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Nader Saad, the Egyptian Cabinet spokesman, said that coronavirus vaccination will be mandatory for everyone involved in the educational process in Egypt.

In Louisiana, more than 3,000 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19.

America's kids, more vulnerable than ever to Covid-19 and in the crossfire of a political war over masks, are going back to class in a timeless rite transformed into a moment of fear by the pandemic that interrupted their childhood.

Nurses and other healthcare workers across the nation are warning of going on strike early next month, calling for expanded public health services and infrastructure as well as improved working conditions.

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran has exceeded 100,000, with over 560 more Iranians succumbing to the deadly disease in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry.

The daily death toll from the coronavirus in Iran was down to 583 on Wednesday as officials have hinted at signs that the fifth wave of the pandemic is passing its peak.

Japan was the largest provider of development aid in response to the COVID-19 health and economic crisis among the Group of Seven industrialized nations in 2020 despite the hit its economy suffered during the pandemic, according to an independent study.

An increasing number of people are expressing distrust in, and complaints about, government policies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, as they have failed to contain the surge of infections despite having been raised to the highest level in the Seoul metropolitan area for more than a month.

As the Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads to more than half of China’s provinces, the whole country hunkers down while economic forecasts go south.

As the Delta variant pummels its way through communities and sparks a fourth COVID-19 wave, vaccines are buttressing many from the worst outcomes of the virus. But for the unvaccinated — including kids — the threat of COVID-19 remains very real.