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The UN health agency’s director general told officials gathered in Geneva for the opening of the WHO’s annual meeting that “declining testing and sequencing means we are blinding ourselves to the evolution of the virus.” He also noted that almost one billion people still haven’t been vaccinated. CBC | World News
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Shanghai detects new COVID-19 cases outside quarantined areas
Shanghai announced its first new COVID-19 cases outside quarantined areas in five days on Friday and imposed stricter curbs in two districts, but did not signal any change to the planned end of a city-wide lockdown on June 1. CBC | World News
Read More »North Korea’s suspected COVID-19 caseload nears 2-million mark
North Korea on Thursday reported 262,270 more cases of people with suspected symptoms of COVID-19 as its pandemic caseload neared two million â a week after the country acknowledged the outbreak and scrambled to slow infections in its unvaccinated population CBC | World News
Read More »Eric Clapton cancels tour shows due to COVID-19 after branding vaccines ‘mass hypnosis’
ERIC CLAPTON has been forced to cancel all of his shows in the coming week following a diagnosis of COVID-19. The star, who previously claimed to get the vaccine was succumbing to a form of “hypnosis”, is said to have found the situation “very frustrating”. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
Read More »North Korea reports 21 new fever deaths amid country’s 1st COVID-19 outbreak
North Korea says 21 people died and 174,440 people were newly found with fever symptoms on Friday alone as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population. CBC | World News
Read More »A day after admitting COVID-19 outbreak, North Korea says nearly 190,000 people in quarantine
North Korea said Friday six people died and nearly 190,000 are under quarantine following a rapid spread of fever across the country in recent weeks, a day after it first acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak in a largely unvaccinated population. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. surpasses 1 million COVID-19 deaths: A look at the numbers
Reported COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have surpassed one million, according to tracking from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. CBC | World News
Read More »North Korea confirms a COVID-19 case for 1st time during pandemic
North Korea announced its first coronavirus infection more than two years into the pandemic Thursday as leader Kim Jong-un called for raising COVID-19 preventive measures to maximum levels. CBC | World News
Read More »WHO offers rare criticism for China’s steadfast and strict COVID-19 measures
The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday China’s zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable given what is known of the disease, in rare public comments by the United Nations agency on a government’s handling of the virus. CBC | World News
Read More »Beijing shuts subway stations to stem COVID-19 spread
Beijing on Wednesday closed 60 subway stations â more than 10 per cent of the stations in the city’s vast system â as an additional measure against the spread of the novel coronavirus. CBC | World News
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