…The tumble in profits is the latest sign of the impact of China’s persistent Covid – 19 lockdowns on its once high-flying companies….

Japan on Thursday reported a record daily high of 255,534 new coronavirus cases.

A total of 2,591 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Slovenia on Tuesday, more than a third more than a week earlier.

The number of fatalities caused by coronavirus has increased by 35% over the past four weeks and with the onset of cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere the risk of the infection spreading will only increase, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing in Geneva on Wednesday.

Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 33,106 over the past day to 18,964,246, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Wednesday.

The coronavirus pandemic led to 8,000 more suicides in Japan between March 2020 and June 2022 than would have been expected without it, a recent study calculated.

Japan on Wednesday reported 231,499 new coronavirus cases.

Mask wearing, social distancing and timely booster shots will help prevent daily coronavirus cases from growing, infectious disease expert Nikolay Malyshev told TASS.

…The reopening also coincided with the country’s biggest coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic, which was driven by the highly transmissible BA.5 Omicron sub-variant….

The use of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Venezuela makes it clear that it’s one of the most effective vaccines in the world.