MARCH 30, 2021
FILE PHOTO: Medical staff members wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan, China, Jan. 25, 2020. - Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
The World Health Organization and China released a long-awaited joint report into the origins...
MARCH 29, 2021
Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc with BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc reduced risk of infection by 80 per cent two weeks or more after the first of two shots, according to data from a real-world US study released on Monday.
The risk of infection fell 90 per cent by two weeks after the second shot, the study...
MARCH 29, 2021
A health worker collects a swab sample from a bus passenger for Covid-19 test during a special testing camp at Anand Vihar bus terminal, on March 26, 2021 in New Delhi, India. And the latest data shows that India has shown biggest jump in weekly cases of Covid-19 in the past week. - Sonu Mehta/Hindustan...
MARCH 29, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden and a top health official warned Monday that too many Americans are declaring virus victory too quickly, appealing for mask requirements and other restrictions to be maintained or restored to stave off a “fourth surge” of COVID-19. The head of the CDC said she had a feeling of “impending doom” if...
MARCH 29, 2021
People line up before a Covid-19 vaccination drive the Lynchburg fire Department is helping organize at an old TJ Maxx store in Lynchburg, Virginia on March 13, 2021. - The Lynchburg Fire department teamed up with the city government and private industry to help administer and distribute vaccines to the counties around. They also use outreach with...
MARCH 29, 2021
Credentials showing that people have been vaccinated could be crucial for the resumption of international travel. (Rick Bowmer/AP)
The Biden administration and private companies are working to develop a standard way of handling credentials — often referred to as “vaccine passports” — that would allow Americans to prove they have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus as businesses...
MARCH 28, 2021
Illustration shows a cross section of the Suez Canal.
SUEZ, EGYPT — Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt's Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway, even as major shippers increasingly divert their boats out of fear the vessel may take even longer to free.
The massive...
MARCH 27, 2021
Asserting that the disinvestment target of Rs 1.75 lakh crore for 2021-22 was "imminently achievable", Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) K V Subramanian on Saturday said the proposed initial public offering (IPO) by LIC itself could garner Rs 1 lakh crore for the government.
He also said retail inflation targeting by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has helped...
MARCH 25, 2021
US President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, March 25, 2021. - Evan Vucci/AP
President Joe Biden held the first formal news conference of his presidency Thursday -- a tradition that came later than in previous presidencies and looked dramatically different because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He waited until his...
MARCH 24, 2021
The sky over the former Yugoslav capital Belgrade, now the capital of Serbia, is illuminated red as smoke rises from a refinery at the industrial complex in the suburb of Pancevo after a NATO attack, early April 18, 1999. The intervention, which began on March 24, targeted Yugoslav security forces accused of conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign...
