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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Italy reports 373 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, 10,404 new cases
Europe

Italy reports 373 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, 10,404 new cases

  • Italy has registered 119,912 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February last year, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the seventh-highest in the world. The country has reported 3.98 million cases to date.
  • Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 20,312 on Tuesday, down from 20,635 a day earlier.
Published 27 Apr, 2021 09:07pm
US to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions for Chinese students
USA

US to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions for Chinese students

  • The US State Department is set to announce later on Tuesday it is expanding its national interest exemptions to cover students and academics around the world starting on Aug. 1 after it made the change in March for European students, officials said.
  • In the 2019-20 academic year 372,000 Chinese nationals attended universities and colleges in the United States, the IEE said in a November 2020 report.
Published 27 Apr, 2021 08:34pm
US probing two new blood clot cases after J&J's COVID-19 vaccine
USA

US probing two new blood clot cases after J&J's COVID-19 vaccine

  • One case was in a male and the other was in a female, both of whom were below 60 years, according to the agency, taking the total number of confirmed such cases to 17 out of 8 million shots given.
  • The new cases come after US health regulators on Friday recommended resumption of use of J&J's shot, ending a 10-day pause to investigate its link to extremely rare but potentially deadly blood clots.
Published 27 Apr, 2021 08:27pm
US consumer confidence vaults to 14-month high in April
USA

US consumer confidence vaults to 14-month high in April

  • The Conference Board said on Tuesday its consumer confidence index raced to a reading of 121.7 this month. That was the highest level since February 2020, just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and followed a reading of 109.0 in March. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the index increasing to a reading of 113.0 in April.
Published 27 Apr, 2021 07:48pm
UK's Queen Elizabeth returns to work after husband's funeral
Europe

UK's Queen Elizabeth returns to work after husband's funeral

  • Pictures showed the smiling 95-year-old monarch holding an audience with the new ambassadors for Latvia and Ivory Coast.
  • The queen carried out the engagements from her Windsor Castle home to the west of London where Philip's funeral was held two weeks ago, and it was the first since a period of official royal mourning ended.
Published 27 Apr, 2021 07:31pm
Brazil mid-April inflation tops 6pc, highest in over 4 years
USA

Brazil mid-April inflation tops 6pc, highest in over 4 years

  • The IPCA-15 annual price index rose to 6.17% from 5.52% the month before, almost exactly in line with the 6.25% median forecast in a Reuters poll of economists. It was the highest since December 2016, IBGE figures showed.
  • On a monthly basis, mid-month consumer price inflation in April slowed to 0.6% from 0.93% the month before, slightly below the Reuters poll forecast of 0.68%.
Published 27 Apr, 2021 06:48pm
Oil spills outside China's Qingdao port after ship collision
Energy

Oil spills outside China's Qingdao port after ship collision

  • The force of the impact on the forward port side caused a breach in cargo tanks and ballast tanks, with a quantity of oil lost into the ocean.
  • "The oil spill came after a clash between two vessels," an official for China's Shandong Maritime Safety Administration told Reuters on condition of anonymity, confirming that no one was injured.
Published 27 Apr, 2021 06:14pm
Sweden sees slowing third pandemic wave but cases still high
Europe

Sweden sees slowing third pandemic wave but cases still high

  • Sweden has experienced a severe third wave of the pandemic and the number of patients treated at intensive care has been the highest since during spring last year, although deaths have remained low.
  • "We saw a decrease of some 10-11% last week," Chief Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told a news conference. "There is still a very high level of spread in Sweden. It is too early to claim any victory," he said.
Published 27 Apr, 2021 05:55pm
Five police officers killed in southeast Nigeria
Africa

Five police officers killed in southeast Nigeria

  • "Around evening time on Monday, we saw some people in a bus approach the police station, shoot the gate open, and killing all the six officials who tried to resist them," said Festus Okoye.
Published 27 Apr, 2021 04:03pm
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