New York: In a major milestone in the fight against deadly diseases, United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners announced on Tuesday, the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine st ...

Beijing/Sputnik: Local authorities in central China's Hebei province have sent over 20,000 residents from 15 villages to centralized quarantine centers, as part of their efforts to cu ...

Moscow/Sputnik: Pramila Jayapal, a member of the US House of Representatives, said on Monday that she contracted COVID-19 after being locked down in the same room with a number of Republi ...

New York: There needs to be a “collective commitment” to get vaccinations underway worldwide for health workers and others who are at high risk of catching COVID-19, within th ...

Moscow/Sputnik: There is no evidence to suggest that the newly-detected Japanese mutation made the coronavirus more aggressive, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adh ...

Moscow/Sputnik: France has detected 180 active clusters of the pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus since November 2020, Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie told France Bleu broadcaster on ...

Moscow/Sputnik: The first round of World Health Organization consultations on granting Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V authorization for emergency use will take place in the latter thi ...

Tokyo/Sputnik: Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) on Sunday confirmed that it has discovered a new strain of the coronavirus among four persons who arrived fro ...

Beijing: A Chinese vaccine expert has claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine which has been rolled out by the nation as the 'most unsafe vaccine in the world'.