New York: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday announced the signing of an advance purchase agreement securing up to 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine, under ...
New York: The COVID-19 pandemic “will not end for anyone, until it ends for everyone”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, advocating for an equitable and gl ...
New York: The United Nations Secretary-General on Wednesday welcomed the announcement by President Joe Biden that the United States will re-engage with the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Moscow/Sputnik: China has sent 500,000 doses of its Sinopharm vaccine to Pakistan for free and pledged to send 1.1 million more doses by late February, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mah ...
London: Mask-wearing is associated with better control of COVID-19 transmission in the community, according to a study that links data from a survey of more than 300,000 people in the US ...
New York: A “me-first approach” to COVID-19 vaccines on the part of some countries and manufacturers is putting equitable access to these lifesaving treatments at risk, the he ...
Washington/Sputnik: The number of cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the United States on Monday surpassed 24 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Moscow/Sputnik: A 36-year-old man managed to live inside Chicago’s O’hare International Airport for three months claiming to be too afraid to fly because of COVID-19, media re ...
Dhaka: Bangladesh recorded 16 COVID-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, media reports said on Monday.
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