozens of protesters opposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were arrested in Israel late Thursday and early Friday as they clashed with police. Protesters have been holding demonstrations for weeks, calling for Netanyahu to resign over corruption charges and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. At least 55 people were arrested …

  Coronavirus has now infected some 15.4 million people and has killed more than 632,000. Here are the latest updates for July 23: Thursday, July 23, 2020 US cases took 16 days to go from 3 to 4 million The total number of coronavirus cases reported in the United States …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said in a statement that, 16947 tests were performed today, The newly2258 recovery cases were distributed as follows: Baghdad / Al-Rusafa 305, Baghdad / Al-Karkh 318, Medical City 128, Najaf 119, Al-Sulaymaniyah 39, Erbil 96, Duhok 8,  Karbala 90, Kirkuk 126, Diyala 75, …

Five more Victorians have died from coronavirus, as the premier appealed to young people to take the threat seriously if they want to “be able to go and have a beer”. Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed 403 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the state’s third-worst tally. The five deaths are also …

Global confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 15 million on Wednesday, reaching 15,000,424 as of 16:35 GMT, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. A total of 617,832 people worldwide have died of the disease, the data showed. The United States has suffered the most …

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have criticized Donald Trump’s leadership, in a teaser for a filmed discussion between the pair. The former president and vice president filmed a socially-distant conversation about challenges facing the US, in Obama’s office in Washington, DC earlier this month, that will be streamed on Biden’s …

The U.S. agreed to pay $1.95 billion for 100 million doses of a vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, the government’s latest step to lock up supplies to fight the pandemic. The U.S. will pay the companies when it receives the doses, following regulatory authorization or approval, according …

Covid-19 is “the Trump virus,” says US House speaker Nancy Pelosi, asserting that President Donald Trump has “recognized the mistakes he has made.” Trump has himself come up with various names for the virus, mostly in an attempt to blame China for the onset of the pandemic, calling it “the …

Iraq registered, on Wednesday, 2706 new cases and of Covid-19, as well as about 2197 recoveries and 92 fatalities in the past 24 hours. The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said in a statement that, 18416 tests were performed today, The newly recovery cases were distributed as follows: Baghdad …

The executive director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergency Program, has warned that the African continent is faced with a steep acceleration of coronavirus cases. Dr. Michael Ryan made this grim prediction during his regular press briefing and said that the African continent has reported a low number …

Global coronavirus infections surged past 15 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic gathering pace even as countries remain divided in their response to the crisis. In the United States, which has the highest number of cases in the world with 3.91 million infections, President Donald …

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Tuesday that security forces would enforce a dusk to dawn curfew from Wednesday to combat the coronavirus outbreak. But critics and the opposition say authorities want to stop anti-government protests planned for next week by activists who say government corruption has worsened economic hardships.

The Nobel Foundation, which manages the Nobel Prizes, on Tuesday, cancelled its traditional December banquet due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though the award ceremonies will still be held in “new forms”. This is the first time since 1956 that the banquet has been cancelled, according to the foundation. “The Nobel …