Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday announced that the population above 50 years of age will get start receiving the COVID-19 vaccine from March onward.

Covid-19 vaccination for people above 50 years will begin from March: Harsh Vardhan 

Rio carnival was cancelled this year in Brazil and understandably so due to the coronavirus pandemic but virus restrictions have failed to damp in spirits of the revellers, many of whom are also pets and furry companions.

Brazil: Carnival amid the Coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19 infection rates in Poland have subsided in recent weeks. This has prompted the government to relax some of the restrictions allowing for some leisure facilities to reopen. Will the country witness 3rd pandemic wave?

Coronavirus Update: Will Poland witness 3rd pandemic wave?

France: Health ministry has asked regional health agencies and hospitals to enter into crisis mode to prepare for a possible surge in Coronavirus cases as a result of highly contagious variants in the region.

France prepares for possible COVID-19 spike. Country to enter 'crisis organization' from feb 18

When the coronavirus pandemic struck last March, Kathryn Stewart was working at a gas station in rural Michigan and living in her mother’s trailer with eight relatives, three dogs and a budget with no room for error.

A year of hardship, helped and hindered by Washington

Japan has officially approved Pfizer Inc's Covid vaccine, as the country steps up efforts to tame a third wave of infections in the run-up to the Summer Olympic Games.

Japan formally approves its first Covid vaccine

The United States has -- yet again -- expressed concern over China's early response to the Covid-19 crisis, in the aftermath of a World Health Organisation team of inquiry returning from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the pandemic.

US cites 'deep concerns' about WHO Covid report, seeks more information from China

Lebanon on Saturday received its first vaccines against the coronavirus, a day before an inoculation drive kicks off in the crisis-hit Mediterranean country. A plane landed at the Beirut airport, an AFP correspondent reported, with authorities saying it was carrying 28,500 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech flown in from Belgium.

Lebanon receives first Covid vaccines

As the United Kingdom scrambles to control various coronavirus variants, the chief of the UK's genetic surveillance programme has predicted that the mutation found in Kent will "sweep the world".

COVID-19: Virus undergoes further mutation

French authorities recommended on Friday that people who have already recovered from COVID-19 infection, will receive a single prescribe dose, instead of prescribed two doses. With this France has become the first country in the world to advise single doses of vaccine to its people.

France recommends a single dose for people who have already recovered from COVID-19

The pandemic rages on if you could name one industry that is not been disrupted by the covid crisis. In France, circuses face the threat of not only the pandemic but also the possible animal ban in circuses.

COVID, animal ban threatens French circuses

Two 11-week-old white tiger cubs that died in a Pakistani zoo last month might have succumbed to Covid-19 complications. One of the officials said the cubs probably caught the virus from the person handling and feeding them.

Two white tiger cubs in Pakistan likely died of Covid-19, officials say

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was sicker with COVID-19 in October than publicly acknowledged at the time, with extremely depressed blood oxygen levels at one point and a lung problem associated with pneumonia caused by the coronavirus, according to four people familiar with his condition.

Trump was sicker than acknowledged with Covid-19

Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised that the lockdown will not last a day longer than necessary. Merkel told the Parliament that lockdown extensions were important to avoid the third wave of COVID-19.

COVID-19: Germany Chancellor Merkel says 'lockdown will not be extended further'

France on Friday recommended that people who have already recovered from Covid-19 receive a single vaccine dose, becoming the first country to issue such advice.

France recommends single vaccine dose for people who have had Covid

Coronavirus has killed more than 2 million people globally and alter the lives of billions. COVID-19 variant first found in the British region of Kent is now becoming a concern because it could undermine the protection given by vaccines against developing coronavirus antibodies.

Coronavirus Updates: 'UK COVID-19 variant likely to sweep the world'

The top Republicans in the United States are heading out to New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo for undercounting COVID-19 deaths at New York's nursing home.

US: Governor Andrew Cuomo faces flak for undercounting COVID-19 deaths

Instagram took down the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the political scion and prominent anti-vaccine activist, on Wednesday over false information related to the coronavirus.

Robert F Kennedy Jr is barred from Instagram over false coronavirus claims

The National Radio and Television Administration of China has banned British television channel BBC World News from airing in Chinese mainland. China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced the ban on Thursday, stating that the BBC’s reports “violated the requirements that news should be truthful and fair, harmed China’s national interests, and undermined China’s national unity.

China bans BBC World News for its reporting on Uighur genocide, Covid-19

A large-scale international trial in the UK has led to the discovery of a 'game changer' drug for improving the health of people with obesity and could even play a major part in helping reduce the impact of diseases such as COVID-19.

UK study finds new 'game changer' drug to fight obesity

Professor Sharon Peacock, head of the Covid-19 Genomics UK (Cog-UK) Consortium said the variant 'is going to sweep the world.

Kent Covid variant is going to sweep the world, says Professor Peacock

German leaders warned Thursday that they could not rule out shutting Germany's borders with its neighbours because of troublingly high coronavirus infections fuelled by more contagious variants in countries like Austria and the Czech Republic.

Germany warns neighbours of border closures on virus fears

Mexico will receive around a million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine sent from India in the early hours of Sunday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday.

Mexico to receive 1 million doses of India-made Covid vaccine

South African cabinet has announced the extension of the country’s national state of disaster by one more month. In its statement, the government said that the national state of disaster will now continue until March 15.

South Africa extends national state of disaster by another month

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