Leader criticises healthcare officials and orders army to distribute medicine as more than one million are infected by fever
Bulgaria's unemployment rate eased to 4.6% in April from 4.8% in the previous month as employers in the processing industry, retail and hospitality sector opened new jobs, data from the state employment agency showed on Monday.
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At the federal and state level, mask mandates have been relaxed and the US has fully vaccinated 66% of its population.
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Uganda's economy is seen expanding by between 3.8%-4.5% in the fiscal year to end June from 3.4% growth in the same period in 2021, helped by the easing of restrictions aimed at containing COVID-19's spread, its finance minister said on Tuesday.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, now the chief medical adviser to President Biden, was a member of the White House coronavirus task force under President Trump
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Under the new rules more travel will be permitted to the island and visa processing will speed-up.
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Most of Shanghai has stopped the spread of the coronavirus in the community and fewer than 1 million people remain under strict lockdown, authorities said...
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State-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco on Sunday reported an almost 82% rise in first-quarter net profit, broadly in line with analyst forecasts, helped by strong oil prices.
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North Korea has sent aircraft to China to pick up medical supplies days after it confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak, media reported on Tuesday.
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China's strict COVID-19 controls will hamper foreign investment into the country for years to come as limits on travel block the pipeline for projects, the President of the American Chamber of Commerce warned on Tuesday.
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Oil prices opened lower in early Asian trade on Tuesday after the European Union's efforts to enact a ban on Russian oil imports, a move that would tighten global supply, ran into resistance from member country Hungary.
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U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.5% in 2021 to 42,915 - the highest number killed on American roads in a single-year since 2005, U.S. regulators said Tuesday in its preliminary estimate.
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Brazil's government debt as a share of gross domestic product fell to 78.5% in March, the lowest level in almost two years, with improved revenues in states and municipalities leading to a new primary surplus for the month.
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Japan said on Tuesday it would start conducting "test tourism" in the form of limited package tours in May as a way of gathering information prior to a full re-opening of the country to tourism.
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The eurozone economy grew in the first quarter but only modestly, as the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant and Russia's invasion of Ukraine weighed on economic performance, according to a second estimate.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell acknowledged in an interview with Marketplace on Thursday that the central bank could have moved faster to raise interest rates and cut inflation, as the central bank comes under increasing scrutiny over whether it waite
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Portfolio investors have left their petroleum positions essentially unchanged for the last nine weeks as loss of production from Russia is matched by loss of consumption from China and Europe.
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