COVID

Mexico on Friday approved the anti-viral drug remdesivir for emergency use treating Covid-19 patients in the Latin American country, one of the worst hit by the pandemic. Regulatory agency Cofepris said it had authorized the medicine...

Epidemic coronavirus infection in Germany is on the rise again. The director of the country’s National Health Authority and disease control expert says he thinks the third wave of coronavirus infections has begun in earnest in...

Kuwait on Thursday announced a minimum one-month curfew aimed at curbing a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, after it recorded its highest daily infection count. Kuwait has since February 7 cut opening hours for non-essential retail...

The US Senate broke a logjam late Friday when a centrist Democrat compromised on a key provision of the Covid relief package, setting the $1.9 trillion bill on a likely path to passage. Democrats had struggled...

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has exempted value-added tax (including withholding VAT) on fees for coronavirus vaccine, post-import storage, marketing, transportation, distribution, and immunization programs, reports Media. The information was revealed in an order signed...

Saudi Arabia says vaccines are “mandatory” for pilgrims to avoid coronavirus infection. The country’s health minister, Tawfiq al-Rabiah, told local media that only those who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus will be able to take...

It is unrealistic to think that the world will be done with the Covid-19 pandemic by the end of the year, the WHO said Monday, reports BSS. The World Health Organization’s emergency director Michael Ryan said...

Hundreds of people took to the streets in Copenhagen on Saturday night to protest Denver’s Covid-19 ban and plans to issue digital vaccination certificates in the country. A group of about 600 people, identified as “Men...

The Movement Control Order (MCO) has been announced for another two weeks as coronavirus infections are on the rise in Malaysia. The Movement Control Order (MCO), which came into force on January 26, was supposed to...

President Joe Biden on Thursday tightened mask wearing rules and ordered quarantine for people flying into the United States, as he got to work on tackling the coronavirus pandemic on his first full day in power....