Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member of the Executive Council and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Office, was today administered the COVID-19 vaccine. This was during his visit to Khalifa Hospital to review the first day […]
Dogs trained to detect the novel coronavirus began sniffing passenger samples at Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport this week, authorities said, in a pilot project running alongside more usual testing at the airport. The dogs’ efficiency has not been proven in comparative […]
Walt Disney Co urged California officials on Tuesday to let the company reopen the Disneyland theme park, which remains shuttered six months after closing down to help curb the spread of coronavirus. With approval from local authorities, Disney has reopened […]
Russia is so confident in its COVID-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the legal liability should anything go wrong, rather than requiring buyers to take on the full risk, the head of the state fund bankrolling the project […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell people on Tuesday to work from home and will impose new curbs on pubs, bars and restaurants in a bid to tackle the swiftly accelerating second wave of the coronavirus outbreak. In an […]
More than a thousand Philippine health workers will finally be allowed to take jobs abroad following President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to ease their travel ban, but they are not celebrating yet and want a total lifting of restrictions. Thousands of […]
India, on Sunday, announced a $250 million loan to Maldives to boost its coronavirus-battered economy in a further bid to counter China’s growing financial footprint in South Asia. The Indian Ocean archipelago, renowned for its luxury resorts, has been badly […]
Over 95,880 Covid patients showed signs of recovery in the last 24 hours, a record-figure, while 93,337 new infections added in to pitch total cases rampant at over 5.3 million.More than 4.2 million have recovered from the virus so far, […]
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe has crossed 30 million, according to latest figures by America’s Johns Hopkins University. More than 940,000 have died due to Covid-19 since the outbreak began in China late last year. The […]
A UAE bakery is helping the country in its fight against Covid-19 by making its staff undergo a specialised Covid training by Dubai’s Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU). Mustafa Al Husseiny, General Manager of Golden […]
India’s confirmed coronavirus infections passed 5 million on Wednesday, still soaring and testing the feeble health care system in tens of thousands of impoverished towns and villages. The world’s second-most populous country has added more than 1 million cases this […]