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Sinovac's inactivated vaccine shows 91.25% efficacy in Turkey trials

VCG Image Chinese vaccine producer Sinovac's inactivated vaccine shows 91.25% efficacy in clinical trials in Turkey, a health official in the Middle Eastern country said on Thursday.Dr. Serhat

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US' South Carolina Governor tests positive for COVID-19

The Governor of the U.S. state of South Carolina, Henry McMaster tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday evening, his office said in a statement on Tuesday.The statement said the 73-year-old is "exper

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Slovak PM Matovic tests positive for coronavirus

Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic has tested positive for COVID-19, the government informed in a short press release Friday."For this reason, the prime minister has canceled all work programs," i

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Mike Pompeo enters self-quarantine

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech titled "Communist China and the Free World's Future" at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Yorba Linda, California, U.S., July 23, 2020.

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Uganda's COVID-19 cases hit 19,115, with 225 new cases

Uganda on Thursday registered 225 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases in the east African country to 19,115, said the Ministry of Health. /Getty Images Uganda on Thursday

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Donald Trump Jr. tests positive for coronavirus

Donald Trump Jr. tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week and is in isolation, his spokesperson confirmed to U.S. media, including Bloomberg and CNN, on Friday evening."Don tested positive a

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China's Tianjin reports four more confirmed COVID-19 cases

China'sTianjinMunicipality on Friday confirmed four more domestic COVID-19 cases.The patients, who had tested positive earlier for the virus, lived or worked in the Kan

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UK reports 501 COVID-19 deaths, 22,915 new cases

Britain recorded a further 501 deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test on Thursday, a decrease from 529 a day earlier, government figures showed. /Xinhua Britain recorded a further 5

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U.S. COVID-19 deaths surpass 250,000: Johns Hopkins University

U.S. COVID-19 deaths surpassed 250,000 on Wednesday, according to data released by Johns Hopkins University.Over 11.4 million infections have been reported in the country.Two more House of Representa

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Colombia's vice-president tests positive for coronavirus

FILE PHOTO: Marta Lucia Ramirez, Colombia's vice president. /Getty Images ColombianVice-President Marta Lucia Ramirez tested positive for coronavirus, the government announced on Friday.A stat

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Mexico struggles with precise method to count coronavirus deaths

02:28 Mexico is finding it a complex undertaking in a country where more than 800,000 people have tested positive. One of the biggest challenges is how to measure the number of people

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India's COVID-19 cases exceed 7 million: health ministry

India's total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases surpassed the seven million mark on Sunday, according to the latest data released by the health ministry on Sunday.India reported 74,383 new cases wit

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Chinese President Xi wishes U.S. President Trump and his wife Melania a speedy recovery

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan on Saturday wished U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, a speedy recovery from COVI

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This is who would be president under the U.S. line of succession

President Donald Trump, 74, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now in quarantine. He is receiving treatment at the Walter Reed Medical Center.Here's who would assume the presidency when a sit

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Libya reports 655 new COVID-19 cases

VCG Image The National Center for Disease Control of Libya on Sunday reported 655 new COVID-19 cases.The center said in a statement that it received a total of 2,756 suspected samples, of whic

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Africa's confirmed COVID-19 cases hit 846,311

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the African continent reached 846,311 on Monday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, a specialize

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India COVID-19 death toll rises to 32,063 as total cases reach 1,385,522

India's federal health ministry Sunday morning reported 705 more deaths and 48,661 COVID-19 cases during the past 24 hours, taking the number of deaths to 32,063 and t