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SINGAPORE: A team of researchers here has found a combination of antiviral and anti-inflammatory drugs that can be used to treat COVID-19 patients with mild to moderate disease. The team from the National University of Singapore…
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US: The US Coast Guard announced Thursday it had seized about $1.4 billion worth of cocaine and cannabis during several operations. "This is the largest illicit drug offload in Coast Guard history," said Commander Steve Poulin…
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US: India Representative to United Nations TS Trimurti, said that India wants develop peaceful and normal relations with Pakistan but in Absence of terrorism. In a UN statement, the Indian Ambassador to the UN informed that…
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SWITZERLAND: There were more than 4 million new COVID-19 cases reported globally in the last week, driven mostly by spikes in the Middle East and Asia. That''s according to the World Health Organization''s latest weekly report on…
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US: Daily new COVID-19 cases have climbed to a six-month high in the United States, with more than 100,000 infections reported nationwide as the Delta variant ravaged Florida and other states with lower vaccination rates. The…
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AUSTRALIA: Australian officials on Friday warned Sydney residents to brace for a surge in COVID-19 cases after the country's largest city logged record infections for the second straight day despite a weeks-long lockdown to stamp out…
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UK: Fully vaccinated people in England were one-third as likely to test positive for COVID-19, according to an ongoing survey of the population released on Wednesday. The latest findings, from a long-running study by scientists…
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CHINA: China will strive to provide 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world throughout this year and offer 100 million U.S. dollars to COVAX, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday in a written message to the first meeting of…
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The first dose of the Sinopharm COVID vaccine was administered to persons over 60 years of age in the Western Province at the 24-hour Army Vaccination Centre at the Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo yesterday.  Pictures by Rukmal…
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Kilinochchi Magistrate S. Lenin Kumar last Thursday ordered the police to ascertain whether there was a mass grave at the site where human skeletons were found with military uniforms and tools used by Army personnel in a paddy field in…
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