A total of 2,280 new daily coronavirus cases were detected in Slovenia on Monday.

The average rate of vaccination against COVID-19 in Russia has grown by nearly 30 percent over the past week, to 111,500 people a week, Russia’s public health watchdog (Roszdravnadzor) said on Tuesday.

The BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus’ Omicron strain account for 95.62 percent of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Russia in the past two weeks, Russia’s sanitary watchdog said on Tuesday.

…Citywide Covid – 19 lockdowns and nervous consumers continue to disrupt sales at Ping An, China’s largest insurer, hamstringing its agents and reducing demand for long-term protection products….

Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 30,967 over the past day to 19,181,371, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Tuesday.

Japan on Tuesday reported 208,551 new coronavirus cases.

Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 33,061 over the past day to 19,150,404, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Monday.

Japan on Monday reported 141,059 new coronavirus cases.

Russia’s coronavirus cases will peak in late August or early September, Senior Researcher at the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology Anatoly Altshtein told TASS.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida commenced working remotely Monday, a day after testing positive for the novel coronavirus at the end of his summer break.