Virus

Hong Kong to impose new virus restrictions to battle fourth wave

HONG KONG, China (AFP) -- Hong Kong will ban evening dining at restaurants and close fitness centres, the city's leader…

Sao Paulo to launch vaccination campaign in January: governor

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) -- Sao Paulo state, Latin America's coronavirus epicenter, will launch a Covid-19 vaccination campaign in January,…

Indonesia receives over a million Chinese Covid-19 vaccine doses

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Indonesia has received 1.2 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine made by China's Sinovac, officials said,…

Chinese Covid-19 vaccine maker gets $500 million funding boost

BEIJING, China (AFP) -- Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech has secured half a billion dollars in extra funding to produce…

Giuliani latest Covid-19 diagnosis in Trump inner circle

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US President Donald Trump said Sunday his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for…

Pandemic sends hunger rising in America, and children bear the brunt

by Chris Stein Agence France Presse Before the pandemic closed her middle school and US immigration agents deported her father…

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth to get Covid-19 vaccine ‘in weeks’: reports

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, after UK regulators…

Moscow starts inoculating vulnerable workers against coronavirus

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Moscow on Saturday began vaccinating workers at high risk of becoming infected with the coronavirus at…

Decreasing trend in PHL COVID cases noted; 934 add’l cases on Dec. 4, lowest rate in recent months

(Eagle News) – The Philippines recorded only 934 additional COVID-19 cases as of Friday, Dec. 4, representing the lowest number…

Coronavirus cases worldwide top 65 million: AFP tally

  PARIS, France (AFP) -- More than 65 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been detected worldwide, according to…

Iran surpasses one million Covid-19 cases

by Ahmad Parhizi TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) -- Iran said its novel coronavirus infections surpassed one million cases on Thursday, as…

Hackers targeting Covid-19 vaccine supply chain, IBM warns

by Daniel HOFFMAN NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- With multiple vaccines close to becoming available in a world gripped…

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