NEW DELHI: Key Indian cities re-opened for business today, with long queues for buses in the financial hub of Mumbai while traffic returned to the roads of New Delhi after a devastating second wave of coronavirus that killed hundreds of thousands. The 100,636 new infections of the past 24 hours […]
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MOSCOW: Russia reported 9,145 new Covid-19 cases today, including 2,897 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 5,117,274. The government coronavirus task force said 399 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 123,436.
HANOI: Vietnam has approved China’s Sinopharm vaccine for use against Covid-19, state media reported today, making it the third shot to be endorsed in the Southeast Asian country that is tackling a new outbreak of infections. The decision to approve the Sinopharm vaccine was issued by the health ministry, the […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s Victoria state reported five new local COVID-19 cases on Sunday (May 30), including a worker at a Melbourne aged care facility where not all of the residents have been vaccinated. The infections on the third day of a week-long lockdown raise the total to 40 in the latest […]
PARIS: The Pfizer vaccine is slightly less effective but appears to still protect against the more transmissible Indian strain of the virus that causes Covid-19, according to a study by France”s Pasteur Institute. “Despite slightly diminished efficacy, the Pfizer vaccine probably protects” against the Indian variant, according to laboratory test […]
LONDON: British royal Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, said today she had received a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine and paid tribute to everyone involved in the rollout of the inoculation programme. Kate, 39, said she had received the shot at the Science Museum, a prominent tourist attraction not far from […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria will enter a one-week COVID-19 lockdown forcing its near 7 million residents to remain home except for essential business as authorities struggle to contain a highly-infectious outbreak. “We’re dealing with a highly infectious strain of the virus, a variant of concern, which […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today he took full responsibility for the response to Covid-19 and he was truly sorry for suffering during the pandemic after his former aide Dominic Cummings said mistakes led to unnecessary deaths. “I take full responsibility for everything that has happened,” Johnson told […]
THE HAGUE: The European Medicines Agency will announce on Friday (May 26) whether it has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus jab for 12- to 15-year-olds, the regulator said. If approved, it will be the first vaccine to get the green light for young people in the 27-nation European Union. Pfizer is […]
Relatives gather around the body of a man who died from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), before cremating him on the banks of the river Ganges at Garhmukteshwar in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, May 6, 2021. NEW DELHI: India said Monday it had passed more than 300,000 […]