COVID-19

Outside the Olympic bubble, Japan hit new virus records, with the capital accounting for a large portion of the numbers.

The Americans started the day two golds behind China but the women's basketball and volleyball titles and US track cyclist Jennifer Valente's omnium victory put them top of the final table.

Police said the incident came to light when Saharkar's younger daughter tried to kill herself by jumping into the sea Wednesday.

Google last week made campuses off-limits to unvaccinated employees and extend its global work-from-home option through October 18.

Overwhelmed mortuaries are renting refrigerated containers to store bodies, while medical and other frontline workers are exhausted.

Showrunner Chris Van Dusen teased that the first couple of episodes "are looking great."

Indonesia's coronavirus death toll topped 100,000 on Wednesday as the country struggles to control the spread of the Delta variant.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but a lot of opinions don't feel based in anything except fear or propaganda."

The EU has now passed the vaccination rate of the United States -- which remains on 49.7 percent.

The government also announced Tuesday it would reintroduce overtime bonuses for hospital workers

Major cities including Beijing have now tested millions of residents while cordoning off residential compounds and placing close contacts under quarantine.

China has also been confronted with a worsening resurgence of Covid-19.

Demonstrators held up signs saying "Freedom" and "No to the corona dictatorship", with few masks seen among them.

Inaccurate information about vaccines is especially dangerous at a time when uptake of the shots has slowed in the United States

The surge in cases across America has left the early vaccine adopters angry at those who have so far opted against the jab.

The UK singled out France due to the government's concern over the "persistent presence" of the Beta variant

Tech titan Facebook put out similar word on Wednesday, saying that as its offices re-open, only vaccinated workers will be welcomed.

Pfizer has launched clinical studies on a possible third dose of the vaccine

Those travelling from an amber list country, which includes most of Europe and the US, who are not fully vaccinated will still have to quarantine on arrival.

About 13 percent of Australians have been vaccinated, with low supplies of Pfizer-BioNTech shots and scepticism about the AstraZeneca jab.

The country has recorded more than 33,000 infections and 920 Covid-related deaths in a population of 25 million.

The new mechanism will allow those countries to buy additional doses on top of the subsidised ones they will already receive via Covax.

France recorded almost 23,000 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, twice as many as last week, as the Delta variant caused a surge.

Germany joins a number of European nations that have seen cases climb in recent weeks fuelled by the Delta variant, first detected in India.

The WHO was only able to send a team of independent, international experts to Wuhan in January, more than a year after Covid-19 first surfaced there.

The build-up has been dogged by scandals ranging from corruption during the bidding process to plagiarism allegations over the design of the Tokyo 2020 logo.

The restrictions have even faced criticism from some lawmakers in Macron's Republic on the Move (LREM) party, who see it as a threat to civil liberties.

Sanofi and GSK said in May that they would launch final trials after finding their drug "achieved strong rates of neutralising antibody responses" in Phase 2 clinical trials.

The posters come with a stern warning against contracting Covid-19

The Delta variant has been in the headlines for weeks, but concerns on Wall Street grew after Los Angeles reimposed an indoor mask mandate over the weekend