COPENHAGEN: The World Health Organization’s European office on Tuesday warned the risk of Covid-19 has not gone away, saying it was still responsible for nearly 1,000 deaths a week in the region.The global health body on May 5 announced that the Covid-19 pandemic was no longer deemed a “global healthContinue Reading

THE HAGUE: Covid-19 remains a threat even though it is no longer a global health emergency, the EU’s vaccines watchdog warned on Tuesday in its final briefing of the pandemic. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was stopping its regular briefings, which for nearly three years were keenly watchedContinue Reading

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.“We need to get to the bottom of Covid-19’s origins…, including potential links toContinue Reading

TOKYO: Japan is easing its coronavirus border measures for tourists from China beginning Wednesday by testing only random passengers, a top government spokesman said on Monday.Since December, Japan has been testing all travellers from mainland China at four designated airports on grounds of surging infections in that country and aContinue Reading