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Havana, June 9 : Cuba reported on Tuesday 1,156 new Covid-19 infections and eight more deaths in the last day, bringing the total number to 151,259 cases and 1,033 deaths, the Ministry of Public Health said.Of the total number of new daily cases repo…

Los Angeles, June 9 : American singer-songwriter Jason Derulo has opened up about his friendship with Hollywood star Will Smith.He says Smith gives life advice and that being able to have someone you look up to is great.”Being able to have someone th…

Washington, June 9 : The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 173.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.74 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Wednesday morning, the University’s Center f…

New York, June 9 : The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is launching a new 10-year strategy to save the oceans’ remaining sharks and rays in 10 unique shark hotspots around the world.Called the 10×10 Shark Strategy, the effort, launched on World O…

Washington, June 8 : Taking two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s mRNA-based vaccines, authorised by the Food and Drug Administration, can reduce the risk of coronavirus infection by 91 per cent, according to a new study by the US Centers fo…

Geneva, June 8 : The World Health Organization (WHO) warned against the danger of buying overpriced Covid-19 vaccines from intermediaries, reminding countries to buy jabs certified by the WHO and make sure to identify the origin of the product.”We ha…

Washington, June 8 : The US government’s national laboratory had in a 2020 report on the origins of Covid-19 concluded that the virus leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday citing people familiar with the classifie…

Tokyo, June 8 : Many schools in Japan’s southernmost prefecture of Okinawa have closed temporarily in an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19 among young people, authorities said.According to the local government in Okinawa, a majority of high schoo…

Washington, June 8 : The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug, Aduhelm (aducanumab), for the treatment of Alzheimer’s, a debilitating disease affecting 6.2 million Americans.Aduhelm was approved on Monday using the accelerated ap…

Bangkok, June 8 : Thailand has started a mass Covid-19 vaccination program with the aim to administer as many as 6 million shots in June amid efforts to stem its worst coronavirus outbreak since the onset of the pandemic last month.From Monday, 986 v…