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08.05.2023 / 20:11

Delta flight from Detroit diverted due to 'unruly' passenger

Delta Air Lines Airbus A330neo or A330-900 aircraft with neo engine option of the European plane manufacturer, as seen departing from Amsterdam Schiphol AMS EHAM International airport from Polderbaan runway and flying in the blue sky. (Photo by Nicol BOSTON (AP) - A Delta Air Lines flight between Detroit and Amsterdam was diverted to Boston due to an unruly passenger on board, the airline says.Delta Flight 134 diverted to Boston Logan International Airport just before 9 p.m.

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22 snakes, 1 chameleon found in check-in baggage by Indian customs officials

Indian customs intercepted baggage containing dozens of animals, including snakes and a chameleon.The Indian Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs announced the incident in a social media post on Sunday."Indian Customs : Guardians of wildlife!" the agency wrote in a post detailing the interception.US BORDER AUTHORITIES REPORT INCREASE IN EGG SMUGGLING ATTEMPTS AS POULTRY PRICES SOAR AMID INFLATIONCustoms confiscated 22 snakes and a chameleon from a checked bag at an airport in Chennai.The snakes were of various species and arrived on a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.FRANCE'S GUARDIANS OF CHAMPAGNE DESTROY 2,300 CANS OF MILLER HIGH LIFE: 'THE CHAMPAGNE OF BEERS'The animals were seized from the traveler under the 1972 Wildlife Protection Act.The Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs released video of the incident, which shows the snakes contained in plastic tubs and bins.GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HEREFootage from the interception shows Indian customs officials pulling the snakes out of their containers and handling them on the floor of the airport.Read more of this story from FOX Business.

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Elderly couple dies after eating poisonous pufferfish for lunch

An elderly couple has died after eating pufferfish meat in Malaysia — a seafood delicacy that can carry a deadly poison if not prepared correctly.

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Attempt to smuggle 206 live Star Tortoises to Malaysia stopped by Sri Lanka Customs at BIA

COLOMBO (News 1st) – A Custom official said that 206 Live star tortoises were being smuggled out of Sri Lanka to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.The star tortoises were seized by Sri Lanka Custom's Biodiversity, Cultural and National Heritage Protection Division on Saturday(11) at the BIA based on intelligence.The tortoises were placed inside six boxes labeled "Dried Sea Foods" after being placed inside cloth sacks.

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President at D. A. Rajapaksa commemoration

COLOMBO (News 1st) – A special commemoration speech to mark the 55th death anniversary of the late D.A. Rajapaksa was held yesterday (24) under the leadership of President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Nawarangahala in Colombo.This ceremony was organised by the Rajapakse Memorial Educational, Cultural and Social Services Foundation, and was presided over by the Venerable Anunayake of the Sri Lanka Ramanya Maha Nikaya, Head of the Minuwangoda Patthaduvana Bhikshu Training Institute Venerable Nadagamuwe Vijaya Maitri Thero.Professor Samitha Hettige of the University of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia delivered the keynote address on “The Belt – Road: Lessons for Sustainable Development”.The book containing the Commemoration speech was also presented to the President.Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena laid a floral tribute at the statue of the Late D.

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Malaysian opposition leader Anwar appointed Prime Minister

(Reuters) – Malaysia's king appointed long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim as prime minister on Thursday and he will be sworn in at 5 p.m., ending five days of unprecedented post-election crisis after inconclusive polls.Anwar's appointment caps a three-decade-long political journey from a protege of veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad to a prisoner convicted of sodomy to opposition leader and, finally, prime minister.A general election on Saturday ended in an unprecedented hung parliament with neither of the two main alliances, one led by Anwar and the other by ex-premier Muhyiddin Yassin, immediately able to secure enough seats in parliament to form a government.The 75-year-old Anwar has time and again been denied the premiership despite getting within striking distance over the years: he was deputy prime minister in the 1990s and the official prime minister-in-waiting in 2018.In between, he spent nearly a decade in jail for sodomy and corruption in what he says were politically motivated charges aimed at ending his career.The uncertainty over the election threatened to prolong political instability in the Southeast Asian country, which has had three prime ministers in as many years, and risks delaying policy decisions needed to foster economic recovery.Anwar leads a multi-ethnic coalition of parties with progressive leanings while Muhyiddin's alliance reflects more conservative, ethnic Malay, Muslim views.Anwar's coalition, known as Pakatan Harapan, won the most seats in Saturday's vote with 82, while Muhyiddin's Perikatan Nasional bloc won 73.

