Published by AFP Schiphol (Netherlands) (AFP) – Several European nations on Saturday announced their first cases of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, as governments worldwide began pulling down the shutters to contain the new Omicron variant. Britain, Germany and Italy confirmed their first cases of the new Covid-19 strain, while Dutch authorities quarantined 61
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Published by NJ.com Scientists in South Africa identified a new variant of the coronavirus this week that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province. It’s unclear where the new strain first emerged, but scientists first alerted the World Health Organization and it has now been
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Published by Reuters By Nandita Bose and David Shepardson NANTUCKET, Mass./WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will bar entry to most travelers from eight southern African countries starting on Monday, after a potentially more-contagious new coronavirus variant was identified in South Africa, President Joe Biden said on Friday. The new variant, dubbed Omicron, poses a new
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Published by Reuters By David Shepardson and Stephanie Nebehay WASHINGTON/GENEVA (Reuters) – The discovery of a new coronavirus variant named Omicron triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa and stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic suffered their biggest falls in more than a year. The World
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Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, A day after some respite, mercury dropped to below freezing point across Kashmir Valley with Pahalgam being the coldest at minus 3.3°C on Friday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that mercury settled at minus 1.3°C against previous night’s 0.4°C. On November 23, the mercury settled at minus 2.3°C in city
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Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, A militant was killed after an infiltration bid was foiled in Poonch area of Jammu. Army on Friday claimed to have foiled the infiltration attempt by killing a Pakistani militant along Line of Control in Poonch district last night. “On night 25 November 2021, Pak (militant) attempted an infiltration bid along LoC
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Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, Nov 25 National Investigation Agency (NIA) has carried out searches at five locations in southern Kashmir area of Shopian and central Kashmir’s Budgam districts in connection with “Al- Qaeda case of Lucknow UP.” According to an NIA statement, the case pertains to Umar Halmandi, an alleged Al-Qaeda operative, who along with other
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Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, and most other places in Kashmir recorded rise in minimum temperature amid cloud cover on Thursday. Two days after experiencing the coldest night of the season with temperature plummeting as low as minus 2.3°C, Srinagar witnessed 0.4°C against previous night’s 0.3°C, a meteorological department here told GNS. Qazigund recorded
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Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, Police on Wednesday claimed to have killed three militants including a top TRF commander in a gunfight at Rambagh area of Srinagar. IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar told GNS that the militants were killed in the encounter with police this evening. He said that one of “three militants killed in gunfight” at Rambagh
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Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, A day after Srinagar recorded season’s coldest night so far, the minimum temperature rose in the summer capital and elsewhere in Kashmir Valley on Wednesday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that mercury settled at 0.3°C against previous night’s minus 1.7°C which happened to be the coldest low temperature recorded so
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