Ankara [Turkey], August 30 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkey on Sunday confirmed 17,332 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 6,346,881, according to its health ministry.
Washington DC [US], August 29 (ANI): The COVID-19 vaccine made by China's Sinopharm was less effective than others at preventing infection, hospitalization and death, according to a new study.
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], August 29 (ANI): Kerala confirmed 29,836 new Covid-19 infections on Sunday, the state health ministry department said in a bulletin.
New Delhi [India], August 29 (ANI): India reported 45,083 new COVID-19 cases and 460 deaths in the last 24 hours said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday.
London [UK] August 28 (ANI/FENA): Patients suffering from the Delta variant of the coronavirus are twice as likely to need hospital treatment compared to the people infected with the Alpha strain of the deadly virus that was previously prevalent in the UK.
Moscow [Russia] August 28 (ANI/Xinhua): Russia confirmed 19,492 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 6,863,541, the official monitoring and response center said Saturday.
New Delhi [India], August 28 (ANI): Highlighting the "urgent" need to bring back children to schools and citing that "younger children are least at risk" of being infected by COVID-19, a group of over 55 doctors, academicians, and medical professionals have written to the chief ministers
London [UK], August 28 (ANI): A new study has revealed that the side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab against COVID-19 in 12-15-year-olds at high risk of complications from the infection are likely to be mild to moderate and clear up quickly because of certain coexisting conditions.
New Delhi [India], August 28 (ANI): A single dose of Covaxin for previously COVID-19 infected individuals is equivalent to two doses of the vaccine in infection-naive individuals, suggests the pilot study of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
Seoul [South Korea], August 28 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea reported 1,793 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Friday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 246,951.
New Delhi [India], August 28 (ANI): India reported 46,759 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country's tally to 3,26,49,947, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], Aug 28 (ANI): Another month of extremely weak international air passenger volumes continued amid an unrelenting rise in Covid-19 infections across Asia and elsewhere, preliminary July traffic figures released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) show.