Singapore has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says, paving the way for its deployment in the city-state late this year or...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the first of many freezer-packed COVID-19 vaccine vials have arrived in Canada.Trudeau tweeted a picture of them being taken off a...
Australians have made great use of free medical services during the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing bulk billing to a record high.Almost nine out of 10 visits to...
The same Oxford University team behind a successful coronavirus vaccine candidate are on the verge of entering the final stage of human trials in their jab...
Mexico has signed an agreement with Pfizer to acquire 34.4 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine.The country expects to receive 250,000 doses in the month of...
Scientists have been left surprised after sequencing the genomes of 16 wheat varieties.One of the world’s most cultivated and oldest crops, wheat is a genetically freakish...
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has denied she broke her own state’s health rules by failing to isolate herself pending the result of a coronavirus test.According to...
AstraZeneca says its COVID-19 vaccine could be around 90 per cent effective, and is potentially cheaper to make, easier to distribute and faster to scale-up than...
Some tentative signs have emerged to suggest that the UK’s coronavirus resurgence is levelling off after wide-ranging restrictions were imposed.In its weekly survey of new infections,...
The total number of deaths in France from COVID-19 has topped 40,000 for the first time while the number of new cases hit a record, health...