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With virus surge, US to keep travel restrictions for now

11:46 pm July 26, 2021

Washington: he United States will keep existing COVID-19 travel restrictions on international travel in place for now due to concerns about the surging infection rate because of the delta variant, according to a White House official. President Joe Biden earlier this month said that his administration was “in the process” of considering how soon the U.S. could lift the ban on European travel […]

Biden move to share vaccine designed to spread US influence

11:30 pm May 8, 2021

Washington: It won’t speed the manufacture of vaccines. It enraged the developers who delivered lifesaving doses in record time. But President Joe Biden’s decision to support waiving intellectual property rights for coronavirus shots had a broader purpose: to broadcast his administration’s commitment to global leadership. More than a month of internal debate led up to […]

Variants-wary Germany turns back 5,000 at border

11:03 pm February 15, 2021

Berlin : German authorities say police have turned back some 5,000 people at the country’s borders with the Czech Republic and Austria’s Tyrol region since tight controls were introduced on Sunday. Germany imposed checks to slow the spread of the British coronavirus variant from the Czech Republic and the South African variant from Tyrol. It is restricting entry to German citizens and residents, truck drivers, transport and […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

German governor: Extend lockdown through January

5:15 pm January 3, 2021

Berlin : A prominent German state governor is calling for the country’s lockdown to be extended until the end of January and says there should be no rushed reopening of schools. Germany’s current lockdown took effect on December 16 after a partial shutdown that started at the beginning of November failed to reduce new coronavirus […]

Germany reports more than 1,000 deaths in a day

3:34 pm December 30, 2020

Berlin: German authorities have reported more than 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths in one day for the first time since the pandemic began. The national disease control center, the Robert Koch Institute, said Wednesday that 1,129 deaths were reported over the past 24 hours. That exceeds the previous record set a week ago of 962 and brings […]

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