PARIS: France said today it was preparing to kick off a nationwide Covid vaccination campaign in January when it hopes virus shots will be approved and available. The government is worried that millions of French people will refuse coronavirus shots, even after a vaccine was found to be nearly 95 […]
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SYDNEY, Nov 17 — Australian authorities conducted mass tests today and about 4,000 people were confined to quarantine in the hope of stifling a new cluster of cases of the novel coronavirus after hopes it had been largely eradicated. The state of South Australia reimposed social distancing restrictions yesterday after […]
Here’s all you need to know about the vaccine frontrunners The global pandemic continues to break records as the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed as many as 660,905 new infections worldwide in one day (on Saturday). As per John Hopkins University, the worldwide number of infections stands at 54,299,446 while […]
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said the number of people killed was likely to rise after what it called a “gruesome” attack on the passenger bus in the Benishangul-Gumuz region. Gunmen in western Ethiopia killed at least 34 people in an attack on a bus on Saturday night, the national […]
Biden’s outreach to the vaccine manufacturers comes as the pandemic in US enters its “most dangerous phase” with US adding about 1 million new cases a week and deaths averaged 820 a day, a 33% increase in just two weeks according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Joe Biden’s scientific […]
In a tweet, President Trump said that the cases filed against the 2020 election have been filed by people who faced ‘horrible abuses’. US President Donald Trump has promised more lawsuits in the near future that will prove the unconstitutionality of the November presidential election. “Many of the court cases […]
North Korea had tested over 12,000 people and reported no confirmed cases of the coronavirus, as of early November, according to the World Health Organization. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a tightening of state emergency anti-coronavirus systems in the face of the worldwide pandemic, as he presided over […]
Modi reiterated the Indian resolve to take the battle to the enemy or extinguish the threat to India at source. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s friends and detractors know that there is nothing casual about the man from Gujarat. He practises his speeches, measures his words, then articulates the message for […]
The UK arm of the study is aiming to recruit 6,000 participants among a total of 30,000 people globally, scientists leading the UK trial said. Volunteers will be recruited at 17 sites across the UK. Johnson & Johnson launched a new late-stage trial in Britain on Monday to test a […]
Boris Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care in a London hospital earlier this year with the novel coronavirus, is well and does not have any symptoms, a spokesman for the prime minister said on Sunday. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who […]