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FRANCE: Half of the European Union’s (EU) population has now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Agency reports showed yesterday. The highly contagious Delta variant has been driving surging infections across the world, even…

CHINA: China has imposed massive travel restrictions, including temporary closure of airports and travel alerts for citizens to other places across the country, to contain the spread of the Delta variant. All 31 provincial-level…

UK: Vaccines targeting the highly transmissible Delta variant may now be needed, given its ability to infect people with fading immunity and potentially increased severity, researchers leading a large English study of COVID shots said.…

AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has said the violence-hit country's situation will see a change within the next six months as he emphasised that the security of cities is his government's priority. Addressing a…

JAPAN:Japan has carried out a threat to publicly shame people not complying with coronavirus border control measures, releasing the names of three people who broke quarantine rules after returning from overseas. The Health…

FRANCE: With France facing a fourth COVID wave, the Government is making it harder for unvaccinated people to access certain public places. Over the weekend, protesters once again came out in force to show their opposition. A…

US: The United States on Monday hit President Joe Biden's goal of administering at least one dose of a Covid vaccine to 70 percent of adults almost a month late, as the newest wave of infections pushed hospitalizations to levels seen…

Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan will begin testing its entire population, after a handful of positive coronavirus cases were detected there. Wuhan has recorded seven locally transmitted cases - the first local infections…

CHINA: China has reported a cluster of COVID-19 infections in the past month, with 328 new locally transmitted confirmed cases registered in July, a number almost equal to the country's total number in the previous five months.…

HONG KONG: Hong Kong civil servants, teachers and healthcare workers must get vaccinated against the coronavirus or pay for regular testing, the city's leader announced Monday, as her administration adopted a push into mandatory…