The head of the World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19, Peter Ben Embarek, said on Tuesday that it was “very unlikely”...
Afghanistan received its first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) confirmed. The shipment was transported from Mumbai, India to Kabul...
As countries around the world struggle with new virus variants and vaccine shortfalls, the global COVID-19 caseload surpassed the 100 million mark on Wednesday, according to...
The World Health Organization’s COVAX programme has pledged $112 million for COVID-19 vaccines to reach 20 percent of Afghanistan’s population, an Afghan health official said on...
The EU-Delegation in Kabul announced additional support in the form of 35 million euros to tackle the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and mitigate its socioeconomic impacts in...
Norway has raised concerns about the safety of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine after reporting that 29 Norwegians died after receiving the inoculation. According to Bloomberg,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent a team of scientists to China’s Wuhan, the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, to probe the origins of the...
Afghan-Japanese hospital officials say a 56-year-old coronary patient was able to defeat coronavirus despite other illnesses including diabetes and high blood pressure. According to the officials,...
US health officials have stated that last week, in the United States, someone died from COVID-19 every 33 seconds. The disease claimed more than 18,000...
Nine people are reported to have died in a fire in the COVID-19 intensive care unit of a hospital in Gaziantep in Turkey on Saturday. Health...
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said Wednesday that Afghanistan would receive the first shipment of the Covid-19 vaccine in the next seven months. Addressing a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the start of a large-scale registration program for COVID-19 vaccinations, local news agencies reported. Moscow will begin the registration process...
An oxygen-producing plant was inaugurated on Sunday at Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in the capital Kabul city. A number of high-ranking government officials including Ahmad Jawad...
As a second wave sweeps across Europe, the global tally of COVID-19 infections topped the 50 million mark on Sunday. According to a Reuters tally, the...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman and interior minister both announced Saturday that they had tested positive for the coronavirus. Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kolin tweeted that...
The Afghan Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported four deaths from coronavirus in the past 24 hours in the country. According to the ministry, 104...
Brazilian health authority Anvisa confirmed a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University had died but said the...