Brazil plans to use a Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine as part of a national immunisation programme, officials have announced. São Paulo Governor João Doria said the federal government had agreed to

Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin has announced a new six-week ‘level 5’ lockdown to try and fence off the rising levels of coronavirus in the country.  The deeply unpopular move

Belgium could soon be overwhelmed by new coronavirus infections, the health minister has warned, amid soaring case numbers across the country. Frank Vandenbroucke said new cases were close to a

Worldwide coronavirus cases have passed the 40 million mark, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. Experts believe the true numbers of both cases and deaths are likely much

China’s disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection. The conclusion came as the Chinese Center for Disease

Hundreds of people have been gathering outside a hospital in Yiwu, a city in the Zhejiang province in eastern China, for getting their hands on an experimental Covid-19 vaccine. According

  Anti-viral drug remdesivir has little to no effect on Covid patients’ chances of survival, according to a study of more than 11,000 people in 30 countries sponsored by the World

Lagos state commissioner for Health Professor Akin Abayomi has said that one hundred and eighty-one students and staff of a private boarding school in the Lekki area of the state

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday gave the approval for a second coronavirus vaccine. “Novosibirsk’s Vector Centre (Vector State Research Center) has registered today the second coronavirus vaccine, which is

As the world commemorates this year’s edition of the Global Handwashing Day, Nigeria’s Minister of Water Resources Engr. Suleiman Adamu has said handwashing with soap cuts deaths from diarrhoea by

The Chinese city of Qingdao is testing its entire population of nine million people for Covid-19 over a period of five days. The mass testing comes after the discovery of

Twitter on Sunday flagged a tweet by Donald Trump in which the US President claimed he was immune to the coronavirus, saying it violated the social media platform’s rules about

The virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces such as banknotes, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, researchers say. The findings from Australia’s national science agency

The number of coronavirus deaths in Brazil has surpassed 150,000, according to the country’s health ministry. The country also passed five million total infections earlier this week. It has the

Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Brazil have passed five million, with deaths in the country approaching 150,000, officials say. Brazil’s health ministry reported 31,553 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday called on countries to resist “vaccine nationalism”, as the international community continues to seek a vaccine against COVID-19. WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said

Britain’s government has launched an investigation into why a technical issue with its test and trace programme had not been identified sooner, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said

The World Health Organization has said one in 10 people around the world may have contracted Covid-19, far more than the current tally of more than 35 million. Speaking to

Three scientists have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for discovering the Hepatitis C virus. Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael