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BEIJING (AP) — In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the...

Health officials plan to ease restrictions in continuing care facilities “very soon” but are still trying to balance risk because some staff and residents are…

But it's still not going to be the biggest Jesus statue in the world.

Chinese vaccines ‘don’t have very high rates of protection’ its top official admits

The director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Gao Fu, said the vaccines, being used in at least 45 countries, 'don't have very high protection rates' against covid symptoms.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean authorities on Sunday backed the country's widespread use of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Chinese firm Sinovac after China's top disease official appeared to make conflicting statements about its efficacy.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil on Sunday recorded 1,803 new COVID-19 deaths, as a large study found that a Chinese vaccine that has become the linchpin in the country's vaccination campaign is 50.7% effective against the infectious new homegrown variant known as P1.

On the banks of the Amazon River, in a village without electricity or drinking water, Andrea Rodrigo makes the yuca flour that her family sells in markets along Peru’s remote borders with Brazil and Colombia. The 21-year-old Peruvian woman and seven of her neighbors recently paddled for half an hour down the vast river to…

MUMBAI: Fresh lockdowns and curfews were imposed on tens of millions of people from India to Argentina on Saturday, as Covid-19 infections surged again and vaccine roll-outs were hampered by...

JOHOR BARU: Police have arrested 36 people in several states over its investigation into the meat cartel that makes fake halal labels and certificates.

Gabriel Martinelli showed exactly why he is so highly-rated against Sheffield United and now must be given a chance to start for Arsenal in Thursday's crucial Europa League clash against Slavia Prague

The number of COVID-19 patients under 40 in intensive care in Brazil surpassed older groups last month, a researcher said Sunday, amid a deadly surge driven partly by a new coronavirus variant.

It seems top welterweight Vicente Luque who is coming fresh off a win to former champion Tyron Woodley is not willing to fight his teammates.

China's top disease control official says the country is considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines to further boost vaccine efficacy

Two disposable gloves, tied together, filled with hot water has come up as tool to provide comfort to patients infected with coronavirus who are spending days in isolation, away from

Covid-19: Ireland removes three countries from hotel quarantine list
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Three countries have been removed from the Republic of Ireland's mandatory hotel quarantine list.
Irish health minister Stephen Donnelly has revoked the current designations for Albania, Israel and St Lucia.
However, travellers are still obliged to quarantine at home for 14 days, unless they obtained a "not detected" PCR test on day five after arrival.
Mr Donnelly said the three countries had experienced "a substantially improved epidemiological situation".
He added that in the coming days, he intends to designate a number of additional states, "so as to ensure that Ireland is protected as far as possible from importation of variants of concern, which pose a significant risk to our fight against this disease".

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Iran says Natanz nuclear site hit by terrorism - TV
An incident at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility on Sunday was caused by an act of "nuclear terrorism", the country's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said, according to state TV, adding that Tehran reserves the right to take action against the perpetrators. Israel's Kan public radio cited intelligence sources, whose nationality it did not disclose, as saying that Israel's Mossad spy agency had carried out a cyber attack at the site.
French government disgusted by attack on Muslim centre
The French government on Sunday condemned the defacing of an Islamic cultural centre in western France with Islamaphobic slogans, and said an attack on Muslims was an attack on the Republic. The tags, daubed on the side a building used as a prayer room in the city of Rennes, were found shortly before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins in France on Tuesday.

‘This crisis is different’: the dramatic rebound in the global economy
By 2024, the IMF now believes, the US economy is likely to be stronger than it had predicted before the pandemic. For most advanced economies, it says, there will be only limited scars from the crisis.
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From an economic point of view, it is almost as if the last year was just a bad dream.
As recently as October, the IMF was warning that coronavirus will cause “lasting damage” to living standards across the world with any recovery likely to be “long, uneven and uncertain”.
Yet the forecast it released last week is very different. By 2024, the IMF now believes, the US economy is likely to be stronger than it had predicted before the pandemic. For most advanced economies, it says, there will be only limited scars from the crisis.