NAIROBI – Kenya has administered over 12 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, with 20 percent of the country’s population being fully vaccinated, according to the Ministry of Health. In a statement released on Sunday, Mutahi Kagwe, cabinet secretary of the ministry, said that the government aims to vaccinate 70 percent of the population by June, even … Read more
ULAN BATOR – Mongolia recorded 3,088 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, exceeding the 3,000 mark for the first time since Sept. 23, 2021, bringing the national tally to 415,765, the country’s health ministry said Wednesday. The latest confirmed cases were all locally transmitted, and more than half of them were detected in … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia recorded 3,245 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 2,813,934, according to its health ministry. The new infections included 274 imported cases and 2,971 local transmissions, showed data released on the health ministry’s website. An additional nine … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) — Malaysia reported another 2,342 COVID-19 infections as of midnight Monday, bringing the national total to 2,810,689, according to the Health Ministry. There are another 180 imported cases, with 2,162 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. Another 16 deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — Malaysia reported another 3,198 COVID-19 infections as of midnight Wednesday, bringing the national total to 2,795,233, according to the health ministry. Another 303 new cases are imported, with 2,895 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. Fifteen more deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll … Read more
PHNOM PENH: A flight carrying a new batch of 2 million doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia on Tuesday, giving another boost to the kingdom’s inoculation drive, a senior health official said. The jabs were purchased from the Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech, said Ministry of Health (MoH) … Read more
BEIJING: China will provide 2 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines for the world and offer $100 million to Covax throughout this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday in a written message to the first meeting of the international forum on Covid-19 vaccine cooperation. [embedpost slug=”/china-urges-us-to-completely-lift-sanctions-against-cuba/”]
