New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): US-based pharma company Pfizer has withdrawn an application for emergency-use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in India, the company spokesperson said.
New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): An advocate has written to Delhi High Court Chief Justice DN Patel seeking an extension of emergency parole to prisoners above 65 years of age and prisoners prone to COVID-19 infection.
New York [US], February 3 (ANI): India's Serum Institute will be supplying 1.1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Novavax to around 100 countries for approximately USD 3 per dose for the low and lower-middle-income countries, said Henrietta Fore, United Nation
Tokyo [Japan], February 3 (ANI): The G7 countries have condemned the military coup in Myanmar and demanded the military to end the state of emergency and restore power to the democratically-elected government.
Wellington [New Zealand], February 3 (ANI/Sputnik): New Zealand authorised emergency use of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, with a view to receiving the first shipment by April.
Washington [US], February 3 (ANI): A study finds that residential racial segregation emerged as a factor in COVID-19 infection and mortality rates across the nine months of the pandemic in the United States.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], February 2 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Tuesday flagged off 132 new ambulances which join the existing fleet of emergency medical services 108.
Bratislava [Slovakia], February 2 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of COVID-19 hospitalisations in Slovakia has reached 3,743, the highest number recorded since the beginning of the pandemic, the country's Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.
Tokyo [Japan], February 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday said he will extend the state of emergency for Tokyo and other regions hard hit by COVID-19 by one month until March 7.
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 2 (ANI): Citing tremendous global implication and grave emergency as well as serious consequences, the top government lawyer on Monday requested the Supreme Court to suspend December 24, 2020, Sindh High Court (SHC) order in the murder of Wall Street Journal's
Geneva [Switzerland], February 2 (ANI/Sputnik): The UK COVID-19 variant has now spread to 82 countries and the South African strain to nearly 40, Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 Technical Lead of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme, said on Monday.