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UK jobless rate highest since 2016 as second COVID-19 lockdown hits

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  Britain’s unemployment rate hit its highest in nearly five years in the three months to November, when coronavirus cases began to rise for a second time and most of the country returned to a partial lockdown. Redundancies touched a record high, taking the unemployment rate to 5.0%, its highest since mid-2016, according to official data, although the increase was slightly weaker than economists’ forecasts. There were some signs of a limited recovery in December, when lockdown measures eased, although a deterioration is likely in early 2021 as a tougher lockdown shut schools and closed most non-essential businesses to the public. Tax data for December showed a 52,000 increase in the number of staff on company payrolls from November, but there were 828,000 fewer workers on payrolls than in February. Economists said the data showed the jobs market was holding up better than many forecasters had feared.Unemployment has been kept down by the government’s Job Retention Scheme, which support
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लाखौं मूल्य बराबरका पटका बरामद

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  बिर्तामोड । झापाको मेचीनगर–१५ हेल्दुबारीबाट प्रहरीले लाखौं मूल्य बराबरको पटका बरामद गरेको छ । जिल्ला प्रहरी कार्यालय झापाबाट खटिएको प्रहरी टोलीले भारतबाट नेपाल तर्फ अबैध रुपमा भन्सार छली लुकाई छिपाई राखेको अवस्थामा एक लाख रुपैंया बराबरको खोर्सानी पटका, जगमग चकलेट, पापर र सुकुमेल गरी बरामद गरेको जिल्ला प्रहरी कार्यालय झापाका प्रहरी प्रवक्ता डीएसपी राकेश थापाले जानकारी दिए ।
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Don't Ignore the Good News On Covid-19 From Asia

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  It’s easy to feel that there’s no light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel. Europe’s intensive care wards are filling up again,   pushing   France and Germany into a fresh round of stay-at-home restrictions and lockdowns — albeit ones designed to be softer than the first. Even countries hit hard by the first wave, such as Italy and Sweden, are seeing rising cases, suggesting herd immunity is a long way off. The U.S. looks to have given up on controlling the pandemic until a vaccine arrives. Yet we shouldn’t ignore the better news from Asia. The strategies pursued by South Korea, Vietnam, China and others do still seem to be paying off. While the total Covid-19 death toll is between 500-700 per million people in France, the U.K., Spain and the U.S., in China and South Korea it is below 10 per million. Cases are a less perfect measure, but there’s a similar observable gap. Wuhan, once the epicenter of Covid-19, is welcoming tourists again. The perception of an Asian advantage in this pa
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US signs up pharmacy chains as Covid-19 vaccination centres: Report

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  Several US retail pharmacy chains have agreed to serve as Covid-19 vaccination sites under a federal government plan, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. A plan by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed companies who have agreed to participate include Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, CVS Health Corp , Walmart Inc, Kroger Co and Costco Wholesale Corp, the  report  said. The government would provide the vaccines to the pharmacies free of charge, the Wall Street Journal report said, to help expand and accelerate the public’s access to vaccines as supplies increase. The pharmacies would be involved in the second phase of the planned vaccine rollout in the United States, the report said, with the first phase targeted at healthcare workers and others at high risk of infection. The companies involved in the plan and the CDC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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सरकारको नाममा रहेको काठमाडौँको मस्जिदको जग्गा कसरी पुग्यो व्यक्तिको नाममा ?

