Health
Asian stocks mixed as vaccine hopes tempered by US data
Asian equities were mixed Thursday following another blow-out session on Wall Street, with new vaccine hopes and central bank largesse offset by ...US told to get ready for vaccine ‘by November’
The US has urged states to get ready for a potential Covid-19 vaccine rollout two days before the presidential election, it emerged ...Cuba imposes Havana curfew to curb spike in virus cases
The clocks strike 7:00 pm in Havana and the usually crowded Malecon esplanade quickly empties. For the first time since the Cuban ...US cuts remaining dues payment to WHO after Trump pullout
The Trump administration said Wednesday it won’t pay more than $60 million in dues it owes to the World Health Organization and ...UN says new polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine
The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a ...Japan considering offering coronavirus vaccine for free to all citizens
The Japanese government is considering offering the coronavirus vaccine for free to all citizens, Kyodo news reported on Wednesday. The government has ...Japan to participate in WHO coronavirus vaccine programme
Japan’s health ministry said on Tuesday it planned to participate in the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 vaccine programme known as COVAX. A ...Russia’s virus cases exceed 1 million, globally 4th highest
Russia’s tally of confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Tuesday as authorities reported 4,729 new cases. With a total of 1,000,048 ...Some Russian teachers fear back-to-school shots of ‘Sputnik V’ COVID vaccine
A small independent Russian teachers’ union is urging members not to be coerced into accepting shots of the “Sputnik V” coronavirus vaccine ...US nears 6 million cases of coronavirus
The United States neared six million coronavirus cases on Sunday, nearly a quarter of the planet’s total, as nations around the world ...














