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Novak Djokovic could be forced to miss the US Open owing to the United States' rule about travellers to the country being fully vaccinated.

Bedside nurses' role, job autonomy and even salaries are still defined by the notion that, as naturally compassionate individuals, they should be willing to sacrifice parts of themselves to provide care to others.

China's zero-Covid policy and the subsequent lockdowns have made survival difficult for foreign companies.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has accused officials of "slackness and immaturity," in dealing with the country's first officially confirmed COVID-19 outbreak.

The true toll, including those who died of COVID-19 as well as those who perished as an indirect result of the outbreak, was likely closer to 15 million, the WHO said.

A study conducted by the researchers in UK has found that women and young adults were more likely to gain weight during the first Covid-19 induced lockdown.

The WHO believes that generally, six in 10 deaths worldwide are not formally recorded.

The residents of Beijing were seen flocking to markets on Monday to stock up on food and other essential supplies in case the Chinese government imposes a Shanghai-style lockdown.

A UK patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for more than a year. It is said to be the first such case wherein a person had the virus for 505 days, according to research by scientists at King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS foundation trust.

The sudden surge in COVID-19 cases has forced India's national capital, New Delhi, to bring back the mask mandate, weeks after the government made wearing masks voluntary.

US federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the mask mandate exceeds the statutory authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A woman from West Sussex, UK has decided to donate her kidney to save her nine-year-old daughter's life after the latter suffered kidney failure upon contracting Covid-19 last year.

Analysts say April readings will likely be worse, with lockdowns in commercial centre Shanghai and elsewhere dragging on

On Wednesday, the government announced its plan to expand the rollout of second COVID-19 booster shot for people over 60.

Some countries are still witnessing serious spikes in cases, which is putting pressure on hospitals

A study published in the journal PNAS Nexus and conducted by scientists in New Zealand, found that people who opposed vaccines had a difficult childhood. It added that these experiences instilled a distrust for authority in them.

There are over 1,500 people in a city exhibition hall that has been converted into a quarantine centre.

Several exhibition halls in the megacity have been converted into mass quarantine centres, lining up row upon row of beds.

The UK hospitals have issued warnings asking people to be cautious as the cases of Norovirus infection have been increasing slowly when the country is already struggling to cope with Covid-19.

On Saturday, a member of the city's pandemic task force had vowed Shanghai would not shut down.

Criticism of the government's zero-Covid policy has met political backlash in the past.

China has had to shut down the Disney resort located in its financial hub of Shanghai as the country faces its worst Covid-19 outbreak in the last two years.

In a bid to bolster waning immunity, some nations such as France have started rolling out fourth vaccine doses.

Scenes of closed neighbourhoods, panic buying and police cordons cast back to the early phase of the pandemic, which first emerged in China in late 2019.

The researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have found that pet hamsters were the most likely source of the latest Covid-19 outbreak in Hong Kong. The Delta variant of the coronavirus has been leading the current surge in the region.

Authorities also said Sunday that people cannot leave or enter Shanghai without a negative test taken in the past 48 hours.

The scientists in France have detected a strain of the coronavirus that appears to have combined mutations from the Omicron and Delta variants of Covid-19. They believe that the mutation may have been circulating since early January in several regions of the country.

The scientists in Canada have found a highly mutated version of the coronavirus in white-tailed deer, one that may have also have infected a person in the southwestern Ontario region. It could become the first known case of deer to human transmission once confirmed.

Johnson will also give more details on how Britain will guard against future coronavirus variants

The government hires about 20,000 workers monthly and currently cannot require them to be vaccinated, he added.