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The pandemic has claimed more than 3.3 million lives worldwide, with one of the worst outbreaks in India.

Brazil could have secured more Pfizer doses faster, but Bolsonaro's government refused an offer last August to purchase more than 70 million of them.

Even before the global health crisis hit, the NHS was already under severe strain.

The WHO said Friday that even the vaccinated should keep wearing masks in areas where the virus is spreading.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking with Payne, renewed US criticism of the original WHO investigation.

A variety of incentives are being offered across the country to convince the undecided, including beer, donuts or tickets to sporting events.

Latest figures gathered by AFP from official sources showed almost 160 million confirmed cases worldwide by 1600 GMT Wednesday.

Australian and New Zealand app Menulog last month moved toward treating its Australian delivery riders as employees

Outside of India, it said that Britain had reported the largest number of Covid cases caused by the variant.

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.