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The B1617 variant was, till now, deemed a 'variant of interest' by the WHO.

Local officials said some children were evacuated from the school but others still remained in the building.

"The shocking global disparity in access to vaccines remains one of the biggest risks to ending the pandemic," WHO Director-General Tedros said.

Theatres, concert halls, conference centers and sports stadiums can all reopen, with larger events in these settings being able to resume with capacity limits.

The amount has been donated to three non-governmental organisations -- Care, Aid India, and Sewa International USA.

"The situation in the country, according to experts, is stable," Xinhua news agency quoted the President as saying in Sochi on Monday.

The Food and Drug Administration declared that the Pfizer vaccine is safe and offers strong protection for younger teens based on testing of more than 2,000 US volunteers ages 12 to 15.

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The clinical trial, named Solidarity, was first announced on March 18 by WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

"Emirates has set up a humanitarian airbridge between Dubai and India to transport urgent medical and relief items, to support India in its fight to control the serious COVID-19 situation in the country,” the airline tweeted

"Suicide bomb attack killed six people comprising two senior police officers, three soldiers and a civilian and injured six others," said Police spokesman Sadik Aden Ali

The DOGE-1 is a cubesat to acquire "lunar-spatial intelligence" using onboard cameras and sensors

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) made the announcement on Sunday saying no passenger from Nepal will be allowed to enter Bangladesh from Monday

Chinese scientists described SARS coronaviruses — of which COVID is one example — as presenting a “new era of genetic weapons”

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 32,685,864 and 581,511, respectively, according to the CSSE.

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 32,649,677 and 580,870, respectively, according to the CSSE.

The Phase 2b randomised, observer-blinded, placebo-controlled trial conducted in South Africa evaluated efficacy, safety and immunogenicity in healthy adults, and in a small cohort of medically stable adults

US President Joe Biden, earlier this week, announced to provide vaccinations on a walk-in basis in tens of thousands of pharmacies and mobile clinics, the New York Times reported.

The bulging, equator-belted midsection of Earth currently teems with a greater diversity of life than anywhere else - a biodiversity that generally wanes when moving from the tropics to the mid-latitudes

Multiple law enforcement agencies responded, and students were evacuated to a nearby high school to be reunited with their parents.

Tokyo logged 591 new cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday, a slight dip from when the state of emergency began in the capital last month.

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 32,603,569 and 580,054, respectively, according to the CSSE.

The Chinese government accused Australia of taking steps “to disrupt normal exchanges" due to a "Cold War mindset and ideological discrimination.”

The decision has been taken as the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in India.