A top federal epidemiologist who issued an early coronavirus warning is leaving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a potential sign that the agency’s new director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, is beginning to impose her own vision.
A third wave of COVID-19 outbreak is inevitable in India given the higher levels of the circulating virus, said Principal Scientific Advisor to India's Federal Government K. Vijay Raghavan on Wednesday.
The Indian government on Friday permitted the import of oxygen concentrators for personal use.
Foreign ministers from China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh held a meeting on coping with COVID-19 on Tuesday via video link.
The WHO and the UNICEF are procuring equipment and supplies, including oxygen concentrators, COVID-19 testing machines, and personal protective kits. The WHO is also helping to set up mobile hospital units and is providing for laboratories.
Those who were infected at least three weeks later were between 38 percent and 49 percent less likely to pass the virus on to people living in the same household, compared with those who had not been vaccinated, according to the study.
The third batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government was handed over to the Pakistani side during a ceremony here on Monday.
The ongoing second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India is projected to come to its peak in the middle of May, local media reported on Sunday.
By air, by train and by road, India is scrambling to move large quantities of medical oxygen to hospitals in its capital New Delhi and other areas hit hard by a record surge of COVID-19.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office said it won't reveal what it told the U.S. Justice Department about COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes, partly because doing so would be an "invasion of personal privacy.”
Leaders and observers worldwide have said that with openness, solidarity and a commitment to a shared future, the world will ride out the COVID-19 pandemic and address fundamental challenges of the time to make the planet safer and growth more sustainable.
Deaths also rose for the fifth straight week, pushing the global death toll to over three million, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing.
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd is 80 percent effective against death from the disease, showed a recent real-world study in Chile.
China is expected to produce more than 3 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses this year, an official said Tuesday.
The global COVID-19 death toll rose to 3,001,892, with a total of more than 140 million cases worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.
A timeline of how China has released timely information, shared experience, and advanced international exchange and cooperation since the onset of the pandemic.
The U.S. CDC said its analysis "did not find any safety issues or reason for concern," recommending healthcare providers continue to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine following reports of adverse reactions to the shot.
Parts of Europe on Monday edged further toward normalcy as the situation improved in their countries despite concerns over the third wave of coronavirus on the European continent.
A new COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinopharm has recently been approved for clinical trials.
From Monday, non-essential shops will reopen and pubs and restaurants will reopen outdoors at a time when Britain moves to step two of the roadmap out of the COVID-19 lockdown. Meanwhile, hairdressers and barbers as well as gyms can reopen, along with zoos, theme parks, libraries and community centers.