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Manila, Oct 13 : The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) reported 7,181 new Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, pushing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 2,690,455 so far.The DOH also reported that 173 more people died…

Washington, Oct 13 : The United States is planning to ease land travel restrictions for fully vaccinated visitors from Canada and Mexico in a phased approach kicking off in early November, local media reported.From early next month, fully vaccinated …

Tokyo, Oct 13 : Japanese pharmaceutical group Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma is planning to launch the first-ever plant-based Covid-19 vaccine in the world, which will likely to be of low-cost, easier to transport as well as store than the conventional jab…

Seoul, Oct 13 : South Korean Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said on Wednesday that the government will prepare for a gradual return to normalcy from the Covid-19 pandemic amid a higher vaccination rate.Kim presided over an inaugural meeting of the gover…

Islamabad, Oct 13 : Pakistan reported 1,021 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Wednesday.The NCOC, a department leading campaign against the pandemic, said that the country has conduc…

Wellington, Oct 13 : New Zealand reported 55 new Delta variant cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country’s community outbreak to 1,719.Fifty-three of the new infections were recorded in the large…

United Nations, Oct 13 : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, next month must be a turning point for climate action.”COP26 must be a turning point if we are to fulfi…

Mexico City, Oct 13 : Mexico’s ongoing third wave of Covid-19 has shown signs of abating over the past 10 weeks, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Tuesday.According to the health official, indicators began th…

Moscow, Oct 13 : Russia has confirmed 973 Covid-related fatalities over the past 24 hours, the highest daily count reported in the country since the start of the pandemic, bringing the national death toll to 218,345, the official coronavirus monitori…

London, Oct 12 : Assessing the stiffness of the arteries could help identify patients most at risk of dying from Covid-19, new research has revealed.Estimated pulse wave velocity (ePWV) — a readily available marker of aortic stiffening — has been s…