 | | | | The head of the World Trade Organization said there was a pathway for a global deal to get more COVID-19 vaccines to developing countries, despite a split over whether drugs firms should be stripped of their intellectual property rights. | | | | | | A cluster of Delta-variant COVID-19 infections has been detected at an art school in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, the regional health authority said on Saturday. | | | | | | Russia has tested a nasal spray form of its COVID-19 vaccine that is suitable for children aged 8-12, and plans to launch the new product in September, the scientist who led the development of the Sputnik V vaccine said on Saturday. | | | | | | India on Saturday cut taxes on medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators and drugs used to treat COVID-19 infections, after widespread criticism over healthcare costs during a devastating second wave of the virus in April and May. | | | | | | Chilean health authorities announced a blanket lockdown across the capital Santiago on Thursday following some of the worst COVID-19 case numbers since the pandemic began, despite having fully vaccinated more than half its population. | | | | | | Rising COVID case numbers and hospitalisations are a matter of "serious, serious concern", British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday, adding he was less optimistic about reopening the country than he was last month. | | | | | | Moscow's mayor has effectively declared a public holiday for all of next week to combat a surge in COVID-19 cases. | | | | | | China reported 35 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for June 11, up from 22 a day earlier, the country's health authority said on Saturday. | | | | | | Vietnam has approved the COVID-19 vaccine jointly made by Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech (22UAy.DE) for domestic emergency use, the government said on Saturday. | | | | | | South African health inspectors will carry out further checks on a batch of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) COVID-19 vaccines following a contamination error earlier this year at the U.S. plant where the doses were produced, the health ministry said. | | | | | |
