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The European Commission will propose three laws targeting health and environment-damaging air and water pollution.
A lab analysis of the four products confirms the presence of unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, which are toxic to humans when consumed and can prove fatal.
In some large Indian cities, the proportion of pedestrians killed is up to 60 per cent of all road traffic deaths
The all-woman ASHA workers were honoured for their crucial role in the battle against COVID-19 and for providing access to healthcare services in rural areas.
The WHO said the vaccine is effective and no safety concerns exist, but the suspension of production for export will result in the interruption of Covaxin supply.
A study by Chinese researchers had concluded that a type of coronavirus, NeoCov, that spreads among bats in South Africa may pose a threat to humans in future if it mutates further.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said at a press briefing that he's "highly concerned that Omicron being more transmissible, circulating at the same time as Delta -- is leading to a tsunami of cases."
The overall threat posed by Omicron largely depends on three key questions - its transmissibility; how well the vaccines and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection protect against it, and how virulent the variant is as compared to other variants.
Angelique Coetzee, Chairman of South African Medical Association, called the decision by 18 countries to ban flights to and from South Africa as premature.
The World Health Organisation has warned that 53 European and Central Asian countries were under the real threat of a resurgence of a pandemic.