UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was hospitalised last year with a severe bout of Covid-19, has received his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the virus....
India is once again witnessing a massive surge in coronavirus cases as it recorded 40,953 infections in the last 24 hours, highest so far since November, taking the total tally to 1,15,55,284 on Saturday....
Austria has broken the record for daily coronavirus cases since the beginning of this year again with 3,515 new infections reported on Friday....
Germany's reported daily Covid-19 infections continued to rise sharply on Friday as the country registered 17,482 new cases in one day, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said on Friday....
Another 4,802 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 4,285,684, according to official figures released on Friday....
The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) on Friday announced a one-week suspension of the AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine in the country despite the previous day's recommendation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) which said that the vaccine was safe for use....
Most people who had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least six months, but elderly patients are more prone to reinfection, according to a research published in The Lancet....
India has logged 39,726 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, highest since November last year, taking the total tally to 1,15,14,331....
The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has surpassed 121.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.68 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday announced "new massive measures" to curb Covid-19 in the country's 16 worst-hit regions, including Paris and the northern region....
