SUVA – Samoa reported on Thursday four new COVID-19 positive cases in quarantine, bringing to 12 the total number of infections from a flight that arrived in the Pacific island country from New Zealand on Sunday. According to the newspaper Samoa Observer, Samoa’s National Emergency Operation Center (NEOC) confirmed on Thursday that the four new … Read more
WASHINGTON – Low-income and uninsured people in the United States are facing hurdles to obtain COVID-19 antivirals, NBC News has reported. Though the COVID-19 antiviral pills are an easier, cheaper and more effective method of treating the virus, they are not easy to obtain, especially for those who are low-income or uninsured, said the U.S. … Read more
THE HAGUE – The Omicron wave is far from over in the Netherlands, with the country recording more than half a million COVID-19 cases in the last week, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said on Tuesday. From Jan. 26 to Feb. 1, the number of positive COVID-19 tests reported amounted … Read more
JERUSALEM, (Xinhua) — Israel reported 53,020 new COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total cases to 2,751,363, according to the Health Ministry. The number of COVID-19 patients in serious condition in Israel rose 946 to 1,010, the highest figure since February 2021, it added. The death toll from the virus in the country rose by 38 … Read more
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) — The first three locally transmitted COVID-19 cases of the Omicron variant in Vietnam have been confirmed in its southern Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam News Agency reported Wednesday. The three people were all related to another COVID-19 patient who recently entered Vietnam from the United … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh health department on Sunday decided to conduct coronavirus tests at schools across the province. A notification in this regard has been issued to all the district health officers, Bol news reported. As per details, 100 samples will be collected from schools in each district. Then the samples will be sent to Dow … Read more
Players from Pakistan’s under 19 squad and support staff for their upcoming series with Bangladesh have cleared the first round of COVID-19 tests. According to the details, after testing negative for the novel coronavirus, all the players and staff included in the squad were allowed to reach Lahore. However, the national squad and staff will … Read more
Pakistan’s cricket team players have been tested for Coronavirus before the England Tour. The test of the players was conducted in different corona centers around Pakistan. Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar were the four centers picked for testing. As Shoaib Malik’s departure has delayed, he will be tested later. The results of all the players and … Read more
