New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland will go into a three-day lockdown beginning just before midnight Sunday following the discovery of three unexplained coronavirus cases in the community. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the move after an urgent meeting with other top lawmakers in the Cabinet. She said they decided to take a cautious approach until […]
The Australian state of Victoria will lockdown for five days in a bid to curb the spread of a more contagious coronavirus variant; meaning the Australian Open will go without fans. Authorities have identified 13 new cases tied to an employee of a quarantined hotel in Melbourne; who tested positive for the so-called United Kingdom […]
Pakistan ranks 3rd in Govt. support provided to SMEs to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, according to a recently launched “Impact of COVID-19 on SMEs” Survey Report conducted on-line by SMEDA, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), and Asian Productivity Organization (APO). The survey was conducted by ADBI and APO in other countries from the region […]
Western Australia has imposed a five-day lockdown in metropolitan Perth, the Peel Region, and the state’s South West amid fears a hotel quarantine worker who has tested positive to Covid-19 has contracted the highly contagious UK variant. The security guard, aged in his 20s, was working at Sheraton Four Points Hotel where four people in […]
Bangladesh has started its COVID-19 vaccination drive in the capital Dhaka, with plans to administer more than 30 million doses over the next few months. The first batch of people received the first shot of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine at Dhaka’s Kurmitola General Hospital on Wednesday.“We have vaccinated five persons with this initiative today. I’ve talked […]
Moderna has said it believes its COVID-19 vaccine is effective against new variants of the coronavirus, although it will test a new booster shot aimed at the strain discovered in South Africa after tests showed the antibody response could be reduced. The United States-based biotech company said in a press release on Monday that the […]
The United States has confirmed more than 25 million cases of coronavirus – the most in the world – as newly inaugurated President Joe Biden’s chief of staff accused Donald Trump’s administration of failing to provide states with a plan to administer much-needed vaccines. The US accounts for more than a quarter of all global […]
The government has allowed another vaccine against Covid-19 under “emergency use authorization” and given a go-ahead to a local pharmaceutical company for the import and distribution of the Russian-developed Sputnik V, an official confirmed on Saturday. With the fresh decision, the official said, Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine; became the third to be approved for […]
The coronavirus variant that has swept Britain and beyond in recent months could be more deadly as well as more transmissible, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday. The sobering news came as the UK sees record deaths from Covid-19; following a surge in cases and hospitalizations since the variant was first identified in southeast […]
Hungary’s drug regulator has given initial approval for use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines; Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff says, confirming media reports. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto was traveling to Moscow for talks about the Sputnik V vaccine later on Thursday; Gergely Gulyas told a briefing on Thursday. If […]
