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Brussels, April 21 : The European Commission together with several partners on Monday launched a European COVID-19 Data Platform to enable the rapid collection and sharing of available research data i ...
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United Nations, April 21 : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned against a retreat from climate action at a time when the world is preoccupied with the coronavirus. "Currently all eye ...
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United Nations, April 21 : UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi have called for support for displaced children amid the ra ...
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Colombo, April 21 : Sri Lanka's Elections Commission has announced it would conduct the country's parliamentary polls on June 20. The polls were initially planned to be held on April 25 but were ...
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Washington, April 21 : The global COVID-19 death toll has topped 170,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday morning, a total of 170,324 people have died of the disease, wh ...
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New York, April 21 : New York state, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, has launched a large-scale COVID-19 antibody testing in an effort to find out how much of its population has b ...
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Sydney, April 21 : The coronavirus-hit cruise ship, Ruby Princess, is scheduled to leave Australia's waters this week, a spokesperson for New South Wales (NSW) police said on Tuesday. The Ruby P ...
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Geneva, April 21 : Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned that "the worst is yet ahead of us" in the coronavirus pandemic that has infected million ...
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Singapore, April 21 : Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Tuesday that the partial lockdown imposed in the city-state to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus has been extended un ...
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Hong Kong, April 20 : Hong Kong recorded no new coronavirus infections on Monday for the first time in nearly two months, although risks of imported cases remained. Because of the lack of cases, ...
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