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UK records 17,272 new COVID cases and 231 new deaths
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom recorded 17,272 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, up from 15,539 a day earlier and raising the total number of infections since the start of the pandemic to over 1...
Dec 06, 2020
South Africa urges quarantine after ‘super-spreader’ student parties
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa on Sunday urged school students who attended a series of end-of-year "Rage" parties to enter 10 days of quarantine after identifying four such parties as COVID-19 "s...
Dec 06, 2020
Turkey records 30,402 daily coronavirus cases
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey recorded 30,402 new coronavirus cases, including asymptomatic ones, over the past 24 hours, Health Ministry data showed on Sunday. The COVID-19 death toll rose by 195 in the ...
Dec 06, 2020
Italy’s COVID-19 death toll passes 60,000, with 564 new deaths
ROME (Reuters) - Italy reported 564 COVID-related deaths on Sunday, down from 662 a day earlier and taking the official toll since the outbreak began in February above 60,000, the health ministry said...
Dec 06, 2020
Indonesia receives first COVID vaccine from China’s Sinovac
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine from China on Sunday, President Joko Widodo said, as the government prepares a mass inoculation programme. Jokowi, as t...
Dec 06, 2020
Tabaré Vázquez: Humble oncologist who rose to be Uruguay’s president
By Fabian Werner MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Tabar Vzquez, an oncologist who became the first centre-left politician to be elected president of Uruguay and won popularity for a mix of pro-business policies...
Dec 06, 2020
Thousands of anti-Lukashenko protesters march in Belarus, dozens detained
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators marched in the Belarus capital Minsk and elsewhere on Sunday as weekly protests demanding the resignation of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko contin...
Dec 06, 2020
Germany’s Bavaria region to tighten coronavirus lockdown
MUNICH (Reuters) - The southern German region of Bavaria, which has so far recorded the country's highest coronavirus death toll, announced on Sunday that it will impose a tougher lockdown from Wednes...
Dec 06, 2020
Indonesia names second cabinet minister as suspect in a graft case
By Tabita Diela JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's anti-graft agency named Social Affairs Minister Juliari Batubara on Sunday as a suspect in a million-dollar bribery case, along with four others, while ...
Dec 06, 2020
Incoming Moldovan president rallies supporters to demand snap parliamentary vote
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of incoming Moldovan president Maia Sandu rallied in Chisinau on Sunday to demand a snap parliamentary election, accusing parliament of ...
Dec 06, 2020
