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[Ticker] EU sends emergency Covid aid to Romania

October 18, 2021

The EU has sent 250 oxygen concentrators and 5,200 vials of antibodies used to treat coronavirus to Romania, where one person was still dying of Covid-19 each six minutes at the start of October and where vaccination rates were just 33 percent. Russia, on Saturday, also recorded over 1,000 deaths in one day - equivalent to someone dying every one-and-a-half minutes, with the Kremlin blaming vaccine scepticism for the problem.

 

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