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Fiji’s Rugby Team Sang A Song From Their Hotel Balconies To Thank The Staff After Ending Their Quarantine
Members of the Fiji Rugby Team sang a tribute to hotel staff in Australia at the end of their quarantine period.
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Members of the Fiji Rugby Team sang a tribute to hotel staff in Australia at the end of their quarantine period.
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People in Manaus, which is experiencing a collapsing health system and dwindling oxygen supplies, have started receiving vaccinations against the coronavirus.
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Forced to quarantine for 14 days in hotel rooms ahead of the Australian Open, tennis players are getting creative with their training routines.
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Sama Abdul-Hadi, a prominent Palestinian DJ known as the “Palestinian Techno Queen,” has caused a controversy after she filmed a techno music performance inside a shrine in the West Bank.
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Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old Chinese citizen journalist and former lawyer, has been sentenced to four years in prison for her reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan.
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Thousands of freight trucks traveling from the UK to France have been left trapped at the border after France shut its doors to passengers and freight from the UK over fears of a new coronavirus variant detected in Britain.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said on Thursday.
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The UK has begun rolling out the world’s first mass vaccination program against COVID-19, delivering a clinically authorized and fully tested vaccine in a landmark moment in the coronavirus pandemic.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has started self-isolating again after he came in contact with a MP who later tested positive for COVID-19.
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People in Indonesia who don’t wear face masks and break coronavirus restrictions may now be forced to do push ups as punishment.
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American pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced on Monday that a COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with Germany company BioNTech may be 90% effective, based on preliminary results.
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Denmark, one of the world’s major exporters in mink furs, has begun culling all of its 17 million mink after more than 200 people became infected with a mutated form of the coronavirus that came from mink.
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More than 100 pilot whales that became stranded on a beach in Sri Lanka have been rescued and returned to sea.
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Tens of thousands of people in Taiwan held the world’s biggest pride march since the COVID-19 pandemic began on Saturday, after the country reported more than 200 days without a local transmission of COVID-19.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus. In a video shared on his social media, Johnson, 55, said that he is self-isolating at 10 Downing Street and will continue to run the country from home.