U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the country is on course to scrap lockdown rules, and Denmark will ease curbs this week. Singapore is cracking down in response to a flareup linked to the variant first identified in India, a setback for one of the most successful virus-containment regimes.
India’s Covid cases top 20m
Health ministry official says infections in some regions levelling out
A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) receives treatment inside the casualty ward at a hospital in New Delhi, India, May 1, 2021. Photo: Reuters Agencies Agencies
India s coronavirus caseload topped 20 million yesterday as the pandemic continued to wreak havoc on the country s hospitals and the opposition leader said a nationwide lockdown was now the only way out.
Cricket officials suspended the money-spinning Indian Premier League (IPL) as the pandemic spirals out of control, with the country adding 10 million cases in just over four months, after taking more than 10 months to reach the first 10 million.
EMA opens review of China s Sinovac coronavirus jab
The vaccine contains an inactivated form of coronavirus that cannot cause the disease H. J. I. / AFP
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EMA opens review of China s Sinovac coronavirus jab
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Currently the Sinovac vaccine is in use in at least 22 countries including several in Latin America, Africa and Asia
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Europe s medicines watchdog said Tuesday it has started reviewing China s Sinovac coronavirus jab, a process that could lead to eventual approval for the European market.
Made by Sinovac s Beijing-based Life Sciences unit, the vaccine by the Chinese biotech firm is the second shot developed outside the West after Russia s Sputnik V to be considered for European use by the European Medicines Agency.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the country is on course to scrap lockdown rules, and Denmark will ease curbs this week. Singapore is cracking down in response to a flareup linked to the variant first identified in India, a setback for one of the most successful virus-containment regimes.