Coronavirus

India reported 96,982 new coronavirus infections overnight, taking the overall tally of cases to 12.7 million. This was found in the data released by health ministry on Tuesday. The country reported 446 deaths, taking the total to…

Russia has registered the world’s first vaccine against COVID-19 for animals, the country’s agriculture safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Wednesday. Russia already has three coronavirus vaccines for humans, the most well-known of…

Israel is gradually returning to normalcy as the country’s economy began reopening after almost half the population received coronavirus vaccine shots. Part of the country opened for business on Sunday with shops available to all and…

Nearly one year after theatres were forced to close by the onset of the Covid pandemic, prime minister Boris Johnson has delivered the first indication that auditoria could reopen. Speaking in a daily briefing, Johnson said so-called…

Israel plans to reopen restaurants around March 9 and restart tourism with Cyprus as part of a gradual return to normality thanks to a COVID-19 vaccination campaign, officials said on Sunday. With more than 41% of Israelis having…

The COVID-19 pandemic dominated discussion at the African Union summit almost a year after the first case was reported in Egypt. Although the death toll is relatively low, about 4 percent of deaths worldwide, many countries now face a…

The President, Entertainment Database and a Nigerian Flutist, Omatshola Iseli, popularly known as “Tee Mac”, on Thursday called on the Federal Government to provide COVID-19 palliatives to Nigerian entertainers. Tee Mac, who made this…

Two people in southern England have tested positive for the South African variant of the coronavirus without having any links to people who have travelled recently. Residents in parts of Surrey, to the south west of London, will now be…

Health officials in the United States have announced that the new South Africa variant of the coronavirus has been detected in two people, posing yet another public health challenge in a country already losing more than 3,000 people to…

New Zealand’s first case of coronavirus in the community in months has been identified as the South African variant, health minister Chris Hipkins said on Monday. The woman, who recently returned from Europe, tested positive on Saturday,…