02:38 Public workers around the U.S are being given an ultimatum: get vaccinated or face regular COVID-19 testing.The new directives have been issued as the seven-day average of new cas
The Indian government said on Saturday two doses of COVID-19 vaccine provide around 98 percent protection from death due to the disease, while one dose gives nearly 92
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is likely to push Angela Merkel to drop her efforts to impose COVID-19 restrictions on British travelers as the German chancellor make
IOC president Thomas Bach will arrive in Japan on July 8, with just over two weeks to go until the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.The IOC announced on its official website that Bach will go t
01:15 Venezuela is working to speed up its vaccination campaign against COVID-19, as people across the country line up to get the limited number of doses available.So far, the only vacc
The United States has administered 317,117,797 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning and distributed 379,003,410 doses, the U.S. Centers for
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said that 3 million people in the Southeast Asian nation have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine so far.Su Sa
Urging PM Modi to get his beard groomed, a tea seller named Anil More from the Baramati region of Maharashtra has sent the Indian head of government INR 100 ($1.50) to
01:00 With only five percent of adults fully vaccinated, Indian health workers cross rivers on foot to get COVID-19 vaccine shots to more remote rural towns. Take a look at India's inoc
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has eased travel recommendations for more than 110 countries and territories, including Japan, from its highest "Level 4" rating that had dis
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that the Indian federal government would provide COVID-19 vaccines free of charge to all adults from later this month in an effort to turn the tide
President Bashar al-Assad was among those to be vaccinated after Syria received a first shipment of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, Russia's Interfax news agency re
04:18 Native American tribes across the U.S. are celebrating a vaccination success story in the battle against COVID-19.Despite being among the hardest hit, about 70 percent of the coun
Japan started vaccinating Tokyo Games-bound athletes on Tuesday with officials saying that about 200 athletes were vaccinated with the BioNTech COVID-19 shot at a training center on the first day of
The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. /Getty Images The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined other partners in calling upon governments to finance a
VCG More than 133,000 people in Rwanda have been fully vaccinated as the country continues its mass inoculation efforts.According to the country's health ministry, the number of persons that h
A further five deaths and 1,979 COVID cases have been reported in the UK in the latest daily figures. It compares with the four fatalities within 28 days of a positive test and 1,926 cases record