Coronavirus pandemic live updates: WHO maintains highest alert over Covid, but sees hope ahead - Times of India

India saw a single-day rise of 66 new coronavirus cases -- the lowest since March 26, 2020 -- while the active caseload declined to 1,755, according to Union health ministry data on Tuesday.

US President Joe Biden to end Covid-19 emergency declarations on May 11: US office of management and budget

President Joe Biden will end the twin national emergencies for addressing Covid-19 on May 11, a move that formally restructures the federal response to treat the virus as an endemic threat that can be managed through agencies’ normal authorities.

"We found a substantially reduced risk of Covid-19-related death in adults with multi-morbidity who received a homologous booster dose of BNT162b2, an mRNA vaccine, or CoronaVac, an inactivated whole-virus vaccine," said Dr Esther Chan of the University of Hong Kong, with co-authors, in the study.

Dancers are back in Montreal's Old Port for the world's coldest electronic music festival after a two-year break caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said he hopes to see an end to the emergency this year, particularly if access to the counter-measures can be improved globally.