Twenty-four people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The United Arab Emirates said Wednesday a Chinese coronavirus vaccine tested in the federation of sheikhdoms is 86% effective, in a statement that provided few details but marked the first public release of information on the efficacy of the shot.

Indonesia’s state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma has said the efficacy of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac could not yet be determined, after previously saying that interim data showed 97% efficacy.

Britain began the mass-vaccination of its population against COVID-19 on Tuesday, becoming the first Western nation to do so in a global endeavour that poses one of the biggest logistical challenges in peacetime history.

Thirty-two people have died from Covid-19 and at least 2,202 new infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

UK health authorities began rolling out the first doses of a widely tested and independently reviewed Covid-19 vaccine today, starting a global immunisation programme that is expected to gain momentum as more serums win approval.

Accelerating the process of Covid-19 vaccine development, an expert committee of India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) will meet tomorrow to review the applications of pharma giants Pfizer, Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech for emergency use authorisation for their vaccine candidates as the second worst-hit country’s total cases of the deadly virus neared one crore mark.

Thirty-six people have died from Covid-19 and at least 2,198 people were infected in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

At least six Covid-19 patients died after "criminal negligence" resulted in a delayed supply of oxygen to a hospital in northwest Pakistan, officials said Sunday, as the country battles a second wave of the epidemic.

Indonesia received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine from China on Sunday, President Joko Widodo said, as the government prepares a mass inoculation programme.

A total of 304 incoming passengers were sent to institutional quarantine in 24 hours -- since Saturday morning -- as they didn’t have Covid-19 negative certificates with them.

Thirty-one people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Indian state Haryana’s health minister Anil Vij has tested positive for Covid-19, nearly 14 days after he was administered the first dose of India’s indigenous vaccine candidate Covaxin during a trial.

Thirty-five people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The government today introduced the much talked about antigen-based rapid testing in 10 districts across the country.

The island kingdom of Bahrain said it has become the second nation in the world to grant an emergency-use authorisation for the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.

Former education minister and also a presidium member of ruling Awami League Nurul Islam Nahid has tested positive for Covid-19.

Twenty-four people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Former US presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton have said they would volunteer to get their Covid-19 vaccines publicly to promote confidence among people in the vaccine’s safety once the US Food and Drug Administration authorises one, reports CNN.

Facebook Inc on Thursday said it would remove false claims about COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts, following a similar announcement by Alphabet Inc’s YouTube in October.