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Sri Lanka to host U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2024

ICC – Top emerging talent will be heading to Sri Lanka in 2024 for the U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup, as the ICC Board announced host countries for U19 events between 2024 and 2027.Zimbabwe and Namibia, Malaysia and Thailand, and Bangladesh and Nepal are also set to host ICC U19 events between 2024 and 2027, after the ICC Board approved the plans.The ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2024 will be hosted by Sri Lanka while the 2026 edition will be staged in Zimbabwe and Namibia. The ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2025 will be held in Malaysia and Thailand, and the 2027 event will be jointly hosted by Bangladesh and Nepal.Cricket World Cup qualification pathwaysThe qualification pathway for the 14-team ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2027 was also confirmed with 10 teams set to gain automatic qualification. These 10 teams will include South Africa and Zimbabwe as Full Member hosts, and the next eight highest-ranked teams on the ICC MRF Tyres ODI Rankings on a date to be confirmed. The remaining four teams will qualify through the ICC CWC Global Qualifier series.The qualification pathway for the 10-team ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 was also approved. Eight teams will automatically qualify for the event, including the top three teams from each group at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023, the host Bangladesh (if not in the top three of Group 1) and the next highest ranked teams on the MRF Tyres ICC T20I Rankings on 27 February 2023.

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Urea fertilizer shipment due next week

COLOMBO (News 1st) – The National Fertilizer Office says that a cargo vessel carrying 22,000 MT of fertilizer is scheduled to arrive in the country from Malaysia next week.The Director of the National Fertilizer Office Chandana Lokuge says that the relevant fertilizer will be used for the maha season cultivationEarlier, 13,000 MT of Urea fertilizer was brought to Sri Lanka and the relevant fertilizer was distributed to farmers across the country.

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Malaysia donates medicine stocks to Sri Lanka

COLOMBO (News 1st) – Based on the request made by the Ministry of Health of Sri Lanka to assist in acquiring medical supplies for Sri Lanka, the High Commission of Sri Lanka in Kuala Lumpur reached out to the Government of Malaysia for their support. The Government of Malaysia has extended a goodwill gesture by donating a consignment of urgently required medical supplies to Sri Lanka.At a symbolic handing-over ceremony held at the Ministry of Health of Malaysia on 31 October 2022, Minister of Health of Malaysia, Khairy Jamaluddin symbolically handed over the donation which is valued at USD 63,100/- to the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in Malaysia, Air Chief Marshal (Rtd) Sumangala Dias.Sri Lanka’s National carrier, Sri Lankan Airlines graciously agreed to airlift the donation free of charge and the consignment was dispatched by Flight UL 319 which departed from Kuala Lumpur recently to Colombo.

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Australian Navy warships dock in Colombo for Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2022

COLOMBO (News 1st) – Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy, namely; HMAS Adelaide and HMAS Anzac which are engaged in Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2022 arrived at the Port of Colombo this morning (25th October 2022). On their arrival, the visiting ships were welcomed by the Sri Lanka Navy in accordance with naval tradition.Indo-Pacific Endeavour (IPE) began in 2017 as an activity coordinated by the Australian Defence Force to strengthen Australia’s engagement and partnerships with regional security forces. Thus, this year’s IPE will return to Southeast and South Asia, consolidating partnerships with 14 countries such as Timor-Leste, Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Maldives and India.Commodore Mal Wise of Royal Australian Navy is the Commander Joint Task Force for Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2022.The visiting ship HMAS Adelaide which is a 230m-long Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) is commanded by Captain SJ Watters.

