Tag: America

Washington: President Donald Trump has said that he will halt issuing new Green Cards or legal permanent residency for the next 60 days as part of his executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the US. However, the move will not have any impact on those entering the country on a temporary basis, Trump said […]

Washington: The number of people infected by the coronavirus in the United States crossed one million and the fatalities jumped to nearly 59,000, but several states initiated the process to reopen their economies amidst signs of decline in both new cases and deaths. We continue to pray for the victims as well as for those […]

New Delhi: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has committed $3.6 million to assist India’s efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. A US government statement said the initial tranche of funding will seek to further strengthen and support the Central government’s efforts to increase laboratory capacity for SARS-COV-2 testing, including molecular diagnostics […]

New York: A 57 page “playbook” just in from the US government outlines a comprehensive plan to make the COVID-19 vaccine available free to all Americans once it is proven safe and effective. The shot wouldn’t be broadly available to most of the US population until the summer or fall of 2021, the Director of […]

Washington: A Covid-19 vaccine could be available to “all Americans” by early April 2021, US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said. “By the end of January, enough vaccine for all of our seniors as well as our health care workers and first responders,” Xinhua news agency quoted Azar as saying in a […]

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that it’s “extremely concerned” by the recent surge in Covid-19 cases in some countries, particularly in Europe and the Americas. “Right now we are extremely concerned by the surge in cases we’re seeing in some countries. Particularly in Europe and the Americas, health workers and health systems […]