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Brussels, Aug 5 : The European Commission announced it has approved a deal that allows European Union (EU) member states to buy up to 200 million doses of Novavax’s Covid-19 jab, once the European Medicines Agency (EMA) deems it safe and effective fo…

Geneva, Aug 5 : The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked rich countries to pause the roll out of booster vaccines against Covid-19 till the end of September, to help poorer nations get doses.”Even as hundreds of millions of people are still wait…

Beijing, Aug 5 : Amid a resurgence of new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, authorities in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province where the pandemic originated in 2019, have planned to complete a new round of all-inclusive nucleic acid testin…

Jakarta, Aug 5 : At least 640 doctors in Indonesia have died of Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic in March last year, authorities said.The Indonesian Medical Association said on Wednesday that among the 640 victims, 347 were general practition…

Brussels, Aug 5 : The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have strongly recommended complete Covid-19 vaccination as a key to protect against the most serious effects of the virus, includi…

Washington, Aug 5 : The Delta variant now accounts for an estimated 93.4 per cent of all the new Covid-19 cases in the US that were reported during the last two weeks of July, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesda…

New York, Aug 5 : The White House communications war room is struggling to handle the fallout of the chaotic communication on the precise level of panic needed to deal with the Covid-19 Delta variant surge across the 50 states of the US.”There’s a lo…

Washington, Aug 5 : In a grim development, the global coronavirus caseload has topped the 200 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.25 million and vaccinations soared to over 4.26 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University…

Beijing, Aug 5 : China’s Jiangsu province reported 40 new locally transmitted confirmed cases of Covid-19, the local health commission said on Thursday.Among them, four were registered in the provincial capital Nanjing, while 36 were recorded in the …

United Nations, Aug 5 : The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Wednesday expressed concern about the worsening humanitarian situation in Yemen as a result of flooding and rise in Covid-19 cases.Heavy rains and flooding i…