About 80% of the population has yet to be fully vaccinated.... The government defended its elimination strategy, saying it was still the best option for New Zealand." It's too soon to throw in the towel.... We’ve come this far – it would be an absolute waste for us to give up on this now," COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said at a news conference." You will see changes in the medium term and in the way we manage the border....

The need for redefining the role of the state and the government for achieving sustainable and inclusive growth cannot be over-emphasised.... Secondly, does the solution lie in return to a highly centralised system or wider dispersal of authority and responsibility?... Looking at the historical legacy, the centralisation at the cost of democracy and the corresponding command economy led to the collapse of the Soviet empire....

TOKYO( Reuters)-Japan was poised on Wednesday to widen COVID-19 controls to cover half its

.... The coronavirus outbreak will have a lasting impact on China and the rest of the world long after the

As the U.S. rolls out booster shots, vaccination rate in low-income countries stands at 2.2%, feeding fears of new variantsThe central African nation of Burundi has yet to administer a single Covid-19 vaccine.... In Uganda, people line up for hours outside hospitals only to be turned away amid dwindling vaccine supplies. Nearly 10 months after the first Covid-19 vaccine became available to the public, the divide between nations that have shots and those that don’t is starker than ever.... In I

--In Democratic-led Washington state, just four lawmakers were present in the 98-member House this week as they convened a mostly remote session with an abundance of caution.... Republican objections are rooted largely in libertarian ideology.“ To have something injected into your body as a condition of employment lest you be fired or not hired, well it’s not American," said Missouri state Rep.... Other Missouri bills would bar COVID-19 vaccine mandates in schools and hold employers liable for

Pakistan, striving to maintain the growth momentum, suffered a setback last week when China stepped away from the virtual 10th Joint Cooperation Committee( JCC) meeting at the eleventh hour.... Besides exchanging notes on the issues of mutual interest, they intended to decide on a host of pending matters related to project implementation under CPEC.... Commenting on what businesses read into the evolving situation, Pakistan Business Council CEO Ehsan Malik emailed a politically apt statement..

public health crisis spirals into a political one, and set the stage for a widening struggle between

In Democratic-led Washington state, just four lawmakers were present in the 98-member House this week as they convened a mostly remote session with an abundance of caution.... Republican objections are rooted largely in libertarian ideology.“ To have something injected into your body as a condition of employment lest you be fired or not hired, well it’s not American," said Missouri state Rep.... Other Missouri bills would bar COVID-19 vaccine mandates in schools and hold employers liable for a

KUALA LUMPUR: The police will be expanding their hunt on the sale of fake Covid-19 vaccination certificates in other states following the arrest of a doctor in Terengganu this week. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said Bukit Aman was treating the matter very seriously.“ We are not sure at this time whether there are others who are selling such certificates.“ I have instructed both the directors of the CID and CCID to collect intelligence to uncover whether such activ