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Scientists called for urgent action to improve public trust in immunisation as research suggested sizeable minorities in some nations may be reluctant to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
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By AFP
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India is on course to top the world in coronavirus cases, but from Maharashtra's whirring factories to Kolkata's thronging markets, people are back at work -- and eager to forget the pandemic for festival season.
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By AFP
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At Severo Ochoa hospital in a Madrid suburb badly-hit during the pandemic's first wave, the intensive care unit is once again full and exhausted medics dread a repeat of the same "horror".
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By AFP
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At Severo Ochoa hospital in a Madrid suburb badly-hit during the pandemic's first wave, the intensive care unit is once again full and exhausted medics dread a repeat of the same "horror".
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By AFP
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At Severo Ochoa hospital in a Madrid suburb badly-hit during the pandemic's first wave, the intensive care unit is once again full and exhausted medics dread a repeat of the same "horror".
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By AFP
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Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.
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By AFP
Dublin -
Ireland will be the first EU country to return to coronavirus lockdown, prime minister Micheal Martin said Monday, issuing a nationwide "stay at home" order but insisting schools will stay open.
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London -
Wales will impose a full "firebreak" lockdown for two weeks from Friday to try to reduce a soaring number of new coronavirus cases, First Minister Mark Drakeford said on Monday.
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Jerusalem -
Long-time chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat was in "critical" condition and in a medically induced coma on Monday, said the Israeli hospital in Jerusalem treating him for coronavirus complications.
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By AFP
Dublin -
A number of European countries took urgent new measures on Monday to combat a second wave of coronavirus infections, as the World Health Organization blamed the surge in worldwide cases -- now more than 40 million -- on countries' failure to quarantine...
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By AFP
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Czech police said they used tear gas and water cannons at a violent rally held Sunday in Prague against government measures introduced to stem the coronavirus spread.
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Europe passed the milestone of 250,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Sunday as Israel and Australia's second-largest city of Melbourne began to gradually ease their strict lockdowns.
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By AFP
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President Donald Trump lashed out at "stupid" critics from within his own party and called for unity on Sunday after growing Republican criticism and warnings of a "bloodbath" in the November 3 election.
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Paris -
Shortly before the clock struck 9 pm on Saturday, restaurant shutters in Paris came down and people dashed home to beat a strict new curfew to battle the coronavirus outbreak.
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Bejing -
China has passed a new law to improve its handling of disease outbreaks -- including protecting whistleblowers -- following a cascade of criticism over its coronavirus response and accusations of an early cover-up.
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Melbourne -
Lockdown restrictions in Australia's second-biggest city were eased slightly Sunday following a steady decline in new coronavirus cases, but officials stopped short of ending a controversial "stay-at-home" rule.
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By AFP
Madrid -
An outspoken hardliner who once wrote tweets for a predecessor's pooch, Madrid regional leader Isabel Diaz Ayuso has become the attack dog of the right to take on Spain's leftwing federal government.
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By AFP
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Airlines face a long, hard winter after a much hoped for rebound from the coronavirus crisis failed to materialise, prompting savage cost cutting programmes and fresh calls for government support. "We are in a race against time.
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By AFP
Wellington -
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed Sunday to "crack on" with delivering her vision following a landslide election victory, after a string of disasters frustrated reform in her first term.
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By AFP
Istanbul -
Asmali Sahne, an independent theatre in Istanbul, applied for desperately needed state funds as it tries to survive the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but its request was turned down.
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By AFP
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Coronavirus cases in the United States topped eight million Friday as the world saw the highest-ever number reported in a single day, while European countries tightened measures to control the pandemic's spread.
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By AFP
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Should Brussels return to virtual EU summits? The debate was relaunched this week after Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin left an EU leaders meeting largely devoted to Brexit to go into self-isolation.
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By AFP
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A Frenchman who planned to refuse all food and medicine in his fight to secure right-to-die laws for terminally ill patients has called off his strike after being hospitalised, his supporters said Friday.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Australians living under lockdown in the southeast of the country are eyeing a return of freedoms this weekend as coronavirus numbers reached a four-month low Friday.
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By AFP
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Rare pink dolphins are returning to the waters between Hong Kong and Macau after the coronavirus pandemic halted ferries, but scientists remain deeply concerned about their long-term survival in one of the world's busiest sea lanes.
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By AFP
Denmark -
On Denmark's rugged western coast, far from paradise islands in the tropics, "Cold Hawaii" has become the place to be for surfers stranded by travel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic.
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By AFP
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Walking into a dusty paddock, a young nurse is quickly surrounded by a group of donkeys gently nudging her for attention as she strokes their soft noses and feeds them carrots.
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By AFP
Salisbury -
Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday made her first public visit outside a royal residence since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, visiting a top secret research lab but appearing without a face mask.
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By AFP
Geneva -
The coronavirus pandemic has not deterred the Swiss from sending yodels echoing across their mountain valleys, but a concert attended by 600 people is believed to have made one canton a European virus hotspot.
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By AFP
Copenhagen -
European countries have unveiled tough new measures to try to curb a surge in coronavirus infections which the World Health Organization warned Thursday is of "great concern".
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Graphic from the final briefing held this year on the ACHE Act. Earth Institute
James Tracy of Community Housing Partnership speaks to those assembled at press conference at City Hall for the Health Care Services Masterplan legislation, sponsored by SF Supervisor David Campos at 12 Noon on Nov. 1, 2010
Aedes Aegypti mosquito From the USDA website
Seniors occupy Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne's Office to protest changes to the seniors drug plan. Doug Brinkman
Indian woman with child Emilio Cordón Fernández
The Sunnyside Wellness Centre Waterloo Social Services
15m protesters in Málaga, Spain against cuts to the social health system Carlos Matesanz
Protest in Malaga, Spain on April 15, 2012 Alfredo P. Chomón
In response to the growing rate of obesity, schools like St. Andrew's College are taking a more proactive approach to diet, nutrition, and physical exercise. St. Andrew's College
Google now displays quick information on common medical symptoms Google
The Aedes aegypti - or yellow fever - mosquito Wikicommons
PET scans showing the differances between a normal older adult's brain and the brain of an older adult afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. — On photo (left to right): PET scan of normal brain, PET scan of Alzheimer’s disease brain. National Institutes of Health
Variety of healthy food on the street market in Vila Madalena, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Protest in Malaga, Spain on April 15, 2012 Alfredo P. Chomón
Screen dump from the Merck website showing the words "Be well" in their logo. Merck PR
Life expectancy in New Orleans Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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"We are the Champions": Zukunftskongress Gesundheitswirtschaft des Bundesministeriums für Gesundheit in Berlin
Rabies can affect all mammals, but is seen most often in raccoons, skunks, foxes, and bats. It is less common in deer. Ibagli
Could inhalers be adapted for a wide range of medicines in the future? NIAID (CC BY 2.0)
The survey findings demonstrate the cross-cutting links between an employer’s support of
workplace-wellness initiatives and the likelihood that an employer will take steps towards a
healthy lifestyle. Chrissy Wainright
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