NDO/VNA – Doctors in Thailand have been given the go-ahead to start giving COVID-19 vaccine booster shots under the skin, rather than injecting them into muscles, in an effort to strengthen immunity and stretch vaccine supplies. (2 hours ago)
The United States will reopen in November to air travelers from 33 countries including China, India, Brazil and most of Europe who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the White House said on Monday, easing tough pandemic-related restrictions that started early last year.
Ministers from Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia will meet with Iran at the United Nations later this week to try to give fresh momentum to stalled talks over reviving a 2015 nuclear deal, France's foreign minister said on Monday.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged leaders of the world's major economies including the United States to deliver on their commitments toward a US$100 billion per year climate fund with less than six weeks to go before a U.N. climate summit.
NDO – The candidates running for the position of Chancellor of Germany have just finished their last face-to-face debate. With just one week to go before the general election, the parties are racing against time to win more support from voters in the final sprint.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday thanked Russians for their trust after the ruling United Russia party that supports him won an emphatic parliamentary majority in an election that lasting three days, from September 17 to 19, due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
NDO – Vietnam was placed at 44th out of 132 economies around the world in the Global Innovation Index 2021 which was announced by the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on September 20.
Authorities have evacuated about 5,000 people from villages in the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma as lava spews from an erupting volcano, local officials said.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the resumption of face-to-face classes in areas deemed low risk for COVID-19, with up to 120 schools to join a two-month pilot reopening run, his education minister said on Monday.
NDO – The advent of a trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific between Australia, the UK, and the US (AUKUS) reflected a particular interest in the region. However, this new alliance also highlighted that the shift in strategic priorities of the countries can lead to disagreements and cause cracks in relations with other close allies.
NDO - Russian media quoted a source of Russia's Central Election Commission (SIK) as saying that it had recorded foreign interference in Russia's State Duma (or the lower house of parliament) elections.
NDO – According to statistics from worldometers.info as of 8am on September 20 (Vietnam time), the world has recorded a total of 229,262,049 cases of COVID-19, of which more than 4.7 million have died.
China reported on Monday 49 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the mainland for Sept. 19, down from 66 a day earlier, according to National Health Commission data.
NDO/VNA – Laos has completely locked down four central districts in its capital city of Vientiane in a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19, while Malaysia has planned to offer booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines to frontline forces and the elderly to increase their immunity.
