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- Bangladesh rolls out Covid vaccination campaign to almost 1 million Rohingya refugees in cramped camps
The Bangladesh government has begun working in concert with aid workers on a mass vaccination campaign to provide Covid inoculations to nearly one million Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps.Aug 10, 2021 09:38World News - Indonesia ‘on edge of catastrophe’ as coronavirus Delta variant floods hospitals – Red CrossIndonesia is on the verge of a coronavirus “catastrophe,” the Red Cross has warned, as the country endures a rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 that has already overwhelmed its hospitals.Jun 29, 2021 08:56World News
- Red Cross fears US adding Yemen’s Houthis to terrorist list will have ‘chilling effect’ on humanitarian aidThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said it is worried that the US designating Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a terrorist group will severely hurt much-needed humanitarian aid to the war-torn country.Jan 14, 2021 14:53World News
- It’s not censorship, it’s ‘positive change’: Red Cross chief says social media should promote ‘the right information’ on vaccinesWith the Red Cross warning governments to clamp down on a “second pandemic” of misinformation, the organization’s health and care chief told RT that he’s not demanding censorship, but pushing for “positive change.”Dec 2, 2020 04:29World News
- Covid-19 death toll tops 1 MILLION worldwide as pandemic spikes in US, Brazil & EuropeThe coronavirus has claimed more than one million lives around the globe, the latest dark ‘milestone’ for the worldwide pandemic first detected some 10 months ago, which continues to spread across several hotspots.Sep 29, 2020 02:32World News
- Game of Thrones ‘worst war criminals’ RANKED by Red CrossThe distinction between war crime and warfare can be blurry in the harsh world of Game of Thrones but the Red Cross crunched the numbers on the abundance of atrocities in the show to identify the worst war criminals in Westeros.Apr 12, 2019 06:40World News
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