SYDNEY: Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria reported its lowest daily rise in new coronavirus cases in a month today, stoking hopes that a second wave of infection in the state is easing. The state recorded 17 deaths from the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a day […]
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WASHINGTON: The US death toll from Covid-19 rose 2 per cent to about 7,400 people last week, while new cases declined for a fourth week in a row, according to a Reuters tally of state and county reports. The country posted 360,000 new Covid-19 cases for the week ended August […]
JOHANNESBURG: US drug developer Novavax said on Monday (Aug 17) that it is starting a mid-stage study of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa, as the country experiences a surge in coronavirus cases. The Phase 2b trial study of NVX-CoV2373 will be conducted on about 2,665 healthy adults and […]
SEOUL: South Korea warned today of tighter novel coronavirus restrictions as new outbreaks appeared, including one linked to a church where more than 300 members of the congregation have been infected but hundreds more are reluctant to get tested. The outbreak linked to the Sarang Jeil Church in Seoul is […]
Community health volunteers check the temperature of a baby during a check up campaign for Covid-19 at a slum in Mumbai, India August 16, 2020. NEW DELHI: India’s death toll from the coronavirus hit 50,000 today, with more than 900 new fatalities reported in 24 hours, health ministry data showed. […]
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe entered a Tokyo hospital today for an examination but a detailed reason for the visit was not immediately known, local media reported. Government sources said it was not a worrying situation, Nippon TV reported, while Kyodo News cited people near to the prime minister […]
WASHINGTON: The United States surpassed 170,000 coronavirus deaths yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, as health officials express concerns over Covid-19 complicating the fall flu season. Deaths rose by 483 yesterday, with Florida, Texas and Louisiana, leading the rise in fatalities. The United States has at least 5.4 million confirmed […]
California on Friday became the first US state to surpass 600,000 cases and the Midwest saw several record one-day rises as some states struggled to contain the pandemic even as a few welcomed students back to school campuses. Russia said on Saturday that it has produced the first batch of […]
Over the last three weeks, the number of new confirmed cases in South Africa has dropped from a peak of over 12,000 a day to an average over the past week of around 5,000 a day. The recovery rate has increased from 48 per cent to 80 per cent. A […]
Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine has been named “Sputnik V” in homage to the world’s first satellite launched by the Soviet Union. Russia has produced the first batch of its new vaccine for Covid-19, the Interfax news agency quoted the health ministry as saying on Saturday, hours after the ministry reported the […]