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The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.

He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.

South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.

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The Rage 2020 festivals that took place in Ballito, Plettenberg Bay, Johannesburg and Jeffery’s Bay have been identified as Covid-19 superspreader events.

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WASHINGTON,DC, United States (AP) - Outgoing United States National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe says China poses the greatest threat to America and the rest of the free world since World War II, as the Trump Administration ramps up anti-Chinese rhetoric to pressure President-elect Joe Biden to be tough on Beijing.

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States drafted plans Thursday for who will go to the front of the line when the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine become available later this month, as U.S. deaths from the outbreak eclipsed 3,100 in a single day, obliterating the record set last spring. With initial supplies of the vaccine certain to be limited, governors […]

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Southern California will likely soon be under a stay-at-home order, after state officials reported late Friday, Dec. 4, that the region’s intensive care unit bed capacity fell below 15%. Gov. Gavin Newsom, in an announcement Thursday, said the state would enact such orders by region when available ICU bed availability fell to 15% or lower. […]

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WESTERN BUREAU: A Hague, Trelawny-bred mathematics major, who minored in economics at The University of the West Indies, Mona, has staked the claim of being the first in Jamaica to introduce an influencer marketing agency. At age 30, Carisse...

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Staff members of the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) who had been in contact with the six-day-old baby that died while being infected with COVID-19 were tested for the virus yesterday after it was revealed that the parents of the infant tested negative.

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Soraya Jiménez Mendívil made history at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 when she won a gold medal for her 490.5 pound lift. It was the first year female weightlifting was included as an Olympic sport. [...]

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