 | | | | India said on Tuesday new coronavirus variants were not responsible for an upsurge in cases in the states of Maharashtra and Kerala, based on evidence currently available. | | | | | | The northern French port of Dunkirk is urging the government to impose a ban on all public gatherings there until March 15 as a "last chance" move to halt a spike in COVID-19 infections. | | | | | | Senegal began its coronavirus vaccination campaign on Tuesday with 200,000 doses that it purchased from China's Sinopharm, which it received last week. | | | | | | Israel is giving "symbolic" amount of surplus COVID-19 vaccines to the Palestinians and to several countries, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement on Tuesday. | | | | | | The World Bank threatened to suspend financing for Lebanon's COVID-19 vaccination drive in its second week after it emerged that some lawmakers would get their shots in parliament on Tuesday. | | | | | | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that he was very optimistic that all COVID-19 restrictions in England would end on June 21, and added that the government would hold a review into the use of vaccine certificates. | | | | | | Ukraine received its first batch of 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Tuesday, allowing it to launch its delayed roll-out, starting with front-line medical workers and soldiers. | | | | | | The mayor of the northern French coastal town of Dunkirk, hit hard by a spike in COVID-19 infections, told reporters on Tuesday that he will propose that the government impose a ban on all public gatherings until March 15. | | | | | | Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: | | | | | | The Philippines will let thousands of its healthcare workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate much-needed coronavirus vaccines, a senior official said on Tuesday. | | | | | | - French researchers are using tiny antibody particles extracted from the family of animals that includes camels and llamas to produce a test they say can detect if patients have COVID-19 faster and more accurately than existing methods. | | | | | |