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UNHRC: Resolution on Sri Lanka adopted – Voting Results

COLOMBO (News 1st) – The Core Group resolution on Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council was adopted on Thursday (6).Votes In Favor: 20 Votes Against: 07 Abstentions: 20 Sri Lanka has categorically rejected the resolution. #lka #SriLanka #SLnews #News1st #UNHRC #HumanRights Voted in Favor:1. Argentina 2.

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Malaysia plans to recruit 10,000 Sri Lankan workers

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Cabinet has agreed to recruit 10,000 workers from Sri Lanka after taking into account the state of the country which has been hit by an economic crisis, Malaysian Human Resources Minister M Saravanan said.According to Minister for Human Resources Datuk Seri M.

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Fugitive known as 'Fat Leonard' in massive Navy bribery scheme caught in Venezuela

An undated image shows Leonard Glenn Francis. (Credit: U.S. Marshals Service) SAN DIEGO - A defense contractor nicknamed "Fat Leonard" who orchestrated one of the largest bribery scandals in U.S.

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'Just one breath': World's first inhaled Covid vaccine approved | 10 points

CanSino’s Ad5-nCoV for emergency use as a booster dose, China has become the first country to approve a needle-free, inhaled version of a Covid-19 vaccine, said an official statement quoted by news agency Bloomberg. The inhaled Covid-19 vaccine, made by Tianjin-based CanSino Biologics Inc, has pushed the company's shares up by 14.5% on Monday morning in Hong Kong, the organization said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange yesterday. The vaccine, which had undergone human testing in March 2020, is a new version of CanSino's one-shot Covid drug.

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COVID-19 survivors still at higher risk of neurologic disorders 2 years later

Rates of "brain fog," dementia, psychotic disorders, and epilepsy or seizures remained elevated 2 years after COVID-19 infection, according to a study of nearly 1.3 million adults and children in the United States, Australia, Europe, and Asia.

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News Scan for Aug 09, 2022

In the first known estimate of the SARS-CoV spillover risk from bats to people, researchers who studied bat populations in South East Asia and interactions with humans estimate that about 66,280 people a year are infected each year. The team, based at EcoHealth Alliance, published their findings today in Nature Communications. The group also included two scientists from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology.To make their prediction model, they examined data on 26 bat species with known SARS-CoV seq

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Nancy Pelosi arrives in Taiwan as China issues warning

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday night, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the self-ruled island that is claimed by China in 25 years.Pelosi’s visit has triggered increased tensions between China and the United States.

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Nancy Pelosi expected to visit Taiwan, escalating tensions with China

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (L) meets Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong on Aug. 1 2022 in Singapore.

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Plannig international travel? 2 tourist destinations are recently added to ‘high’ COVID risk list

CNN report pointed out, In a weekly update with little movement overall, the move to Level 3 is a big jump up for Kuwait, which had been at Level 1. The Dominican Republic moved up from Level 2. Level 3, or "high," is now the top rung in terms of risk level and applies to places that have had more than 100 cases per 100,000 residents in the past 28 days.

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Covid-19 update: India logs 1,421 fresh Covid cases, 149 deaths in last 24 hours

Covid-19 cases earlier this week, India on Sunday recorded decline in cases once again, logging 1,421 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the updated Union Health Ministry data. Additionally, a total of 149 Covid-19 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, the data further stated. The country's active Covid-19 cases stood at 16,187 on Sunday, the Health Ministry data revealed.

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4 Chinese badminton players found guilty of not playing seriously

Li Jun Hui(right) and Liu Yu Chen of Team China react as they compete during a match at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 27, 2021. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Four Chinese badminton players are on probation for two years for failing to try their best to win a doubles match in 2018.The incident happened in the Fuzhou Open quarterfinals in China in November 2018.Then world-ranked No.

