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New York: While COVID-19 has wiped out important development gains in mere months, with extreme poverty rising for the first time in decades, the pandemic could spark the transformations needed to achieve stronger social protection systems, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday. more
US healthcare workers, nursing home residents to get first shots of COVID-19 vaccine: CDC

Washington/Sputnik: A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee voted to give healthcare workers and nursing home residents the first of the COVID-19 vaccines once the ...

Some 10,000 new COVID-19-related deaths reported in US within week: Johns Hopkins

Washington/Sputnik: The total number of deaths related to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the United States has exceeded 270,000, the latest data from the Johns Hopkins Univer ...

New COVID-19 infections fall globally for first time since September; WHO chief urges ‘extreme caution

New York: Last week saw the first global decline in newly reported cases of COVID-19 since September, the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, advising that the ...

COVID-19 threatens global progress against malaria, warns UN health agency

New York: Gaps in life-saving interventions are undermining efforts to curb malaria, amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic could set back the fight against the disease even further, th ...

Pakistan again records Polio cases

Quetta: Pakistan has once again reported polio cases as the new instance was reported from  Balochistan region of the country, media reports said.

Bangladesh: 35 people succumb to Covid-19; highest cases recorded in 12 weeks

Dhaka: The death toll from the coronavirus has risen to 6,644 in the country in the last 24 hours, with another 35 deaths.

Bangladesh registers 26 more dengue cases

Dhaka: In the last 24 hours, 26 more patients have been admitted to the hospital with dengue fever. Among them, 21 were admitted to hospitals in the capital and five to divisional hospita ...

Over 10,500 Turkeys to be culled in Northern England due to bird flu outbreak

Moscow/Sputnik: More than 10,500 turkeys will be culled in England's county of North Yorkshire, as the outbreak of the H5N5 bird flu has been detected near the town of Northallerton, ...

Bangladesh: Covid-19 death toll touches 6,580 as another 36 die in a day

Dhaka: In the last 24 hours, 36 more people have died due to coronavirus in the country. A total of 6,580 people have died so far in the country.