Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted unanimously to recommend the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines be preferred over the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to very rare but dangerous blood clot risk....
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is releasing preliminary fiscal year (FY) 2021 agency...
A reinstated indoor mask mandate has come into effect in California in an effort to prevent an anticipated increase of Covid-19 cases due to gatherings during the year-end holidays and the emergence of the new Omicron variant. ...
Emphasising that following the emergence of the Omicron variant, India had immediately offered support including supplying made vaccines to the affected countries in Africa, India at the UN said that sustainable recovery from the pandemic should start with vaccines....
President Joe Biden has nominated career diplomat Caroline Kennedy to be the next US Ambassador to Australia, the White House said....
Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, said he has been tested positive for coronavirus and will quarantine himself as per medical guidelines....
White House Chief Medical advisor Antony Fauci on Wednesday said that the currently available booster shots work against the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and there is no need for a variant-specific booster....
Vaccine advisers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will meet on Thursday to discuss potentially limiting the use of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine due to persistent blood clot issues, The Washington Post reported citing clinicians familiar with the matter....
Global debt rose to a record $226 trillion in 2020 as the world was hit by the raging Covid-19 pandemic and a deep recession, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced....
The global coronavirus caseload has topped 272 million, while the deaths have...