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China Limits Travel in Most Populous Province over Covid-19 Cases

Chinese authorities imposed fresh travel limits, cancelled flights and tested thousands of residents in Guangdong Monday after the Indian variant of the coronavirus was reported in the country's most populous province.

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Global Warming Blamed for 1 in 3 Heat-Related Deaths

More than a third of summer heat-related fatalities are due to climate change, researchers said Monday, warning of even higher death tolls as global temperatures climb.

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Seeking a Pill to Cure Covid: Drugmakers Eye Alternative to Vaccines

Prevention is better than cure -- but when it comes to Covid, what happens when people can't get the vaccine, don't want it, or they're immune suppressed and it fails to stop infection?

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Hunger Stalks India's Poor in Pandemic Double Blow

Rasheeda Jaleel lives in fear that she may not be able to feed her seven children as millions of Indian families are forced into poverty by a devastating new coronavirus wave.

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Lebanon Vaccinates over 10,000 in Day-Long 'Marathon'

Lebanon vaccinated more than 10,000 people on Saturday as part of a day-long vaccine "marathon" organized by the health ministry to ramp up inoculation rates in the crisis-hit country.

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Neighborhood in South China under Lockdown after Fresh Virus Outbreak

A neighborhood in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has been locked down as officials rush to quell an uptick in cases in the area.

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WHO Says Covid Origins Search 'Being Poisoned by Politics'

The World Health Organization warned Friday that efforts to uncover the Covid-19 pandemic's origins were being hampered by politics, insisting scientists needed space to work on solving the mystery.

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China Rails at 'Dark History' of U.S. Intelligence as Biden Orders Virus Probe

China hit out at the "dark history" of the U.S. intelligence community Thursday, after President Joe Biden ordered a probe into the Covid-19 origins as the lab-leak theory rebounds and strains relations between the two countries. 

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Top Paris Theater Reopens as Covid Occupy Movement Ends

French actors, stage technicians and other members of the performing arts ended a more-than-two-month occupation of the famous Odeon theatre in Paris on Sunday, allowing the show to go on after this week's easing of Covid-19 curbs.

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Germany to Give 30 Million Vaccine Doses to Poorer Nations

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that Berlin would donate 30 million coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer countries this year as part of EU efforts to alleviate the pandemic worldwide.

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