Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday said that the easing of entry rules for foreigners introduced earlier this month is being cancelled and the border ban is being reinstated in order to prevent the spread of new COVID strain Omicron. ...
The COVID-19 vaccination drive kicked off in Sri Lanka on Friday, a day after India's gift of 5 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine reached the island nation. ...
There is no evidence to suggest that the newly-detected Japanese mutation made the coronavirus more aggressive, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. ...