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China’s international collaboration benefits all parties, Chinese Ambassador Han Zhiqiang said during a video conference on Wednesday, pointing out that the Asian giant has delivered 46 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Thailand alone.

WASHINGTON - The White House on Wednesday announced plans to distribute vaccines to a huge group that has been ineligible so far to receive the coronavirus shots - 28 million children aged 5 to 11.

WASHINGTON - Millions more people in the United States will soon be able to receive an extra dose of any coronavirus vaccine, regardless of their initial vaccination - a flexibility that comes along with the authorization Wednesday of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson booster shots by federal regulators.

Public health experts in the United Kingdom are calling on the government to reintroduce some coronavirus restrictions as cases climb - far outstripping those of its western European neighbors - despite the countrys high vaccination coverage.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said millions of courses of Merck & Co.s promising pill for Covid-19 could begin to reach lower-income nations early next year as the charity kicks in as much as $120 million to widen global access to the therapy.

Singapore warned that covid-19 cases are dangerously straining the city-states health care system, even as strict rules designed to curb the current outbreak are set to be reviewed within days.

The U.K. plans to expand access to Covid-19 vaccines for children, the head of the National Health Service said, following a surge in infections in schools.

Moscow told its unvaccinated seniors to stay home while Russia moved to impose other new restrictions nationwide against the spread of covid-19 as the country battles record levels of infections and deaths.

WASHINGTON - U.S. politicians from both parties on Monday remembered Colin L. Powell as a highly respected public servant, trusted adviser to presidents and statesman upon learning that the former secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had died of complications from covid-19.

Expert virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan confirmed on Monday that the new anti-viral drug Molnupiravir can reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death within five days of developing a Covid-19 infection.

Jordan Lemos, a writer for video games, has lived in three different cities over the past five years. He moved from Los Angeles to Quebec to Seattle, working on blockbusters such as Assassins Creed Odyssey and Ghost of Tsushima, because the jobs required it.

President Joe Bidens chief medical adviser said he expects U.S. regulators to consider whether people who got the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine should get an mRNA shot against covid-19 as a booster.