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Police to patrol Welsh roads to stop visitors from English covid hotspots

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Russell County has 154 Positive Cases of COVID-19

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Vatican City State, home of the Catholic Pope, lies within Italy's capital, Rome. The devolved nations have their own exemption lists which are similar but no...

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Ice Cube Offers Explanation For Working With The Trump Administration

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Sydney stalls on easing COVID-19 restrictions after "concerning" local infections_china

Health Minister Brad Hazzard said the state holds concerns over testing rates, which dropped to 15,802 in the previous 24 hours. The critical times are availa...

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The campaign was launched as French health authorities report a rapid increase in cases of coronavirus infections, with more and more people admitted in hospi...

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Students fined after their hot tub party was shut down in Lenton

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Police Federation of England and Wales says Welsh travel ban is 'unenforceable'

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In a statement on Instagram, SPINCO said the studio would not reopen until it was safe to do so. Public health officials are very concerned about the number o...

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Five more people died of the virus over the weekend, including two in the Fraser Health region and three in the Vancouver Coastal Health region. These are locat...

After Sputnik V, Russian Federation approves second COVID-19 vaccine - EpiVacCorona

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Donald Trump blames China for allowing COVID-19 to spread outside Beijing

Trump and Biden were supposed to hold their second debate on Thursday night but it will instead take place on October 22. The turn to a town hall format for b...

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She was discharged five days later and her symptoms "subsided entirely". She succumbed to the deadly infection two weeks later, researchers said. They therefo...

COVID Researchers Report Worrying First

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Federal Judge Grants Virginia Voter Registration Deadline Extension After Outage

The Lawyers' Committee told VPM , Richmond's local NPR affiliate, that it plans to sue the state again to secure another voter registration deadline exte...

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It is the term to describe what happens when the population becomes immune through vaccination or mass infection. He pointed out for instance that for measles...

AstraZeneca : WHO fears spike in deaths after global COVID-19 surge

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