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Kent hospital to begin Covid-19 vaccinations

Britain insisted on Friday that its world-first approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine met all safety standards, striving to tamp down any public...

Melbourne's Coronavirus Restrictions Are Easing Further at Midnight Tonight

Police practices and systems at Sydney International Airport are being reviewed and strengthened as a result of the breach, the NSW Police Force said in a state...

Nearly all COVID-19 cases develop antibodies

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said that decisions made by the governments and individuals in the coming days would be decisive. W...

Covid-19: Care home vaccinations to start 'within two weeks'

They must be shipped and stored at ultra-cold temperatures of approximately minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit). Bahrain is a Mideast nation ...

BC health officials report 711 new coronavirus cases

There are 338 individuals now hospitalized with COVID-19, 76 of whom are in intensive care. Two new health-care facility outbreaks at Peace Arch Hospital Foun...

Moscow launches online registration for Covid-19 vaccination

The move is a significant step beyond how Facebook has attempted to control misinformation about other vaccines, and is understood to have been accelerated by t...

Alberta reaching out to Red Cross, feds about possible field hospitals

Kenney said the vaccine will not be mandatory, and said during a press conference Wednesday that his government will reverse legislation on the books for almost...

Los Angeles city issues remain-at-home order to all residents

Last week Governor Gavin Newsom issued a new stay-at-home order , and on Wednesday, Los Angeles county reported over 8,000 patients hospitalized with the virus...

COVID-19 vaccinations and care homes: programme launch

Hours later, AstraZeneca's head of non-oncology research and development, Mene Pangalos, told Reuters the half-dose schedule had been a case of miscalculated ...

Governor announces new state-at-home order triggered by regional ICU capacity

There are no regions now impacted by the stay-at-home order, but projections show four of the regions dropping below 15% ICU capacity in the next few days. "A m...

Clark County reports 296 new COVID-19 cases over two days

Weekly case counts remained stagnant this week, as new weekly case data from the county health department shows there were 358 cases between November 24 through...

Fauci apologizes for suggesting United Kingdom rushed Covid vaccine approval

The U.K. "kind of ran around the corner of the marathon and joined it in the last mile", Fauci told CBS. He contrasted Britain's regulator with the US Food ...

Nurse put on leave after posting TikTok bragging about not wearing mask

According to KPTV-TV in Salem, Oregon , the Washington Post and BuzzFeed News , the unidentified nurse originally shared the video on TikTok. According ...

UK Licenses Pfizer Vaccine for Emergency Use l KBS WORLD Radio

Also, it is unclear whether the "Pfizer" and "Modern" vaccines will be available after February. About 20 million people are expected to be vaccinated with th...

Coronavirus infections down by nearly a third following second national lockdown

The study found the percentage of the population infected has more than halved in both the north-west - down from 2.53% to 1.08% - and in the north-east, down f...

French PM Castex announces Covid-19 vaccine will be free to all

Beginning in February, the prime minister said 14 million more people, those presenting risk factors for coronavirus infection , would receive the vaccine. "Ho...

Gov. Newsom announces regional stay-at-home order tied to ICU capacity

He has already imposed restrictions, including a nighttime curfew on 51 of the state's 58 counties. The four other designated regions are Southern California...

Royal Free to be Covid-19 'vaccine hub' | Hampstead Highgate Express

Neither vaccines can be injected in children and pregnant women. The streak was broken when Australia's most populous state said a worker at a hotel, where ov...

Positive Case of COVID-19 Identified at Forest Glade Public School

Twelve universities in HCMC have had to close down as several of their students and teachers were found to have come into close contact with the city's latest C...

CDC updates quarantine guidance in hopes more people will comply

For those who decide to travel, the CDC now recommends people get tested for COVID-19 both before and after their trips. The updated guidelines will let peopl...

UN agency removes cannabis from strictest drug category

China, Egypt, Nigeria and Pakistan were also among those in opposition, while Ukraine abstained. Anna Fordham, the executive director of the International Dru...

COVID-19 Deaths and Hospitalizations Set Records In New Single-Worst Day

More than 270,000 people in the United States have died from Covid-19, the most of any country. More than 100,000 people were in the hospital battling the v...

CDC Says Quarantining for 14 Days Is No Longer a Must

Marek Smieja, scientific director at McMaster HealthLabs, told CTV News. The virus and the illness that it causes, COVID-19, were 1st identified in Wuhan, Ch...

Quebec adds 1,117 new coronavirus cases, 28 more deaths as hospitalizations jump

The rules were first imposed near the start of the global outbreak. Public health had recommended for the government to make its decision on holiday gathering...

US coronavirus deaths set record at over 3,100 in a single day

The milestone was tallied in the evening of December 2, meaning the day's death toll could climb even higher overnight, CNN reported. More than 270,000 peop...

Promise of COVID vaccines is 'phenomenal', World Health Organization says

The S&P 500 futures trade modestly flat near the 3,670 region. Vaccines by Moderna are stable at refrigerator temperatures for 30 days. Kansas is estimated ...

Covid-19: US Hits Record Number of Cases and Hospitalisations

Data from the COVID Tracking Project show 100,226 people were hospitalized on Wednesday with the disease caused by the coronavirus - a figure that has been...

US COVID Cases, Deaths Shatter Previous Records

Robert Redfield, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday. "The reality is that December, January and February are going to be...

CDC recommends shorter quarantine time in US, United States News & Top Stories

It said counties may choose to opt into the shortened quarantine period, either 10 or 7 days with testing, or continue with the 14 day quarantine period. Accord...

16 more COVID-19 related deaths, 656 new cases in B.C.

The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation. Interior Health reports 570 active cases, with 18 people in hospital but no one i...

Coronavirus likely in USA as early as December 2019

Antibodies were found in 39 samples from California, Oregon and Washington state collected between December 13 and December 16, and 67 samples in Massachusett...

COVID-19 hospitalizations hit new record at UAB, statewide

Alabama hospitals that already are treating a record number of COVID-19 patients are bracing for a "tidal wave" of additional cases linked to holiday gatherings...

India's active COVID-19 caseload drops to 428644

There are now 33,894 cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in B.C. after health officials announced 656 new cases Tuesday. This virus moves quickly and easily b...

Retailers ask Ontario government to lift COVID restrictions

In that level, indoor dining at restaurants and bars is capped at 10 customers, while social gatherings must have fewer than five people indoors and 25 outdoors...

CDC to shorten COVID-19 quarantine to 10 days, 7 with test

While the first confirmed coronavirus case in the US was reported on January 19, the findings suggest the virus had already gained a foothold well before wide...