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Rabat, Feb 18 : Morocco’s Covid-19 tally rose to 479,579 on Wednesday as 508 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours.According to a statement by the Ministry of Health, the death toll mounted to 8,517 as 13 Covid-19 patients died in the la…

Ulan Bator, Feb 18 : Mongolia registered 49 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing its national count to 2,493, the National Center for Communicable Diseases said on Thursday.The country also recorded one more Covid-19-related death on Wed…

Washington, Feb 18 : Over 3 million children in the US have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to a latest report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association.A total of 3,03…

Beijing, Feb 18 : China’s Hubei Province reported one confirmed Covid-19 case and one asymptomatic carrier, both imported from Pakistan, on Wednesday, the provincial health commission said on Thursday.The patient, who arrived at Wuhan Tianhe Internat…

Nairobi, Feb 18 : A seamless roll-out of Covid-19 vaccine in Africa hinges on improving the knowledge of the continent’s frontline health care workers in critical areas like storage, supply chains management and effective communication to the public,…

Brussels, Feb 18 : The European Union (EU) has stepped up its efforts to detect and fight Covid-19 variants by bringing together various stakeholders to develop new and adapted vaccines.A new project called “HERA Incubator” will gather researchers, b…

Hong Kong, Feb 18 : The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Thursday gave nod to the emergency use of the inactivated vaccine produced by Sinovac Biotech, two days after a panel of experts recommended the vaccine to the auth…

Dakar, Feb 18 : Senegal on Wednesday night received the first batch of China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine.Senegalese President Macky Sall, First Lady Marieme Faye Sall, senior government officials, Chinese Ambassador to Senegal Xiao Han and represent…

Warsaw, Feb 18 : The prime ministers of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia met in the southern Polish city of Krakow to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic and to mark the 30th anniversary of the Visegrad Group (V4) cooperation framework.The …

Bogota, Feb 18 : Colombia launched a mass vaccination campaign against the Covid-19 pandemic, applying the first dose to a nurse working in an intensive care unit (ICU).Colombian President Ivan Duque, Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez and Minister o…