CORONAVIRUS

The United States remains the worst-hit nation in the world, with the highest number of known fatalities and infections.

The team behind the research said that they were not able to study the effect of the South African variant

Vaccinations are key in keeping the virus' transmission low, but as inoculations have slowed in recent weeks

In the United States, under-18s have accounted for 277 deaths in total

The Indian Premier League has been suspended with immediate effect after players in three franchise's and support staff of another returned positive Coronavirus tests.

With two-thirds of its 1.3-billion people under the age of 35, India is an overwhelmingly young country, but its youth have never been called on to shoulder such huge responsibilities.

Around 9,000 Australians are believed to be in India, where hundreds of thousands of new coronavirus cases are being detected every day and the death toll is soaring.

In India cases have soared by around eight million since the end of March

Populations in many countries, meanwhile, are growing weary of virus measures.

Over the last week or more, he has been working the phones and his contacts to help friends, relatives and online acquaintances across India.

The president argues the economic damage of measures such as a national lockdown would cause more suffering than the virus itself.

The vaccine trial includes participants as young as six months old

Long-term Dubai resident Purushothaman Nair said he was prepared to "spend a fortune" to return to the UAE.

There have also been concerns over the safety of some vaccines -- especially AstraZeneca -- over links to rare blood clots and some countries have restricted its use.

Centner also claimed in the letter that "thousands" of women have reported their menstrual cycles have been affected by the vaccine.

Speculation is swirling on whether the administration will try to lay the blame for the pandemic chaos on former health minister Eduardo Pazuello.

Many countries are shutting their borders to travellers from India.

The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 3.1 million people worldwide out of at least 147 million infected.

The health ministry has recorded more than 15,000 deaths since the pandemic broke out last year, from a population of 40 million.

Britain has been among the hardest hit in Europe by Covid-19, recording more than 127,000 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.

The European Union as a whole said it would have enough vaccines to immunise 70 percent of its adult population by the end of July.