covid-19

As COVID-19 cases fall, more states act to end mask mandates
More state leaders acted to strike down mask mandates on Thursday, citing a decline in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. In Maryland, ...

Pakistan administers record 2.24 million COVID-19 vaccines in a single day-
By PTI ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has administered a record 2.24 million vaccines in a single day, a hopeful milestone for the ...

SK Bioscience to develop COVID-19 Omicron-specific vaccine-
By ANI SEOUL [South Korea]: As the Omicron COVID-19 variant, which is now the most dominant strain in the world, rapidly ...

Sweden ends COVID-19 testing as pandemic restrictions lifted-
By Associated Press STOCKHOLM: Sweden has halted wide-scale testing for COVID-19 even among people showing symptoms of an infection, putting ...

Global COVID-19 case counts decline 17% in the last week-
By Associated Press GENEVA: The World Health Organization says coronavirus case counts fell 17% worldwide over the last week compared ...

Indonesia starts testing homegrown Covid-19 vaccine on humans-
By AFP SURABAYA: Indonesia began testing a homegrown Covid-19 vaccine on humans Wednesday after getting the green light from the ...

Possibility of new COVID-19 variants really high, warns WHO-
By Associated Press GENEVA: Describing the new COVID-19 variants as the “wild card”, a top World Health Organisation official has ...

Mask mandates eased across US as COVID-19 hospitalizations drop below 100,000
Several states announced Wednesday that they would ease mask mandates as the surge of the omicron variant of the coronavirus ...