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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he has tested positive for Covid-19 on but will continue his official...
Published 01 Mar, 2022 07:29pm
The palace said she spoke with incoming ambassadors from Andorra and Chad.
Published 01 Mar, 2022 06:51pm
Covid has hit South Africa harder than any other country on the continent, making the drop in deaths all the more remarkable.
Published 01 Mar, 2022 06:04pm
Indonesia has extended the shelf life of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine to nine months, as nearly six million doses...
Published 01 Mar, 2022 05:22pm
Valneva committed to supplying the Gulf kingdom with one million doses in an advance purchase agreement last year.
Published 01 Mar, 2022 04:37pm
As public schools around the US lift Covid-19 mask mandates, parents are divided over the issue, with nearly 43 per...
Published 01 Mar, 2022 03:17pm
Valneva expects to deliver the first shipments of its VLA2001 vaccine to the kingdom at the end of March.
Published 01 Mar, 2022 02:15pm
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Published 01 Mar, 2022 12:36pm
In addition, 18 more fatalities have also been confirmed
Published 01 Mar, 2022 11:24am
Another 489 people recover.
Published 01 Mar, 2022 11:20am
Says there is still still “no need to open the country's doors at the peak of the global pandemic”.
Published 01 Mar, 2022 10:17am
Appeals to the public “not to fall prey to rumours to avoid unnecessary fears being stirred”.
Published 01 Mar, 2022 09:24am
The protein-based vaccine continued to provide protection and maintained overall efficacy of 82.7pc over a six-month period.
Published 01 Mar, 2022 08:30am
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Published 01 Mar, 2022 07:03am
Airlines can lose their slots at some congested airports if they do not use them at least 80 per cent of the time.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 10:51pm
The total number of cases has risen to 565,108 and the death toll is 8,070.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 09:55pm
Unopened vials of the one-shot vaccine can be stored and transported at two to eight degrees Celsius for 11 months.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 09:12pm
Announcement made by EU Commission head Ursula von der Leyen.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 07:06pm
Safia Ibrahim’s business was in trouble. Covid-19 had taken hold in Somaliland, in the Horn of Africa. The...
Published 28 Feb, 2022 06:20pm
Vaccinating 70 per cent of the population in every country in the world against Covid-19 by mid-2022 has been the...
Published 28 Feb, 2022 05:33pm
Published 28 Feb, 2022 04:42pm
China is unlikely to join the majority of countries in approving foreign-made vaccines based on mRNA tech.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 04:04pm
Japan this week will ease tough coronavirus border controls that have been criticised as xenophobic and damaging to...
Published 28 Feb, 2022 03:17pm
“We can't wait to see you,” says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 02:39pm
"We need to reduce people's movements to some extent,” says the health secretary.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 01:23pm
More than 86pc of the country's population of more than 51m are fully vaccinated and around 61pc have received booster shots.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 12:04pm
The country has also recorded less than 1,000 new cases for the second day.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 10:49am
There are 35,898 active cases while the number of critical patients has fallen to 1,052.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 10:25am
Around 300 deaths have been recorded in the past week, with the majority unvaccinated residents.
Published 28 Feb, 2022 09:15am
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