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Mexico City, Aug 19 : Mexico has authorised the emergency use of the US-manufactured Moderna vaccine against Covid-19, the country’s Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell said.The Mexican official confirmed on his Twitte…

Washington, Aug 19 : The US will begin administrating Covid-19 booster shots next month as new data shows that vaccine protection wanes over time, top US health officials announced on Wednesday.”We are prepared to offer booster shots for all American…

Washington, Aug 19 : Child Covid-19 cases in the US have been rising since late June, according to a recent report.More than 121,000 new child cases were logged in the week ending Aug.12 in the US, “a continuing substantial increase,” said the report…

Washington, Aug 19 : Hospitals across the US are “back in crisis mode” due to a fourth surge of the Covid-19 pandemic driven by the Delta variant, according to a media report.Increasing Covid-19 cases, common viruses spreading again as people get tog…

Tehran, Aug 19 : Iran reported on Wednesday 39,174 new Covid-19 cases, taking the country’s total infections to 4,556,417.The pandemic has claimed 99,691 lives in the country, after 583 new deaths were registered in the past 24 hours, according to a …

Seoul, Aug 19 : South Korea reported 2,152 more cases of the Covid-19 as of midnight Wednesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 230,808.The daily caseload was up from 1,805 in the previous day, marking the country’s…

Singapore, Aug 19 : Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 53 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total tally in the country to 66,334.The new infections included 49 locally transmitted cases.As many as 23 are linked to previous case…

Valletta, Aug 19 : Malta has donated 40,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine and the same amount of rapid test kits to Libya, according to the country’s Health Minister Chris Fearne.The donations were part of a European Union effort to supply vaccines a…

Kathmandu, Aug 18 : In a rare political development, Nepals first and fourth largest parties in the Parliament split on Wednesday following the promulgation of an Ordinance by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari.The Nepal government had on Tuesday recomme…

New York, Aug 18 : While diabetes, obesity and a history of smoking cigarettes are considered as risk factors for poorer Covid-19 outcomes, a new study claims that people with cannabis use disorder (CUD) may also be at increased risk.The research fro…