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China has fully vaccinated over 777 million people against COVID-19 as of Aug. 12, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said on Friday. A total of 1.832 billon doses have been given in China as of Aug. 12, spokesman Mi Feng…

A powerful earthquake has struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing at least 304 people and injuring more than 1,800. The 7.2-magnitude quake hit the west of the country on Saturday morning, toppling and damaging buildings…

Taliban forces entered Kabul through the city’s four main gates Sunday morning, according to two Afghan security officials and civilian eyewitness accounts. The Islamist group is poised for a full return to power, two decades after a…

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized third doses of both the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines for certain immunocompromised people: solid organ transplant recipients or "those who are diagnosed with…

Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said on Friday that he believes the coronavirus pandemic will morph into an endemic. A pandemic is classified by the World Health Organization as a…

Early versions of COVID-19 largely spared children but the delta variant proved to be much less discriminating, and has led to more child hospitalizations. Now, health care workers on the front lines say there is another frightening…

With Israel racing to contain a fast-spreading wave of coronavirus infections, the military is reportedly set to draft hundreds more reservists to aid with the efforts, while the government announced that it would expand a new…

INDIA: Mumbai has reported its first death due to the Delta Plus variant of the novel coronavirus. According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials, a 63-year-old woman, who had succumbed to COVID-19 infection last…

NORWAY: COVID-19 may behave like other common-cold coronaviruses in the next few years, affecting mostly young children who have not yet been vaccinated or exposed to the virus, according to a modelling study published on Thursday.…

SWITZERLAND: The number of countries, areas or territories reporting various variants of Covid-19 has continued to increase after the global infection tally surpassed the 200 million mark last week, the World Health Organization (WHO)…