KATHMANDU, Jan 30: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Saturday changed his statement of administering every Nepali citizen with the COVID-19 vaccine within the next three months.

NEW JERSEY, Jan 29: Johnson & Johnson on Friday said its single-dose vaccine was 72% effective in preventing COVID-19 in the United States but a lower rate of 66% was observed globally in the large trial conducted across three continents and against multiple variants.

KATHMANDU, Jan 29: Following a month of travel restrictions to and from the United Kingdom (UK) owing to the severe contagion of a new strain of the novel coronavirus, the government of Nepal has decided to lift the restriction, allowing passengers coming to Nepal from the European nation.

Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Romania kills four patients

Published On: January 29, 2021 01:22 PM NPT By: Republica

BUCHAREST, Jan 29: A fire killed four patients at a COVID-19 hospital in the Romanian capital Bucharest early on Friday and 102 others were evacuated, officials said, the second deadly hospital fire in the European Union state in under three months.

More Indian-made covid vaccines will be released - PM Modi

Published On: January 29, 2021 08:47 AM NPT By: Reuters

NEW DELHI, Jan 29:  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country would release more locally made COVID-19 vaccines as New Delhi continues to save the lives of people in other countries by exporting medicines and vaccines.

LONDON/BRUSSELS, Jan 28: Europe’s fight to secure COVID-19 vaccine supplies intensified on Thursday when the European Union said it would tighten oversight of exports after a row with AstraZeneca and Britain demanded that it receive all the shots it paid for.

WUHAN, CHINA, Jan 28: A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic left a quarantine hotel in Wuhan on Thursday to begin field work, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city where the virus emerged in late 2019.

Almost 10,000 frontline workers got a shot of the vaccine on the first day of the campaign

Coronavirus infection found in cat for the first time in South Korea

Published On: January 27, 2021 01:41 PM NPT By: RSS

KATHMANDU, Jan 27: Coronavirus infection has been confirmed in a cat for the first time in South Korea.

POKHARA, Jan 27: Receiving a shot of India’s ‘Covishield’ vaccine, Dr Budhi Bahadur Thapa, Vice-chancellor at Pokhara Institute of Health Sciences, kicked off COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Gandaki Province today.