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Malaysia will reopen borders on April 1 after two years

A view of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from the Petronas Twin Towers. (Photo from CIA World Factbook) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia will reopen its borders on April 1 after two years and lift remaining coronavirus restrictions on businesses as it moves to restore normal life, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob announced Tuesday.

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Indonesia, Malaysia to further ease Covid curbs for foreign visitors

Indonesia is considering a quarantine waiver for foreign visitors to its holiday island of Bali from next week, officials said on Saturday, while neighbour Malaysia announced the removal of curbs on travellers from Thailand and Cambodia.

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Drexel squash star Bushma plays on for family in Ukraine

PHILADELPHIA - Alina Bushma prepared for perhaps the biggest match of her squash career at Drexel when her mother texted her a snapshot from her day in Ukraine. Inna Bushma wanted to show her daughter the camouflage nets she made as a volunteer helping Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces."Looks like grass," Alina Bushma said, laughing.Bushma much preferred the photos her parents sent earlier in the week -- champagne for a toast for their daughter who helped lead Drexel to a runner-up finish in the Collegiate Squash Championships."I’m just a girl from Ukraine where squash is not even that popular," she said Friday.The 21-year-old Bushma scored the winning point last Saturday that sent the Dragons into the CSA championship match, where they lost to Harvard.

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Ivermectin does not prevent severe COVID-19 illness, study finds

ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug, does not prevent severe COVID-19 symptoms.The study was published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine Friday.For the study, Malaysian researchers enrolled 490 patients with mild to moderate illness at 20 hospitals and a COVID-19 quarantine center in Malaysia.

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Ivermectin futile for mild to moderate COVID-19, study finds

Early treatment with the antiparasitic drug ivermectin does not lower the risk of severe disease when given to patients with mild to moderate COVID-19, according to a study today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Anti-parasite drug Ivermectin cannot prevent severe Covid-19 cases: Study

ivermectin did not prevent patients with Covid-19 from becoming severely ill, a study by Malaysian researchers has revealed.

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Whisky expert scared of losing smell to Covid won't leave the house

whisky expert has been living in self-imposed lockdown out of fear of losing his sense of smell if he caught Covid-19.Blair Bowman went into his own 'lockdown' a couple of weeks before it was imposed in March 2020.The expert, 31, previously travelled the world including Malaysia, Greece, Norway, Turkey and Spain, for the exciting role which included business dinners and lunches.But for nearly two years Blair and his partner have lived in a 'bubble' in their home in Edinburgh, only leaving their home for walks and trips to pick up grocery shopping via a click and collect service. One of the symptoms associated with coronavirus has been patients losing their senses of smell and taste.

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India puts up good show in EM league table as Asian peers fight covid-19

₹1 trillion for the second straight month. The gains helped foreign capital find its way back into India after remaining on the sidelines in July. With demand picking up and the economic environment looking more conducive, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) bought equities worth $284 million in August. China firing regulatory shots at its tech giants gives all the more hope that India could corner some of the benefits.

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Malaysia’s Prime Minister steps down amid covid-19 criticism

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COVID-19 resurgence hits Asia as Tokyo, Thailand and Malaysia post record cases

Olympics host city Tokyo, as well as Thailand and Malaysia, announced record COVID-19 infections on Saturday, mostly driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant of the disease.The surge in Delta variant cases is rattling parts of Asia previously relatively successful in containing COVID-19, such as Vietnam, which will from Monday impose strict curbs on movement in several cities and provinces.Cases also surged in Sydney, where police cordoned off the central business district to prevent a protest against a strict lockdown that will last until the end of August.Police in Sydney closed train stations, banned taxis from dropping passengers off downtown and deployed 1,000 officers to set up checkpoints and to disperse groups.

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Delta variant rampant in Asia; Tokyo, Thailand, Malaysia post record Covid cases

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Man saves twin girls from house fire, but family loses everything

FOX 2 - Ray Lucas said he and his girlfriend had just run to the corner gas station, early this past Saturday morning he says they were only gone for 15 minutes or so. When they got back, the house was on fire"The house was engulfed in smoke, I saw my mom and my niece were standing at the door and they were frantic," Lucas said.Frantic because Ray Lucas says he knew his twin 18-month-old girls Milan and Malaysia were still inside, asleep in the basement - every second a matter of life and death."I just knew I had to get my babies out," he said.

