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Anti-vaccine and anti-restrictions protesters in Istanbul in September 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA

Ozhan told Turkish daily newspaper Sozcu that the party objects to coercive interventions to curb the pandemic and to measures that he claimed violate people's bodily integrity.

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša said that the response to the Covid-19 pandemic had been belated in particular in countries where governments needed to get parliamentary approval to take measures, as he addressed an international online conference on governments and public sector post-recovery on Monday.

The health ministry is poised to open a platform for patients in high-risk groups to make appointments for a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in September.

Haiti's authorities have informed that at least 304 people have died and 1,800 people have injured after a powerful earthquake struck the Caribbean country.

The Council of Ministers has adopted a decision to extend the state of emergency declared in response to the pandemic, which was originally set to expire on 1 August and is now to continue at least until 31 August 2021, the press office of the interim government announced.

A 59-year old Dragoljub Mrdjic and his wife Sanja. Photo: Sasa Dragojlo/BIRN

"It is my duty to be here today because this event will lead to important conclusions from which all countries will benefit ahead of a very serious pre-existing threat which emerged during the period of the pandemic" Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said addressing on Wednesday evening the international summit "Actions required to address the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and s

 World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday warned the world about the 'early stages' of COVID-19 third wave amid Delta surge.

Scotland has become the 'COVID capital' of Europe with five in ten of the areas with highest infection rates, according to the Scottish newspaper.

The Delta variant, which was first detected in India, could account for 90% of new coronavirus infections in Europe by late August, the EU's disease control agency said on Wednesday.