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China orders lockdown of up to 13 million people in Xi'an
State media reported that city officials ordered all residents to stay home unless they had a pressing reason to go out and suspended all transport to...
Sputnik V, Sputnik Light booster effective against Omicron: Study
Sputnik V elicits a strong and long-lasting T-cell response, and as 80% of epitopes in the spike protein are not affected by the mutations in the...
U.N. shrinks Yemen food rations in "desperate measures"
U.N. agencies, including the WFP, earlier warned of programme cuts, after only $2.68 billion of $3.85 billion requested from donors for this year had...
Omicron to dominate Europe soon, booster dose important defence: WHO
Omicron will dominate European countries within weeks, pushing an already stretched health system further to the brink, said head of the European...
Biden announces 500 million free at-home Covid test kits to fight...
Amid rising cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of Covid, US President Joe Biden has announced 500 million free at-home test kits, even...
EU to limit validity of digital Covid-19 pass to 9 months
The European Union (EU) digital Covid-19 certificate will only be valid for travel for nine months, the European Commission has said.
Could be entering the worst part of pandemic: Bill Gates on Omicron...
Noting on the issue that his close friends have been affected by the virus, Gates urged his followers to take Omicron, the Delta variant of Covid,...
Omicron is likely to hit deprived areas the hardest here's why
A recurring theme of the pandemic has been how COVID's impacts have not fallen equally across the UK population. The health and financial burden of...