 | | | | The coronavirus mutation "of most concern" that could impact vaccine efficacy has occurred spontaneously in the UK variant, a professor of outbreak medicine who is part of a panel that advises the British government said on Tuesday. | | |
| | | More than half of New Delhi's 20 million inhabitants may have been infected with the coronavirus, according to a government serological survey whose findings echoed earlier private-sector research. | | |
| | | Dubai will start vaccinating people with the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the state media office said on Tuesday as the United Arab Emirates battles its biggest outbreak since the pandemic begun. | | |
| | | Bristol Myers Squib said on Tuesday its experimental oral drug for plaque psoriasis significantly reduced the extent and severity of the skin condition and was more effective than a placebo and Amgen Inc's Otezla. | | |
| | | The European Union's "export transparency mechanism" is already affecting Japan's vaccine supply schedule, the minister in charge of the campaign said on Tuesday, as the government extended a state of emergency in a bid to rein in the pandemic. | | |
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| | | Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most common form of the disease, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. | | |
| | | The Lagos businesswoman recalled the "horrendous" week she spent in the COVID-19 wing of a city public hospital, where the sense of crisis was lifted only briefly by whoops of joy when a patient secured one of the few available tanks of oxygen. | | |
| | | Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday that Japan planned to begin COVID-19 vaccinations in mid-February, which would be earlier than original plans to start at the end of this month. | | |
| | | China reported the fewest new COVID-19 cases in a month as imported cases overtook local infections, official data showed on Tuesday, suggesting the country's worst wave since March 2020 is being stamped out ahead of a key holiday. | | |
| | | Zimbabwe will have access to a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine soon, China's ambassador in Harare said on Tuesday, as Beijing ramps up its availability to developing nations. | | |
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