Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], January 24 (ANI): The COVID-19 vaccine is 99 per cent safe and it is important to get vaccinated, said Telangana Health Minister Eatala Rajender while hoping everyone would step forward for it in the coming days.
Lisbon [Portugal], January 24 (ANI/Xinhua): COVID-19 deaths in Portugal passed the 10,000 mark Saturday after a record 274 fatalities were counted in the past 24 hours, according to the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
Ankara [Turkey], January 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkey's Health Ministry on Saturday confirmed 5,856 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number in the country to 2,424,328.
Moscow [Russia] January 23 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 20,921 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, down from 21,513 the day before, taking the tally to 3,698,273, the coronavirus response center said on Saturday.
Washington [US], January 23 (ANI): Chief Medical Advisor to the US President, Anthony Fauci said that the lack of truthfulness from the previous President Donald Trump's administration pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic "very likely" cost American lives.
Washington [US], January 23 (ANI/Sputnik): Nearly 200 members of the National Guard deployed to Washington, DC for the inauguration of President Joe Biden have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Brasilia [Brazil], January 23 (ANI): Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi by saying "dhanyavaad" for supplying the "sanjeevni booti" (the vaccine) against the coronavirus to the South American country, which has reported the second-highest death toll
Washington [US], January 23 (ANI): The coronavirus pandemic is expected to kill more than 600,000 people in the United States, President Joe Biden said on Friday.
Baghdad [Iraq], January 23 (ANI/Xinhua): The Iraqi Ministry of Health reported on Friday 685 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total nationwide infections to 612,092.
London [UK], January 23 (ANI/Sputnik): There is evidence that the new variant of the coronavirus, which was first detected in the UK last month, may be associated with a higher degree of mortality, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday.
Madrid [Italy], January 22 (ANI/Sputnik): Spain does not have enough of the right syringes and needles to extract the sixth dose from a Pfizer anti-coronavirus vaccine vial, resulting in thousands of doses going to waste, doctors have complained.