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  काठमाडौँको मुटु सुन्धारामा रहेको मुसाफिर मादिनी मस्जिदमा गत साता बिहानै डोजर लगेर तोडफोड गरियो । मस्जिदमा सुतेका महिला बालबालिका आत्तिदै उठे । दसैँको मध्य समय अर्थात् अष्टमीका दिन सारा नेपालीहरु घर–घरमा ब्यस्त भएको र सरकारी कार्यालयहरु पनि बन्द भएको मौका पारेर डोजर चलाइएपछि यस घटनालाई मुस्लिम समुदायले आफूमाथिको अन्यायको रुपमा लिएका छन् । डोजर आक्रमणबाट मस्जिदको अगाडिको भागमा क्षति पु-याइएको थियो । घटनापछि एकजुट भएका मुस्लिम समुदायले अहिले  मस्जिदको भत्काएको अगाडिको भागको धमाधम निर्माण थालेका छन् । काठमाडौं महानगरपालिका वडा नम्बर २२ का वडाध्यक्ष चीनकाजी महर्जन समेत भूमाफियासँग मिलेर मस्जिद भत्काउन आएको मुसाफिर मादिनी मस्जिद व्यवस्थापन समितिका सचिव नजिबुल्लाह अन्सारीले आरोप लगाए । उनले भने–‘केटाकेटी महिला सबै सुतिरहेका बेला एक्कासी बिहानै डोजर लगाएर भत्काउने प्रयास गरियो । प्रहरी र स्थानीय मिलेर उनीहरुलाई भगाउन सफल भयौँ ।’ गत बिहीबार साँझ पनि वडाध्यक्ष चीनकाजी मर्हजन सहितको एक समूह काम रोक्न आएको उनले बताए । सचिव अन्सारीले भने, ‘सबैभन्दा पहिला त हामीले धार्मिक सद्भाव कामय गर्ने हो । हा
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PLANNING IS UNDERWAY:CVS, Walgreens Among Pharmacies Set to Give Covid-19 Vaccines

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  About a dozen pharmacy chains will partner with the federal government to administer Covid-19 vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in an update to states. CVS Health Corp. ,  Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.  and  Walmart Inc.  are among those that have already enrolled to receive vaccines directly from the CDC. The companies represent about 35,000 stores, and the CDC anticipates more chains will sign up. Participating pharmacies are expected to start administering vaccines during phase two, when more doses become available. Working with drugstores could help quickly vaccinate people given their sprawling reach and the number of patients they serve.CVS and Walgreens  are slated  to be involved in earlier stages of the rollout to help vaccinate residents of long-term care facilities. CVS to Offer Rapid Flu, Strep Tests at 1,100 In-Store Clinics
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France church attack victim who raised alarm was Brazil-born samba enthusiast

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  One of the victims of Thursday’s knife attack in a French church was able to stagger out and raise the alarm before she died from her injuries. She was 44-year-old mother-of-three- Simone Barreto Silva, who moved to France from Brazil as a teenager, loved dancing samba, and displayed a devotion to Jesus Christ. “She crossed the road, covered in blood,” said Brahim Jelloule, manager of the Unik cafe which is across the road from the church’s side entrance in the Mediterranean city of Nice. Jelloule said his brother, who was working in the cafe at the time, and an employee, saw Silva and brought her inside. “To begin with, they couldn’t understand anything. She was still talking, she was saying that there was someone inside (the church),” Jelloule said in an interview with the France Television broadcaster.Silva was one of three people killed in the knife attack. The others were Vincent Loques, the sexton of the church, 55, who had his throat slit, and a 60-year-old woman who was behea
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साउदीमा नाराबाजी गर्ने नेपालीमाथि मुद्दा

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  काठमाडौँ — साउदी अरबमा घर फिर्तीको माग गर्दै नेपाल सरकारविरुद्ध नाराबाजीमा उत्रिएका एक नेपाली श्रमिकलाई शान्ति तथा सुरक्षाको मुद्दा लागेको छ । स्थानीय प्रशासनले उनीमाथि मुद्दा चलाएको हो । घर फिर्न नपाएका नेपाली श्रमिकहरूले गत भदौ २१ गते रियादस्थित समास्को कम्पनीमा प्रधानमन्त्री केपी शर्मा ओलीविरुद्ध नाराबाजी गरेका थिए । साउदीमा यसअघि नेपाली श्रमिकविरुद्ध शान्तिसुरक्षासम्बन्धी मुद्दा लागेको थिएन । सार्वजनिक स्थानमा कुनै पनि प्रकारको धर्ना र नाराबाजी गर्न साउदीमा मनाही छ । नेपाली राजदूत महेन्द्रसिंह राजपुतले ती नेपालीलाई माफी दिई स्वदेश पठाउन पहल भइरहेको बताए ।
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French Terror Suspect Entered Europe Through Italian Port, Italy Says

