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AUSTRALIA: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday apologised to his country for the slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccination campaign, even as cases due to the virus outbreak continue to see a spike amid lockdown.…

CHINA: China hopes that the World Health Organization (WHO) will treat the novel coronavirus origin-tracing work as a scientific issue, get rid of political interference, and actively and prudently promote tracing work continuously in…

SWITZERLAND: The highly contagious Delta variant of Sars-Cov-2 has been identified in 124 countries and is expected to become the dominant strain worldwide within months, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. The rapid…

China has rejected the next stage of a World Health Organization (WHO) plan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO wants to audit laboratories in the area the virus was first identified. But Zeng Yixin,…

US: In its largest-ever crisis response, the World Bank has deployed over USD 157 billion to fight the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health, economic and social fronts over the last 15 months. This represents an increase of…

SWITZERLAND: Climate change has dramatically altered the Swiss Alp landscape -- at a quicker pace than expected -- as melting glaciers have created more than 1,000 new lakes across in the mountains, a study published Monday showed.…

US: The wealthiest man on the planet Jeff Bezos said the “most profound” aspect of his brief journey to space was the spectacular view he saw of Earth, which left him amazed by its beauty and fragility. “Every astronaut who’s…

US: US President Joe Biden on Monday toned down his comments about Facebook after accusing it of “killing people” by not stopping COVID vaccine misinformation, but he still urged the world’s largest social network to do more. “We…

UK: Antibody levels remain high nine months after infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic, according to a study published on Monday that analysed data from an entire Italian town.…

INDONESIA: Indonesia, Iran and France were suffering alarming surges in COVID-19 cases yesterday, as Governments raced to vaccinate populations in a bid to outpace the highly-contagious Delta variant wreaking havoc across the globe.…