The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 68 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday.

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere have reached record levels last year, the UN warns.

Iran has launched the second production line of the COVIran Barekat vaccine, developed by experts at the Headquarters for Executing the Order of Imam Khomeini.

Iran’s Judiciary chief says the US has a history of carrying out numerous dangerous drug trials on peoples around the world.

The crush of new COVID-19 infections in Mississippi has become so dire that the state has turned to efforts reminiscent of the earliest days of the US pandemic, when a field hospital was set up in New York's Central Park and a medical ship was moored in the Hudson River.

Chinese health officials say they are bringing the country's worst COVID outbreak in months-- the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant-- under control.

The number of COVID-19 cases in the world may exceed 300 million at the beginning of next year if the current rate of the spread of the infection is not stopped, the WHO says.

Bahrainis have staged rallied across the country to express solidarity with political prisoners, and demand their freedom amid the coronavirus pandemic.

US President Joe Biden has reversed many immigration policies introduced by his mercurial Republican predecessor, but has continued with the controversial ‘Title 42’ policy.

The latest wave has been described by health officials as an “outbreak of the unvaccinated.”