Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled to Kazakhstan on Wednesday on his first international trip since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Russia’s COVID-19 death toll rose by 101 over the past day, reaching 385,530, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Tuesday.

Japan on Tuesday reported 87,572 new coronavirus cases.

A court in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate sentenced a 50-year-old man on Tuesday to life imprisonment over the killing of a gas station worker.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) European offices said on Tuesday that some 17 million people in Europe experienced COVID-19 symptoms long after having recovered from the disease.

…Xi Jinping will find the world much changed this week when he sets foot on foreign soil for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, central China, in early 2020….

Slovenian health authorities have conformed a total of 1,181 new cases of coronavirus during the weekend, an increase of 36% on the case count the weekend before.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Monday (12 September) recommended the authorisation of an adapted bivalent vaccine targeting the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 in addition to the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 as a booster shot.

Most COVID-19 vaccine contracts signed by the European Commission lacked specific provisions to address supply disruptions, and procurement processes could have been more scrutinised, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) found in a new report released Monday (12 September).

The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that Ukraine will see a new surge of COVID-19 in October, the organization’s Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.