The US economy created the fewest jobs in seven months in August as hiring in the leisure and hospitality sector stalled amid a resurgence in COVID-19 infections.

Japan temporarily suspends the use of an additional one million doses of American Moderna coronavirus vaccine over deadly contamination reports.

Vietnam deploys troops to its largest city to help the police enforce a strict coronavirus lockdown, following a sharp rise in the number of COVID infections.

Press TV journalist Mahan Abedin has passed away after contracting COVID-19.

The alarming surge in new hospitalizations comes amid growing debate over mandatory mask wearing and debilitating health care facilities with hospitals stretched to capacity

Covid-19 cases in the United States could soon return to 200,000 a day, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has warned.

The number of children hospitalized across the US with COVID-19 has hit a record high of just over 1,900 as hospitals in southern states were stretched to capacity fighting outbreaks caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant.

Iran issues a full nationwide lockdown to contain a new wave of coronavirus infections.

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

Iran's local vaccine, COVIRAN, has launched the second production facility.