Novel Coronavirus

The navy said that 98 percent of its 350,000 active duty members had begun or completed the vaccination process.

Scientists who have spoken publicly about Covid-19 have been subjected to abuse

Britain had also been too slow to introduce the isolation of infected people and their households

Kyrie Irving has refused to get vaccinated against Covid-19

Restaurants and pubs will be allowed to reopen but only with a maximum of 50 fully vaccinated people seated outdoors

The research, the largest yet on the condition known as "long Covid", added that one in three patients still have shortness of breath a year after their diagnosis.

School and university staff will need the pass, as will university students, while from September 1 it will be required on domestic flights and long-distance trains.

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

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

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

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

The vice-president of tourism association Confturismo, Marco Michielli, said the new law represented a "good compromise".

The shot was also subject to a safety pause in April after a heightened risk was identified involving a rare form of clotting, mostly in younger women.

Britain too is seeing a spike in new cases and has warned that infections could more than treble to 100,000 a day.

Faced with the surge in a pandemic that has already killed more than 3.9 million people worldwide, officials are racing to vaccinate their populations.

US President Joe Biden last month ordered intelligence agencies to investigate the origin of the pandemic, including the lab leak theory.

Trump posted on his blog Tuesday that time has vindicated him, though there is no definitive proof that COVID-19 leaked from a lab.

The WHO said Friday that even the vaccinated should keep wearing masks in areas where the virus is spreading.

Pfizer is expected to deliver 250 million doses across the EU during the second quarter of this year

Spain is still imposing numerous safety protocols in relation to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

The emergence of highly contagious variants to the SARS-CoV-2 virus had triggered concern about their impact on the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines.

The 10-strong team is expected to arrive Thursday in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the virus was first detected in late 2019.

Trump dropped the bombshell via a pre-recorded statement made in the White House and sent out on Twitter.

German Health Minister Jens Spahn, addressing a videoconference of his EU colleagues, said Wednesday: "The idea is not to be first, but to have a safe and efficient vaccine."

Michael Ryan, the WHO's emergencies director, said there was a balance to be struck between the science and the economic and social factors.

Richard Schiff is now on oxygen and Remdesivir as he battles COVID-19.

Concerns of a resurgence also remain in parts of the world that have largely brought their caseloads under control.

Despite encouraging news on the medical front, rising infection and death rates have left many governments struggling to cope.

Uber elaborates more on the procedure wherein it will not require the mask verification for all of its customers.

Pogba is the latest Premier League player to have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.