07:03 Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China has taken comprehensive and strict measures to contain the virus' transmission. Now, the pandemic is under cont
HO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus./Getty Images Confusion and complacency in addressing COVID-19 means the pandemic is a long way from over, but it can be brought under control in
A staff member takes out samples of the COVID-19 inactivated vaccine at a vaccine production plant of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) in Beijing, China, April 11, 2020. /Xinhua
A medical staff prepares to take COVID-19 test for the public. /CFP Researchers fear that the U.S. acted "too slowly" in monitoring the novel coronavirus due to its fragmented health system, a
Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed gives a press conference in Cairo, Egypt on January 24, 2021. /CFPEgypt on Thursday announced that it is to manufacture up to 80 mil
The Finnish government plans to gradually begin to ease the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, Prime Minister Sanna Marin told a news conference on Friday.She added, howe
The Russian Health Ministry has authorized phase 1 and 2 clinical trials of EpiVacCorona-N, one more coronavirus vaccine developed by the Vector research center, accord
India’s prime minister received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the country hit another peak Thursday with 126,789 new cases reported in the past 24 hours.“V
A syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. /CFP The Japanese government is considering giving athletes attending the coming Tokyo Olympics priority for vaccination against COVID-19, Japan's Kyo
China's foreign exchange reserves fell by 1.09 percent from previous month at the end of March, 2021. /VCG China's foreign exchange reserves shrank to $3.17 trillion at the end of March from $
00:54 U.S. President Joe Biden visited and talked with workers at a COVID-19 vaccination site in Alexandria, Virginia. He urged Americans to get vaccinated and warned them not to let t
07:25 Will the virus SARS-CoV-2 become endemic like the flu, or can it be eliminated with vaccine-induced herd immunity?Herd immunity is when a large part of the population is immune t
France reported on Saturday that 5,273 people were in intensive care units (ICU) for COVID-19, a rise of 19 from the previous day, as the country entered its third nati
Members of the medical staff move a patient infected with COVID-19, in her bed, at the intensive care unit of the Andre-Gregoire intercommunal hospital, in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, on the ou
00:44 Sao Paulo sped up its efforts to empty old graves to make room for the surging numbers of COVID-19 deaths, as the city registers a record number of daily burials from the pandemi
01:16 French doctors and nurses are overwhelmed as the country faces another spike in new COVID-19 infections.With the president having announced more restrictions to help contain the
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro overhauled his government Monday, changing six cabinet members including the foreign, defense, and justice ministers, the administration said in a statement.The far