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South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Tuesday called on restaurant and other business owners in the greater Seoul area to cooperate with social distancing rules, to head off a spread of COVID-19 during the Lunar New Year holiday.

The United Kingdom will not introduce Covid-19 vaccine passports, vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday.

A new version of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to tackle the variant first identified in South Africa “will be available for the autumn,” professor of vaccinology at Oxford University Sarah Gilbert said on Sunday.

U.S. President Joe Biden revealed his plans to raise annual refugee admissions to 125,000 in the coming fiscal year, a more than eight-fold increase after former President Donald Trump slashed levels to historic lows.

American rapper, songwriter and actress Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, known professionally as Cardi B, has dropped a new single called ‘Up’.

The White House is considering distributing face masks to all Americans, a Biden administration official confirmed to Forbes, as public health experts call for people to wear better-quality or multiple face masks to protect against the more contagious variants now spreading throughout the country.

According to a recent report by Public Health England, a mutation that could allow Covid-19 to escape antibody protection has now been found in samples of a rapidly spreading strain in the UK.

The German military on Wednesday sent more than 20 doctors and nurses together with ventilators and hospital beds to coronavirus-stricken Portugal, where a severe rise in cases has prompted several European nations to offer help.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada has signed a tentative agreement with US vaccine firm, Novavax, to produce millions of doses of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate at a facility in Montreal.

AMAZON founder, Jeff Bezos, has announced his plans to step down from his role as chief executive later this year and transition to the role of executive chair on Tuesday.