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New Delhi CNN  —  India’s health minister has advised the public to take precautions against Covid-19, including getting vaccinated and wearing masks, as the country remains on alert for potential new variants that could emerge from the wave of infections sweeping neighboring China. Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday told …

By Kim Jarrett (The Center Square) Twenty-five governors signed a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to end the federal public health emergency in April, saying Medicaid costs are costing their states millions. States received more money for Medicaid during the PHE but cannot remove anyone from the program’s …

House Republicans are calling on senior Biden administration officials and experts to provide documents and testimony pertaining to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. We are just 17 days out from the year …

A Florida pastor and his son were arrested Wednesday. Dec. 14, for allegedly fraudulently obtaining $8.4 million in COVID relief funds and using most of it to purchase of a luxury mansion on Disney World property.   Evan Edwards and his son Josh — the respective president and vice president of …

Governor Ron DeSantis called on the Florida Supreme Court to convene a grand jury to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” ​involving the use of COVID-19 vaccines.  “In Florida, it is illegal to mislead and misrepresent, especially when you are talking about the efficacy of a drug​,” he advised. DeSantis’ announcement …

At a hospital in the affluent Beijing district of Chaoyang, several dozen people lined up outdoors in near freezing weather on Friday at a clinic designated for fever patients. Some residents flocked to pharmacies, buying up stocks of at-home antigen Covid test kits. Many chose to stay home, leaving the …

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday expanded eligibility for the updated coronavirus shots to children as young as 6 months old, the latest step to make the retooled doses available to more Americans. The federal government rolled out the updated boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna in September, …

Covax has had to renegotiate its contracts with four suppliers of vaccines, to reduce them by between 400 and 600 million doses. Four hundred million doses from Pfizer that were coming as a donation from the United States government have been converted into future options available in 2023. “We did …

It’s that time of year, everybody! No, I’m not talking about the holiday season full of office Christmas parties you don’t want to go to, or Christmas shopping under stifling inflation. I’m talking about National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) season, when Congress sits down and passes funding for the Pentagon …

Football legend,  Pele has revealed he will be ‘rooting’ for Brazil as he watches their World Cup last-16 match against South Korea from the hospital.   The 82-year-old, who won the World Cup in his career three times in 1958, 1962, and 1970, is in the hospital to treat a respiratory infection that was …