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A picture of Brahim al-Aouissaoui, who is suspected by French police and Tunisian security officials of carrying out Thursday's attack in Nice, is seen in this undated photo provided by his family on Oct. 30, 2020. Italy's interior minister confirmed Friday the Tunisian man who killed three people in an attack on worshippers at a church in Nice had passed through Italy on his way to France.At a news conference in Rome, Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said Ibrahim Issaoui disembarked from a migrant boat on Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa on September 20 and was given a repatriation order to leave Italy on October 9.Lamorgese gave no further details on what if any action was taken to act on the repatriation order or if Issaoui complied with the order.  Under current agreements with Italy, Tunisia agrees to take back a maximum of 80 nationals a week. New arrivals are invariably handed expulsion papers but are almost never detained until a flight home can be organi
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Don't fall for fake COVID-19 treatment methods, warns UAE ministry

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  The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) denied the rumors on social media about adopting a treatment method for those who develop COVID-19 symptoms, which includes taking various vitamins once on daily or weekly basis, without contacting governmental health authorities. Picture used for illustrative purposes only. Dubai: Beware people, do not fall for fake claims and recommendations on various online channels about COVID-19 cure and treatments, alerted the UAE health ministry on Saturday. The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) denied the rumors on social media about adopting a treatment method for those who develop COVID-19 symptoms, which includes taking various vitamins once on daily or weekly basis, without contacting governmental health authorities. MOHAP urged people who have COVID-19 symptoms to contact health authorities and ignore the rumors. Obtain accurate information from the official website of the ministry and its official accounts on social media, MOHAP sai
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Strong earthquake kills 19 people in Turkey and Greek islands

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  Nineteen people were killed in Turkey and Greece after a strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday, bringing buildings crashing down and setting off tidal waves which slammed into coastal areas and islands. People ran onto streets in panic in the Turkish city of Izmir, witnesses said, after the quake struck with a magnitude of up to 7.0. Neighbourhoods were deluged with surging seawater which swept debris inland and left fish stranded as it receded. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said 17 people died, one due to drowning, while 709 people were injured. On the Greek island of Samos two teenagers, a boy and a girl, were found dead in an area where a wall had collapsed. Search and rescue operations continued at 17 collapsed or damaged buildings in Izmir, AFAD said. Authorities were setting up tents with a total capacity of 2,000 people near areas with the highest damage, Urbanisation Minister Murat Kurum said.Ilke Cide, a doctoral student who was in
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Turkey's death toll from earthquake rises to 17

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  The death toll in Turkey due to an earthquake that struck on Friday rose to 17, the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said. The number of people injured rose to 709, it said, adding that search and rescue operations continued at 17 collapsed or damaged buildings. The strong earthquake was felt in both Greece and Turkey. Two people died on the Greek island of Samos, officials there said.
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U.S. nursing homes still face COVID-19 test delays; you can wash Halloween candy

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  The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. U.S. nursing homes lack access to prompt COVID-19 diagnoses Most U.S. nursing homes still cannot get prompt results of COVID-19 tests of staff and residents, researchers reported on Friday in JAMA Internal Medicine. They received responses from more than 15,000 skilled nursing facilities to the question: In the past two weeks, on average how long did it take you to receive COVID-19 test results? Only 14% said they get results of the most reliable viral tests back in less than one day, while 40% said it took at least three days to get results. Study co-author Dr. Michael Barnett of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health called that "an unacceptably slow turnaround." This was true "even among homes in hotspot counties supplied with rapid testing machines from the federal government,
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Brazil will buy China COVID-19 vaccine, VP Mourão says, contradicting Bolsonaro

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 Brazil’s government will “of course” buy a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine that is being tested in the country, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said on Friday, in the latest example of him contradicting President Jair Bolsonaro. Last week, Bolsonaro, a long-standing China critic, said the federal government would not buy a COVID-19 vaccine from China’s Sinovac, one day after the health minister said that it would be included in the nation’s immunization program. His comments thrust into the open a simmering debate over vaccine policy between the president and key governors, who have been exploring alternatives to the AstraZeneca vaccine the federal government has prioritized.However, in an interview in the magazine Veja that hit the stands on Friday, Mourão said Bolsonaro’s stance was without substance, putting it down to a war of words with political rivals, like Sao Paulo state Governor João Doria.The government will buy the vaccine, of course it will. We have already put the resources in B
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Pakistan PM Imran Khan vows to rid the world of Islamophobia, blasphemy

