Japan and the United States have discussed Japan's contribution to the cost of stationing US forces in the country for the first time since President Joe Biden took office.
European Union countries are divided over plans to inoculate elderly citizens with the coronavirus vaccine developed by British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.
Colombia reported 289 more deaths from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, raising the country's death toll to 54,272, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection said Monday.
The number of Nigerian healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 was becoming "worrisome," as 75 were confirmed positive in the past week, health authorities said Monday.
Over 470 infection cases of coronavirus variants have been reported in at least 32 U.S. states as of Sunday, according to the latest data of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The first delivery of COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in South Africa at a time when the country is suffering from the largest coronavirus outbreak on the African Continent.
