Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is snubbing new calls of COVID restrictions amid the rising cases in the country, saying that there would be "no national lockdown."
Prioritizing personal freedom and the private choices of his people, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered on Tuesday to ban the state government and private entities from imposing COVID-19 vaccine passports in accessing services.
COVID-19 cases are rising once again across the United States including hospitalizations, particularly in younger people. Health experts call this the fourth COVID surge.
Compared to the United States-born men and women who do not have Hispanic blood, Latinos of working ages 20 to 54 are 11 times more prone to die of COVID-19 based on a recent study.
Argentina President tested positive for COVID-19 despite being immunized against the disease. The president received a jab of the vaccine earlier in the year.
About 15 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine were ruined after workers at a manufacturing plant accidentally conflated the vaccines' ingredients. This causes a delay in the authorization of the production lines.
A joint study from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese scientists on the origins of COVID-19 said it is likely that it originated from bats.
The latest revision of the Mexican health ministry on the country's COVID-19 death toll has placed Mexico as the second with the highest COVID deaths globally.
The White House is working with private companies to develop a standard when it comes to vaccine passports that would prove Americans that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as establishments are trying to reopen.
Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), believes that the COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.
