MELBOURNE: An Australian state reported a record 59 deaths today, the highest ever daily total for the country, including previously unrecorded fatalities in aged care homes over the past several weeks. The increase fatalities in Victoria state pushed the country’s death toll to 737 as the national cabinet — made […]
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NEW YORK: Unprecedented quantities of vaccines could be produced by 28 manufacturers in 10 countries over the next two years to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN children’s agency Unicef said yesterday, as it announced it would help lead efforts to procure and distribute them. Unicef’s role is part of […]
MUMBAI: India reported another record daily jump of 83,883 coronavirus infections today, taking its tally to 3.85 million, just 100,000 behind Brazil, the world’s second most affected nation, health ministry data showed. Asia’s worst-hit country has been posting the world’s largest daily caseload every day for almost a month, although […]
PARIS: Tens of millions of pupils returned to school in France, Poland and Russia today, their rucksacks loaded with exercise books, geometry sets and, for many, face masks to protect them from a resurgent coronavirus pandemic. Hand cleansing stations, social distancing and staggered play time will become the new normal […]
FRANKFURT: Getting a coronavirus vaccine from manufacturing sites to some parts of the world with rural populations and unreliable electricity supply will be an immense challenge, given the need to store some vials at temperatures as low as minus 80 degrees Celsius, Deutsche Post warned on Tuesday (Sep 1). The […]
BRUSSELS: The European Commission said on Monday (Aug 31) that it would contribute to an initiative led by the World Health Organization to buy COVID-19 vaccines, while the WHO said Germany had joined the pact and that the agency was still negotiating with the bloc. The Commission, announcing that it […]
MANILA: The Philippines’ health ministry today reported 3,483 additional novel coronavirus infections and 39 more deaths. In a bulletin, the ministry said total confirmed infections had reached 224,264, more than half of which were reported in the past 30 days, while deaths had increased to 3,597. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte […]
WELLINGTON: Schools and businesses reopened in Auckland today after the lifting of a lockdown in New Zealand’s largest city to contain the resurgence of the coronavirus, but face masks were made mandatory on public transport across the country. The Pacific nation of 5 million people had appeared to have succeeded […]
Global coronavirus infections soared past 25 million, as countries tightened restrictions to halt the health crisis that has upended life for most of humanity. The United States neared six million coronavirus cases on Sunday, nearly a quarter of the planet’s total, as nations around the world battle to contain the […]
SYDNEY: Australia reported a record daily rise in Covid-19 deaths today, although the number of new infections in the country’s virus epicentre fell to a near two-month low. Victoria state said its Covid-19 death toll rose by 41, including 22 fatalities which came from aged care facilities in the weeks […]