New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Russia is getting requests from Indian states and companies for the supply of Sputnik V vaccines, said Russian Deputy Envoy Roman Babushkin, adding that "all proposals" are being studied "very carefully".
Mexico City [Mexico], May 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Mexico intends to conduct clinical trials of vaccines against COVID-19 developed by China's Walvax and France's Sanofi, Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said.
Washington DC [US], May 25 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States is not assured of being fully safe from the coronavirus even with its high rate in vaccination unless it extends the global fight to defeat the variants from the scourge, US Agency for International Development (USAID) COVID-19 Task
Brussels [Belgium], May 25 (ANI/Sputnik): European Council President Charles Michel asked the European leaders to hold a discussion of the issues of Belarus and Russia without electronic devices to ensure confidentiality, Michel's spokesperson Barend Leyts said on Monday.
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 24 (ANI): As COVID-19 vaccines are unavailable to most of the population in Pakistan due to private sales and higher prices, leading critics believe that the country is making inoculations only for the wealthy.
Moscow [Russia], May 24 (ANI/Sputnik): Lithuania has opened a criminal probe into hijacking and kidnapping following the Ryanair plane emergency landing in Minsk, pilots were interviewed upon their arrival in Vilnius, Lithuania's police commissioner general, Renatas Pozela, told the New York
Moscow [Russia], May 24 (ANI): The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Panacea Biotec, one of the leading pharmaceutical producers in India, on Monday launched the production of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.
Athens [Greece], May 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The forest fire that has continued for almost a week west of Athens has now receded to scattered isolated hotbeds, the Greek Fire Department said on Monday.
Ayase [Japan], May 24 (ANI/Sputnik): About 9,000 houses are left without power in the city of Ayase in Japan's Kanagawa prefecture, the national NHK broadcaster reported on Monday.
Rome [Italy], May 24 (ANI/Sputnik): Rescuers pulled out 12 bodies from the debris of a cable car crash in the north of Italy, and a total number of victims could be as high as 13, a representative of the mountain rescue services told Sputnik.
Tokyo [Japan], May 24 (ANI/Sputnik): A major coronavirus vaccination centre that can provide shots to up to 10,000 people a day has opened in Japan with the support of Self-Defense Forces (SDF), a Sputnik correspondent reports.
Brussels [Belgium], May 24 (ANI/Sputnik): President of the European Council Charles Michel called for an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) probe into an emergency landing of a Ryanair passenger plane in Minsk Airport over a bomb threat that later turned out to be fake.