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India’s new coronavirus infections hit a record peak for a fifth day on Monday as countries including Britain, Germany and the United States pledged to send urgent medical aid to help battle the crisis overwhelming its hospitals.

Doses of vaccines rejected as countries fine-tune their inoculation campaigns will go to poor countries where possible to counter a “shocking imbalance” in distribution, international health officials said on Friday.

On 21 July 2016 the temperature in Mitribah, north-west Kuwait, reached 53.9C (129F). This was, at the time, the third-highest reading reliably recorded on Earth, and the hottest ever for the whole of Asia.

A recent analysis by Duke University found that countries have already confirmed purchases for 3.8 billion doses and a further 5 billion doses were under negotiation or had been reserved as of late October. Of course, not all experimental immunisations will successfully make it through clinical trials. The US, followed by the EU and India, have so far secured the ...

October 20 (Quartz) - Nine months into the pandemic, Europe remains one of the regions worst affected by Covid-19. Ten of the 20 countries with the highest death count per million people are European. The other 10 are in the Americas. This includes the US, which has the highest number of confirmed cases and deaths in the world. Most of ...

July 2 (Daily Mirror/ Jamila Husain) - The European Commission in Brussels yesterday said that an initial list of countries which were selected for persons to be eligible to enter the EU countries when their borders re-open on July 1 were based on a list of criteria which includes the epidemiological situation of the country and this list will be ...

Geneva/Zurich, June 23 (Reuters) - Coronavirus cases are soaring in several major countries at the same time, with “worrying increases” in Latin America, especially Brazil, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. The world recorded more than 183,000 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the most in a single day since the outbreak started in December, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom ...

June 15 (Al Jazeera) - In December 2019, the coronavirus was seemingly confined to China. But, a few weeks later, the virus, which causes the illness known as COVID-19, became a global pandemic. The virus, which leads to a respiratory illness that can be transmitted from droplets of bodily fluids - such as mucus and saliva, has now been reported in ...

New Delhi, May 12 (TheIndianExpress) - India will launch its second phase of repatriation flights from May 16 to May 22 to bring back Indians stranded in 32 countries. This time, at least 149 flights will be deployed to bring back the Indian nationals from nations including France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, etc. A day after holding ...

Geneva/London, May 2 (Reuters) - Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being "on the look-out" for Covid-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday (May 1). WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also gave a robust defence of his and the agency's "timely" actions in declaring the new coronavirus an ...