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30 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
#BREAKING US President Joe Biden restricts travel from India to US due to the Covid-19 outbreak: W.House Image
#BREAKING The WHO on Friday listed the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, thus helping countries that can't assess the vaccine's effectiveness to start using it, and allowing the Covax vaccine sharing scheme to distribute it Image
#UPDATE Starting May 4 the United States will restrict travel from India due to rampant spread of Covid-19. Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement, citing the "extraordinarily high Covid-19 caseloads and multiple variants" circulating in the country Image
#UPDATE India on Friday posted another grim global record for daily coronavirus infections, pushing worldwide cases past 150 million, as the WHO listed the US made Covid-19 Moderna vaccine for emergency use
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