ROME: Italy has hit its target of administering 500,000 COVID-19 vaccinations in a single day, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Friday. The...
ROME: Italy has hit its target of administering 500,000 COVID-19 vaccinations in a single day, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Friday. The...
MADRID: Spain is extending the gap between the first and second doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to 16 weeks for people aged under...
TOKYO: Japan's Nippon Yusen subsidiary NYK Cruises Co said on Friday that its luxury cruise ship "Asuka II" was returning to port after...
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden's younger dog, Major, is back at the White House after extra training - including spending time with some cats...
BERLIN: The German government could reach agreement on how to exempt people who have been fully vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 restrictions by...
Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE said on Friday they had applied to the European health regulator to extend the marketing authorization for...
SINGAPORE: Singapore urged its people to reduce social interactions and warned of tougher action on Friday if coronavirus infections rise further, a day...
BEIJING: A record-breaking wave of Chinese tourists will hit the road for the Labour Day break, and with borders still shut many will...
BANGKOK: Thailand will next month receive another 3.5 million doses of Sinovac Biotech's coronavirus vaccine, a senior health official said on Friday, as...
LONDON: The family of Britain's Captain Tom Moore, the World War Two veteran who lifted a nation's spirits during the pandemic, joined forces...
Singapore - Singapore will block entry to visitors with recent travel history to Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka from May 2 due...
JAKARTA - Indonesia's drug regulator on Friday approved the COVID-19 vaccine of China's Sinopharm, which it will use in a private immunisation scheme...
MOSCOW - Russia has produced the world's first batch - 17,000 doses - of COVID-19 vaccines for animals, its agricultural regulator said on...
BENGALURU/NEW DELHI - Several Indian states have run out of COVID-19 vaccines a day before a planned widening of a nationwide inoculation drive,...
BUDAPEST - Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday said parts of the service economy will reopen as scheduled on Saturday as the...
LONDON - AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said on Friday the drugmaker had not overpromised on the supply of COVID-19 vaccines around the...
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will return on Friday to one of the cities that helped win him the White House as he...
QARAOUN, Lebanon - Tonnes of dead fish have washed up on the banks of a lake on Lebanon's Litani river, engulfing a nearby...