Coronavirus: France extends overnight curfew as cases surge
"The second wave is now under way," he said, shortly before the country announced a record 41,622 new cases, the BBC reported.
The 21:00 to...
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial Brazil volunteer dies, trial to continue
Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University...
Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of violating new ceasefire agreement
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Sunday of violating a new humanitarian ceasefire in fighting over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, hours after...
First Sri Lanka born MP in New Zealand Parliament
Sri Lankan-born Human Rights lawyer in New Zealand, Vanushi Walters has won the seat in Auckland's Upper Harbour.
She is the first Sri Lankan born...
‘Things will get worse’: London goes into stricter lockdown
London, the world’s international financial capital, will enter a tighter COVID-19 lockdown from midnight on Friday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to tackle...
Twitter down: social media platform suffers global outage with users unable...
Twitter has suffered multiple outages in many countries across the world, leaving millions of users unable to post to its platform.
The company confirmed that an “inadvertent...
WHO fears spike in deaths after global COVID-19 surge
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned against any complacency in the coronavirus death rate, saying with the increasing number of cases, mortality...
Countries turn to rapid antigen tests to contain second wave of...
Countries straining to contain a second wave of COVID-19 are turning to faster, cheaper but less accurate tests to avoid the delays and shortages...
UK PM Johnson resists national lockdown but rules nothing out
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday resisted a short lockdown for all of England but said he ruled nothing out in the face...
Russia approves second COVID-19 vaccine after preliminary trials
Russia has granted regulatory approval to a second COVID-19 vaccine, according to its register of authorised medicines.
A delighted President Vladimir Putin announced the news...
