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Read more about US will be able to vaccinate all adults by end of May, says Joe Biden on Business Standard. President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the US expects to take delivery of enough coronavirus vaccines for all adult Americans by the end of May, two months earlier than anticipated, as his administration announced that drugmaker Merck & Co. will help
Read more about US National Institute of Health to research on Covid-19 impact on children on Business Standard. About 3.17 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic
Read more about First Covid-19 vaccination begins in Africa: World Health Organisation on Business Standard. The first Covid-19 vaccination campaigns in Africa using doses provided by Covax, a global initiative for equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, began in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, the WHO said
Iranian health authorities issued a warning over a 'fourth wave' of the COVID-19 epidemic, after registering more than 100 deaths in 24 hours for the first time since early January, state TV reported. "The death of 108 patients of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours is sounding the alarm of the fourth wave of the disease," Sima Sadat Lari, spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education, said at her daily briefing on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. The new daily figure takes the death toll of the epidemic to 60,181 in Iran. Between Sunday and Monday, the ministry reported 8...
Read more about France reports 4,703 new cases of coronavirus, 375 deaths in 24 hours on Business Standard. France has recorded a total of 86,803 coronavirus-related fatalities as of Monday, with 375 new deaths registered in the past 24 hours, according to health authorities