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UN chief calls for global coordinated effort to end pandemic
With more than two million lives now lost worldwide to Covid-19, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a global coordinated effort to end the pandemic and "save lives".
Indian partying hotspot Goa counts losses, braces for change
The sun’s golden rays fall on Goa’s smooth, sandy beaches every evening, magical as ever but strangely quiet and lonely. This holiday season, few visitors are enjoying the celebrated sunsets in the Indian party hotspot.
Covid: WHO chief calls on governments to vaccinate at-risk groups in next 100 days
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has called for a “collective commitment” to get vaccinations underway worldwide for health workers and others who are at high risk of contracting Covid-19, in the next 100 days.
Entertainment world hopes to stage a comeback after Covid-19 year
The year 2020 will forever be remembered not only as the time of pandemic but also as the one with empty stadiums, galleries, concert halls, and movie theatres.
World must be ready for the next pandemic: UN
The United Nations underscored the need to learn lessons from the coronavirus pandemic, and urged greater solidarity within and among countries, to deal with future health emergencies.
Inequalities between rich and poor deepened during Covid-19
Inequalities between the rich and poor worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic and poverty increased, for the first time in decades. In part two of our series on how the virus has changed the world, we look at the ways the pandemic has pushed back efforts to create more equitable societies.
In 2020, AP photographers captured a world in distress
A 64-year-old woman weeps, hugging her husband as he lay dying in the COVID-19 unit of a California hospital. A crowded refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, engulfed in flames, disgorges a string of migrants fleeing this hell on Earth. Rain-swept protesters, enraged by the death of George Floyd in police custody, rail against the system and the heavens.
A season of fear, not cheer, as virus changes Christmas
Montserrat Parello lost her husband eight years ago, and Christmas gatherings with children and grandchildren had helped her deal with her loneliness. But this year, the 83-year-old will be alone for the holiday at her home in Barcelona, due to the risk of infection from the coronavirus.
Covid-19: Bangladesh sees 37 more deaths, 1,799 new cases
The health authorities in Bangladesh on Monday reported 1,799 new Covid -19 cases in 24 hours, pushing the country’s total tally 492,332.
Besides, 37 more people died from the disease during the period, raising the death toll to 7,089.
The mortality rate was recordrd 1.44 percent, said the Directorate General of Health Services.
Pandemic threatens India's children with child labor rising
A boy who cried out when he was beaten for complaining of stomach pains drew attention from a passerby, who alerted police in the central Indian city of Agra.