Washington, January 2 (IANS): In yet another grim milestone, the overall number of coronavirus cases in the US, the hardest-hit country in the world by the pandemic, has surpassed the 20 million mark, according
Geneva, January 1 (IANS): The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted emergency use validation for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, opening the door for countries to expedite their own regulatory appro
New York, January 1 (IANS) Human activities such as groundwater removal and other natural causes are leading to sinking of the Earth's surface and the phenomenon will affect 635 million people, mostly in As
Beijing, January 1 (IANS): China announced that it had granted conditional marketing authorisation for the first Covid-19 vaccine.
The inactivated vaccine, which got approval from the National Medical Produc
London, January 1 (IANS): Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB), an institution accused and blamed by political leadership for taking political maneuvering of the government and using it to nab to
Sanaa (Yemen), December 31 (AP): Yemen's prime minister renewed accusations on Thursday that the country's Shiite rebels and Iran were responsible for the deadly explosion at the airport in the southern
Washington, Decemebr 31 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 82.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.80 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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United Nations, December 31 (IANS): More than 10 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition i
London, December 31 (IANS): The UK government has announced more areas, including Leicester City in England, will enter Tier Four, the highest level of Covid-19 restrictions in the country, meaning an additiona
Islamabad, December 31 (IANS): The shrine of a Hindu saint has been vandalized by an aggressive mob in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The incident took place in Teri area of Karak district.
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New York, December 30 (IANS): A nurse in California tested positive for Covid-19 eight days after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine approved for emergency use in the US.
Matthew W., 45, talked a
Beijing, December 30 (AP): A Chinese drugmaker said Wednesday its coronavirus vaccine was found to be 79.3 per cent effective at preventing infection in preliminary data from the final round of testing, moving
Washington, December 30 (IANS): Anthony Fauci, America's top expert of infectious diseases, has said people in the US, currently the world's hardest-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, have to assume that the
Washington, December 30 (IANS): US President-elect Joe Biden has criticised the Donald Trump-led administration's distribution of coronavirus vaccines, saying it was falling behind schedule.
Biden said t
Washington, December 30 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 81.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.78 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Washington, December 30 (IANS): US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine against the novel coronavirus.
According to the Biden-Harris transition team, Harris w
Tehran, December 29 (AP): The first study of the safety and effectiveness of a coronavirus vaccine in Iran began Tuesday, state TV reported, with dozens due to receive the domestically developed shot even as de
Zagreb (Croatia), December 29 (AP): A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, causing major damage to homes and other buildings in a town southeast of the capital. A girl was killed in the quake and a
Kathmandu, December 29 (PTI): Chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party's rival faction Madhav Kumar Nepal said on Tuesday that the party could still be united if Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli was willin
PHNOM PENH, DECEMBER 29 (IANS): Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday that the country's first community outbreak of the novel coronavirus was over after no locally transmitted cases was reported