Moderna, Inc. said on Tuesday that its Covid-19 vaccine was effective in children age 12 to 17 years old in a new study, and is planning to ask health regulators in the United States and other countries early next month to expand the shot's use to this age bracket....
Fifty per cent of residents aged 16 and over in Los Angeles County, the most populous in the US, have been fully vaccinated, the county's Department of Public Health announced....
US states have focused on expanding roads rather than rehabilitating existing ones, contradicting the new transportation priorities set by the federal government, a media report said....
The United States on Monday advised its citizens against traveling to Japan due to Covid-19 risk, two months before the start of the Tokyo Olympics. ...
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 167.1 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.46 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
An Indian-origin family that owns a store in Massachusetts is being hailed for their honesty for returning a $1 million lottery ticket to the woman who had bought it because their elders in India advised them, "we don't want that money"....
At least 25 American states reported that more than 50 per cent of their adult population had been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the latest data published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said all public schools will fully reopen in September with in-person classes only. ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has embarked on a trip to the Middle East to consolidate the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas which was reached after an 11-day bloodshed in an around the Gaza Strip, the State Department said....
Pfizer on Monday announced a study to explore coadministration of its pneumococcal vaccine along with a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in older adults....
