Covid-19: US records deadliest week since pandemic started with 17,000 deaths

 US death toll from coronavirus topped 300,000 on Monday NEW YORK, Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States lost more than 17,000 people to COVID-19 last week, the largest number since the beginning of the global pandemic, with North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa reporting the most deaths per capita…

Covid-19: Teachers should be among first for vaccination – UNESCO

PARIS, Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United Nations agency for education, UNESCO, called on governments to give teachers priority access to the new Covid-19 vaccines and be treated like “frontline” workers. The call came as the United States, the country worst hit by the virus, kickstarted the biggest vaccination drive…

Covid-19: Canada announces new aid package for developing nations, UN agencies

OTTAWA, Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada announced a Can$458 million aid package to help developing countries fight the coronavirus pandemic. Of that amount, Can$230 million will go to the UN children’s agency UNICEF to buy approximately three million treatments based on new therapeutic antibodies, once clinical trials are complete and…

Solar eclipse plunges southern Chile, Argentina into darkness

PUCON (Chile), Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Thousands of people turned their heads to the sky to watch a solar eclipse that lasted around two minutes on Monday as southern Chile and Argentina were plunged into darkness. Heavy rain had threatened to prevent star gazers in Chile from seeing the eclipse…

Moscow condemns US sanctions on Turkey over Russian missile purchases

MOSCOW, Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned US sanctions against Turkey over the purchase of Russia’s S-400 air defence missiles as “illegitimate”. “This is, of course, another manifestation of an arrogant attitude towards international law, a manifestation of illegitimate, unilateral coercive measures that the United States…

Mexico calls for cooperation between LatAm, EU in response to COVID-19

MEXICO CITY, Dec 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — Mexico, the president pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), called for cooperation between the region and the European Union (EU) to mitigate economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard, speaking on…

Almost 2 bln people depend on health care facilities without basic water services: WHO, UNICEF

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — Around 1.8 billion people are at heightened risk of COVID-19 and other diseases because they use or work in health care facilities without basic water services, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said. The report – Global progress…

Update: Biden says Trump ‘refused to respect the will of the people’

WILMINGTON (Delaware, US), Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President-elect Joe Biden tore into Donald Trump with his strongest criticism since the election, saying the Republican had defied the constitution and the “will of the people” in not accepting the results. “It’s a position so extreme we’ve never seen it before. A…

US removes Sudan from ‘state sponsors of terrorism’ list

Sudan’s removal is effective Dec 14, 2020 KHARTOUM, Dec 15 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum said that Sudan had been removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, a move that could help the African country get international loans to revive its battered economy and end…

Covid-19: Nurse gets first shot as US begins vaccinations

NEW YORK, Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States kicked off a mass vaccination drive Monday hoping to turn the tide on the world’s biggest coronavirus outbreak, as the country’s death toll neared a staggering 300,000. A nurse in New York became the first person in America to receive the…
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