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  Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday vowed to run a campaign, by activating Islamic states’ leaders, to make the Western world understand that the Muslims get hurt the most due to disrespect of Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). “We are 1.25 billion Muslims. Why can’t we do that? I feel sad to say that it is a great failure of the Muslim world leaders. “I will run a campaign. I will contact the Muslim world leaders. I am sure, if we collectively make them understand that … disrespect of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) is the worst for us,” he said. Addressing the National Rehmatullil Alameen Conference held here in connection with the Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH), Khan said the Islamic world would have to tell the West that irrespective of the fact that thousands of Muslims had been killed in Afghanistan, Syria and Libya, the blasphemy of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) hurt them far more than loss of their lives. Starting with the recitation of verses from the Holy Quran in the mesmerising
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What you need to know about a COVID-19 vaccine

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  A vaccine for COVID-19 will be a critical tool for helping bring the pandemic under control when combined with effective testing and existing prevention measures.   Experts around the world are working hard to accelerate the development and manufacturing of a safe and effective vaccine. The threat to children posed by COVID-19 is enormous, extending far beyond the immediate physical effects of the disease. As lockdown restrictions continue or are re-imposed, children’s access to essential health services may be seriously affected. The resulting reductions in routine healthcare coverage levels and a looming recession are threatening the health and the future of a generation of children. Below are answers to some of the most common questions parents might have about a potential COVID-19 vaccine. When will a COVID-19 vaccine be ready? Developing a safe and effective vaccine takes time. There are currently more than 200 vaccine candidates under development, with many in clinical trials.
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UK jobless rate highest since 2016 as second COVID-19 lockdown hits

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  Britain’s unemployment rate hit its highest in nearly five years in the three months to November, when coronavirus cases began to rise for a second time and most of the country returned to a partial lockdown. Redundancies touched a record high, taking the unemployment rate to 5.0%, its highest since mid-2016, according to official data, although the increase was slightly weaker than economists’ forecasts. There were some signs of a limited recovery in December, when lockdown measures eased, although a deterioration is likely in early 2021 as a tougher lockdown shut schools and closed most non-essential businesses to the public. Tax data for December showed a 52,000 increase in the number of staff on company payrolls from November, but there were 828,000 fewer workers on payrolls than in February. Economists said the data showed the jobs market was holding up better than many forecasters had feared.Unemployment has been kept down by the government’s Job Retention Scheme, which support
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  Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli appointed eight new Cabinet ministers and one minister of state today, first time after he recommended dissolution of the House of Representatives on December 20. President Bidhya Devi Bhandari administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly appointed ministers. Portfolios of ministers Name of the minister Portfolio Top Bahadur Raymajhi Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Manichandra Thapa Drinking Water and Sanitation Prabhu Sah Urban Development Prem Bahadur Ale Forest and Environment Ganesh Thagunna Federal Affairs and General Administration Gauri Shankar Chaudhary Labour, Employment, and Social Security Juli Kumari Mahato Women, Children, and Senior Citizens Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal (portfolio changed) Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation Hridayesh Tripathi (portfolio changed) Health and Population Lilanath Shrestha (portfolio changed) Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe (portfolio changed) Land Management, Cooperati
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Covid-19: Preparations on to vaccinate 250-300 million Indians on priority

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A research scientist at India's Serum Institute, the world's largest maker of vaccines. India is gearing up to vaccinate at least 250-300 million people, including about 30 million health care and frontline workers, against  Coronavirus disease (Covid-19)  by July next year, for which it will be looking at procuring about 500-600 million vaccine doses. The Centre is regularly following up with the states to devise measures to successfully launch the Covid-19 vaccination drive across the country that is likely to start in the first quarter of next year when the vaccine is expected to be made available for use. Initially, the approvals to manufacturers are likely to be under the emergency use authorisation, and later after analysing full phase-3 clinical trials data, there will be marketing approvals in place for use by general public.A crucial part of the strategy is to get the exact list of people who need to be vaccinated on priority. States were asked to draw up a list of the
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