Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 1 (ANI): Vaccination of Chinese nationals in Sri Lanka with the Sinopharm vaccine is set to start from next Monday. This comes after a consignment of Sinopharm coronavirus vaccines given by Beijing reached Colombo on Wednesday, the Colombo Page reported.
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): India reported 72,330 new COVID-19 cases and 459 related deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the union health ministry on Thursday.
Maryland [US], April 1 (ANI): US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has found a quality issue at a plant in Baltimore, Maryland helping manufacture its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. The mix-up has said to have ruined as many as 15 million potential doses of vaccine.
Jodhpur (Rajasthan) [India], April 1 (ANI): Heatwave conditions have intensified in the Jodhpur district of Rajasthan with locals feeling like "May-June has arrived".
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 1 (ANI): Veteran music composer Bappi Lahiri has been admitted to Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, the singer's spokesperson confirmed.
Brasilia [Brazil], April 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of people who have died of the coronavirus in Brazil has increased by record 3,869 to 321,515 within the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said on late Wednesday.
London [UK], April 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Another 4,052 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 4,345,788, according to official figures released Wednesday.
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): Dispelling doubts about reports of people contracting coronavirus after the second dose of vaccine, Director and Medical Superintendent, RML Hospital Dr Rana Anil Kumar Singh on Wednesday said after inoculation no death has been reported and severity of COVI
Ankara [Turkey], April 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkey on Wednesday confirmed 39,302 new COVID-19 cases, including 1,401 symptomatic patients, as the total number of positive cases in the country reached 3,317,182, according to its health ministry.
Paris [France], April 1 (ANI): French President Emmanuel Macron has extended light lockdown from 19 areas to all over the country for the next four weeks amid the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kuwait City [Kuwait], April 1 (ANI/Xinhua): The Kuwaiti Health Ministry reported on Wednesday 1,282 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total infections in the country to 232,103.
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): Reacting to increase in COVID cases in the country specifically Delhi, Director and Medical Superintendent of RML Hospital Dr (Prof) Rana Anil Kumar Singh on Wednesday said that compromised Corona appropriate behaviour among people is the single largest reas