 | | | | Top doctors in New Delhi are reporting a jump in respiratory problems among its residents, coinciding with the onset of peak pollution season in India's capital and raising concerns about complications for COVID-19 patients. | | | | | | Croatia reported its biggest rise in daily new COVID-19 infections on Thursday with 1,563 new cases, nearly half of which were in its capital Zagreb, where they more than doubled. | | | | | | AstraZeneca's Oxford COVID-19 vaccine accurately follows the genetic instructions programmed into it by its developers to successfully provoke a strong immune response, according to a detailed analysis carried out by independent UK scientists. | | | | | | A record low 59.6% of contacts of positive COVID cases were reached in the latest week, statistics for England's Test and Trace scheme showed on Thursday, with turnaround times for people receiving their results also getting slower. | | | | | | Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: | | | | | | Poland needs to introduce further curbs to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Health Minister Andrzej Niedzielski said on Thursday. | | | | | | South Korean officials refused on Thursday to suspend a seasonal influenza inoculation effort, despite growing calls for a halt, including an appeal from a key group of doctors, after the deaths of at least 25 of those vaccinated. | | | | | | India's coronavirus infections rose by 55,839, taking its tally to 7.71 million, health ministry data showed on Thursday. | | | | | | Austria's daily tally of coronavirus cases rose to 2,435 on Thursday, a new high, newspapers Kronen Zeitung and Oesterreich reported before the figures were officially published. | | | | | | The European Union wants the World Health Organization to become more transparent about how states report emerging health crises, a draft proposal on reforming the U.N. agency says, following criticism of China's initial handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. | | | | | | China's foreign ministry said Beijing wants to take an active role in the World Health Organization reform process. | | | | | |
