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Russia will have produced 2 million vaccine doses within the next few days, Putin said. Russia said last month that its Sputnik V jab was 92% effective at protecting people from COVID-19 according to interim results.

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it had received data from Pfizer and BioNTech on the COVID19 vaccine and was reviewing it for "possible listing for emergency use", a benchmark for countries to authorise national use.

The US CDS currently recommends that when patients have compromised immune systems, healthcare workers follow extra precautions such as wearing respirators instead of face masks and isolate patients for up to 20 days after symptoms appear.

French rescuers had to go to extremes to evacuate a man suffering from morbid obesity from his flat on Tuesday, after he was immobilised in his home following an accident last year.

An intense heat wave returned to Australia's south and east on Tuesday, the first day of the southern hemisphere summer, raising risks of bush fires after the country sweltered through its hottest November on record.

After a Thanksgiving weekend when the number of people traveling through U.S. airports reached its highest since midMarch, a top government official said on Monday some Americans could begin receiving coronavirus vaccinations before Christmas.

After a Thanksgiving weekend when the number of people traveling through U.S. airports reached its highest since midMarch, a top government official said on Monday some Americans could begin receiving coronavirus vaccinations before Christmas.

Russia, which is rushing to keep up with Western drugmakers in the race for a coronavirus shot, has said interim trial results show its Sputnik V vaccine to be 92 per cent effective at protecting people from COVID-19.

Heres whats happening Monday in Election 2020 and President-elect Joe Biden's transition.

The head of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) stepped down over a system failure last month, the bourse's operator said on Monday, after the disruption halted trade for an unprecedented full day and drew a rebuke from the regulator.

The most prominent leaders of Thai antigovernment protests presented themselves at a police station on Monday to hear charges of insulting the monarchy of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, but said they would not be deterred from their demonstrations.

Yemeni health worker Fairouz Sanad lugs a coolbox of polio vaccines from house to house, dripping the liquid into children's mouths hoping to stop an outbreak of the paralysing virus largely eradicated globally.

Doctors are studying the impact of COVID19 on unborn babies in Singapore, where an infant delivered by an infected mother earlier this month had antibodies against the virus but did not carry the disease.

New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl Monday in the third Twenty20 cricket international against the West Indies.

A Chinese factory owned by South Korean semiconductor giant SK Hynix Inc halted operations on Sunday after a plant worker was found to have an asymptomatic infection of the novel coronavirus, the official news agency Xinhua reported.

Nearly all social gatherings of individuals from more than a single household will be banned in Los Angeles County for at least three weeks starting Monday under new restrictions local health officials unveiled on Friday, citing a continued surge in COVID...