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Word Count: 2127   With the Delhi capital area facing a severe oxygen shortage, Prime Minister Narendra Modi implored Indians to get vaccinated and to disregard rumors about dangerous side-effects. In Baghdad, more than 80 people were killed when a fire tore through a hospital treating patients, including many with coronavirus. Key Developments Vaccine Tracker: More than 1 billion doses have been given around the world India’s double-digit growth forecast in peril as virus hits hard The e...

World Pledges Aid for India as Cases Surge: Virus Update Bloomberg 33 mins ago Bloomberg News © Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Healthcare workers wearing protective masks administer doses of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen Covid-19 vaccine to senior residents at San Rafael Commons in San Rafael, California. (Bloomberg) -- India’s Covid-19 crisis is worsening, with a million cases added in the past three days. The U.S. will send India raw materials and step up fi...

Patients Perish in Baghdad Fire; U.S. to Aid India: Virus Update Bloomberg 10 mins ago Bloomberg News © Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Healthcare workers wearing protective masks administer doses of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen Covid-19 vaccine to senior residents at San Rafael Commons in San Rafael, California. (Bloomberg) -- New Covid-19 cases and deaths eased in Germany as expanded virus restrictions and an accelerating vaccine program may be having an effec...

Almost three million Swiss have ‘probably been infected’ with Covid-19 Having a drink in Lucerne on Monday, when restaurant terraces and outdoor seating areas re-opened Keystone / Alexandra Wey Covid-19 stories in the Sunday newspapers include government estimates that almost three million people in Switzerland have had coronavirus, that poverty increases one’s chance of contracting and dying from it, and that recruitment problems are affecting vaccine delivery. This content was ...

German Cases Ease; Patients Die in Baghdad Blaze: Virus Update Bloomberg 1 hr ago Bloomberg News © Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Healthcare workers wearing protective masks administer doses of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen Covid-19 vaccine to senior residents at San Rafael Commons in San Rafael, California. (Bloomberg) -- New Covid-19 cases and deaths eased in Germany as expanded virus restrictions and an accelerating vaccine program may be having an effect. In...

ZURICH (BLOOMBERG) - The Swiss government estimates that about one-third of the population has been infected with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic. At the end of 2020, government scientists found antibodies in about 20 per cent of those tested and now believe that another 10 per cent have been infected, newspaper NZZ am Sonntag reported. "Conservatively calculated, around a third of the population has been infected since the beginning of the pandemic," said Federal Office of Public Heal...

Patients Perish in Baghdad Fire; U.S. to Aid India: Virus Update Bloomberg 1 hr ago Bloomberg News © Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Healthcare workers wearing protective masks administer doses of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen Covid-19 vaccine to senior residents at San Rafael Commons in San Rafael, California. (Bloomberg) -- New Covid-19 cases and deaths eased in Germany as expanded virus restrictions and an accelerating vaccine program may be having an effect. ...