Serbia gets Chinese-made Sinopharm jabs Serbia became one of the first European countries to receive a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday when one million doses of a jab produced by Sinopharm arrived at Belgrade airport. Jan 16, 2021 0 4
Pfizer, BioNTech to limit delays of vaccine shipments to one week Pfizer and BioNTech said Saturday they will limit the delays of their vaccine deliveries to just one week, after fears in Europe that shipments of the jabs could be slowed for up to a month. Jan 16, 2021 0 8
Argentina detects first case of British virus variant Argentina has detected its first case of a British-identified coronavirus variant that appears to be more infectious, authorities said Saturday. Jan 16, 2021 0 11
India's jumbo-sized vaccine rollout in numbers India began one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes on Saturday, hoping to end a pandemic that has killed 150,000 people in the country and torpedoed the economy. Jan 16, 2021 0 3
Mexico sees record spike in coronavirus cases Mexico posted a record spike in coronavirus cases on Friday, with 21,366 newly confirmed infections, about double the daily rate of increase just a week ago. The country also recorded 1,106 more deaths. Jan 16, 2021 0 5
California now reporting 525 virus deaths every day More Californians than ever are dying from the coronavirus—a knee-bucking 525 every day—and with the number expected to keep climbing state officials said Friday they are sending more refrigerated trailers to act as makeshift ... Jan 16, 2021 0 6
EXPLAINER: Why expansion of vaccine to smokers caused a stir New Jersey this week made millions of people eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including smokers, a move that prompted gripes about them skipping to the front of the inoculation line. Jan 16, 2021 3 17
Gene-mapping champion Iceland leads the way in COVID sequencing Iceland has genetically sequenced all its positive COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, an increasingly vital practice as worrying new strains emerge from Britain and South Africa. Jan 16, 2021 0 73
Governors complain over pace of COVID-19 vaccine shipments Governors bitterly accused the Trump administration Friday of deceiving the states about the amount of COVID-19 vaccine they can expect to receive as they ramp up vaccinations for senior citizens and others. But the government ... Jan 16, 2021 0 2
China builds hospital in 5 days after surge in virus cases China on Saturday finished building a 1,500-room hospital for COVID-19 patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to contain and that it blamed on infected people or goods from abroad. Jan 16, 2021 0 20