Chinese state media and officials are sowing doubts about Western vaccines and the origin of the coronavirus in an apparent bid to deflect the attacks and renewed criticism of its early COVID response

In a Friday call with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Biden outlined his plan to create new legal pathways for immigration and improve the process for people requesting asylum

Biden says, \"things are going to continue to get worse before they get better\" and offered \"the brutal truth\" that it will take eight months before a majority of Americans will be vaccinated

Indian tech industry body Nasscom hopes the new US administration will bring changes to regulatory policies hurting IT companies while working to find solutions to the STEM skills gap

Canada and the United States will continue this partnership as we fight the global COVID-19 pandemic and support a sustainable economic recovery that will build back better for everyone, said Canadian PM Justin Trudeau

As soon as Biden takes charge, he will sign 17 orders and do away with outgoing President Donald Trump's policies on immigration, environment, economy and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic

Trump will not attend the oath ceremony of Biden, becoming the first president to skip his successor's inauguration since Andrew Johnson in 1869. Trump left the White House without welcoming his successor

Soon after outgoing President Donald Trump lifted the restrictions on his last day at work, newly elected President Joe Biden extended it.

Biden campaigned last year on a promise to take the pandemic more seriously than President Donald Trump, and the package aims to put that pledge into action with an influx of resources for the coronavirus vaccine rollout and economic recovery

Expectations of a hefty COVID-19 relief package under the incoming Joe Biden administration and hopes of a rebound in corporate earnings this year have eclipsed concerns over signs that the labor market recovery has stalled amid rampant COVID-19 infections

COVID-19 herd immunity unlikely in 2021 despite mass vaccinations: WHO The World Health Organization's chief scientist warned that even as numerous countries start rolling out vaccination programs to stop Covid-19, herd immunity is highly unlikely this year. At a media briefing on Monday, Dr Soumya Swaminathan said it was critical countries and their populations maintain strict social distancing and other outbreak control measures for the foreseeable future. Bird flu outbreak confirmed in...

Chaos at Delhi airport as UK-India flights resume, flyers complain against 7-day quarantine Chaotic scenes were witnessed at the Delhi airport on Friday as many passengers arriving from the UK vociferously complained against the national capital government's belated decision to make seven-day institutional quarantine compulsory for them irrespective of their COVID-19 test results. Passenger flights resumed from the UK to India in limited numbers from Friday onwards after remaining suspended...

US, UK warn Moderna, Pfizer vaccine may cause fever, weak immunity Debates continue in India whether the two COVID-19 vaccines that got emergency use authorisation from the country's drug regulator recently are safe and efficacious. The fact sheets for vaccine recipients in US and UK for Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines say the vaccines are yet to be fully approved. Moderna's fact sheet for recipients says its vaccine is unapproved and 'may prevent COVID-19'. The UK government says it h...

Experts believe that the real numbers of US deaths and infections are much higher and that many cases were overlooked, in part because of insufficient testing

The decision will impact a large number of Indian IT professionals and several American and Indian companies who were issued H-1B visas by the US government for the FY 2021 beginning October 1

Trump had issued a memorandum in this regard on April 10 which empowered the secretary of state and the homeland security secretary to deny visas to countries refusing to accept their citizens who violated American laws

Shortly after Biden's remarks, Colorado's Governor Jared Polis said his state had discovered a case of the highly infectious coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 first detected in Britain

Harris is the second high-profile person from an ethnic minority background to receive the shot

At age 78, Biden is in the high-risk group for the highly contagious respiratory disease

President Donald Trump is supportive, particularly of the push for providing more direct payments. \"GET IT DONE,\" he said in a tweet late Saturday