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Death rates surge in Southeast Asia as COVID-19 spreads

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Indonesia has converted nearly its entire oxygen production to medical use just to meet the demand from COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe. Overflowing hospitals in Malaysia had to resort to treating patients on the floor.

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Global COVID-19 cases rise 12% in past week

According to the latest data from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) weekly situation report, global COVID-19 cases rose 12% in the past week, with all regions except the Americas and Africa reporting increases. Cases have risen globally since the beginning of the month.

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Malaysia shuts Covid vaccination centre after 200 workers infected

AstraZeneca and Sinovac jabs in its rollout.

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Malaysia to ease coronavirus lockdowns in five states next week

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Malaysia to impose tighter restrictions in capital amid new Covid cases

Malaysia on Thursday announced tighter restrictions on movement and businesses in the capital Kuala Lumpur and neighbouring Selangor state as new coronavirus cases show no sign of abating.

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Take Covid vaccine, even my mother and I have got it: PM Modi

COVID vaccine doses have been administered in India, which is more than the population of countries like Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Canada. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who chaired a review meeting regarding the progress of vaccination and COVID-19 situation in the country, was informed about the same by the top officials on Saturday.

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Fresh Covid-19 outbreaks in Asia disrupt global shipping, chip supply chain

HONG KONG : As Western economies roar back to life, a fresh wave of Covid-19 clusters in Asia—where vaccination campaigns remain in their early stages—is creating new bottlenecks in the global supply chain, threatening to push up prices and weigh on the post-pandemic recovery.An outbreak at one of the world’s busiest ports in southern China has led to global shipping delays, while infections at key points in the semiconductor supply chain in Taiwan and Malaysia are worsening a global chip shortage that has hindered production in the auto and technology industries.The new headaches add to inflation concerns, after China and the U.S.

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Canine coronavirus found in humans in Malaysia, study says

Clinical Infectious Diseases"on May 20, 2021,observed more than 301 samples collected in 2017 from patients suffering from pneumonia in Sarawak, Malaysia. Of those 301 patients, 2.5% were found to have canine coronavirus (CCoV).

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Malaysia to impose total lockdown from June 1 amid surge in Covid-19 cases

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Singapore approves Covid breath test with 1-minute result

Trial runSingapore will use the breathalyzers in a deployment trial to screen some incoming travelers from Malaysia, the Straits Times reported. Anyone who tests positive in the breath test would be screened in a confirmatory PCR swab test.

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Scientists find new Covid variant in Malaysia that 'passed to humans from dogs'

Scientists have reportedly detected a new variant of coronavirus originating in dogs which may cause disease in humans, a study has found.The variant was discovered among patients who had suffered from pneumonia in 2017-18, and could turn out to be the eighth unique form of the bug to cause disease in humans.A study published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal on Thursday, May 20, tested nasal swab samples from 301 pneumonia patients at a hospital in east Malaysia.Of the samples taken, eight which were taken mostly from children under five returned a positive result for a variant of animal coronavirus originating in canines, Reuters reported.The scientists found that the new strain contained a mutation that had also been spotted in

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New type of coronavirus originating in dogs found: Study

KUALA LUMPUR: A new type of coronavirus believed to have originated in dogs was detected among patients hospitalised with pneumonia in 2017-2018, and may be the eighth unique coronavirus known to cause disease in humans if it is confirmed as a pathogen, a study said.Researchers in the study, published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal on Thursday, said their findings underscored the public health threat of animal coronaviruses.The researchers said they had tested nasal swab samples taken from 301 pneumonia patients at a hospital in the east Malaysian state of Sarawak.

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The Latest: Red Cross says Asia facing vaccine crunch

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says Asia faces a COVID-19 vaccine supply crisis amid grim record daily death tolls.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0