Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, Health Ministry Spokeswoman Sima Lari put the death toll from COVID-19 in Iran at 81,063, saying the disease has taken the lives of 122 patients over the past 24 hours. She said the total number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the country has exceeded 2,966,364 […]
“We are against the politicization of the #COVID19 pandemic,” says Galina Kulikova, first deputy chairperson of the Russia-China Friendship Association.
The US will provide Covid-19 vaccinations for 550,000 South Korean service members who work in close contact with American forces, President Joe Biden announced Friday. South Korean President Moon Jae-in thanked Biden at a joint news conference on Friday at the White House and said the move extended the two countries’ alliance “to the field […]
To speed up the detection of COVID-19 cases, rapid antigen testing (ART) will be conducted on all individuals who seek treatment with symptoms, said Health Minister Gan Kim Yong on Friday (May 14). This is on top of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests that are being conducted on all people with possible COVID-19 symptoms such as […]
President of Iran Hassan Rouhani unveiled plans to vaccinate 13 million high-risk people eligible for the coronavirus vaccine by July 22. In comments at a meeting of the Administration’s Economic Coordination Headquarters on Sunday, the president said 13 million people in the priority groups will be vaccinated against COVID-19 by July 22. He also noted […]
Dr Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his desperately ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works. Like other doctors across India, which on Monday (Apr 26) set another record for new coronavirus infections for the […]
The side effects of the coronavirus pandemic have left an indelible mark on all walks of life. But one group particularly feels lost and left behind, writes Salome Gongadze. I am not the first person to ever sit in a dark room watching a stock market index arrow plunge down. There is something a little […]
Some 380 more Iranians have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours bringing the total deaths to 68,746, Iran’s Health Ministry announced on Friday. 22,904 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, 3,423 of whom were hospitalized, the ministry said. It added that with the 380 […]
TOP HEADLINES · Europe has passed the tragic milestone of 1 million coronavirus deaths. The World Health Organization warned that the world was “in a critical point of the pandemic,” with infections rising exponentially despite global efforts to combat the virus. · The UK is now offering a first shot of the coronavirus vaccine to over-45s as […]
Investing inequitable production and access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments, is among five “vital changes” the world needs to make this year to address the inequalities the pandemic has exacerbated, the UN’s top health official said, marking World Health Day on Wednesday. “While we have all undoubtedly been impacted by the pandemic, the poorest […]
