Australia has secured access to a "promising" potential coronavirus vaccine, the prime minister announced Tuesday, saying the country would manufacture it and offer free doses to the entire population.
Australia should make any coronavirus vaccine compulsory for its 25 million citizens bar medical exemptions, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Wednesday, wading into a heated ethical debate.
Tokyo authorities say 24 people died of heatstroke in the metropolitan area in the four days through Monday, amid scorching temperatures, pushing the death toll for this month to 103.
Typhoon Higos, the seventh this year, made landfall in the city of Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province Wednesday morning, local meteorological authorities said.
More than a dozen rockets struck the Afghan capital Tuesday, wounding at least 10 civilians as the country marked the 101st anniversary of its independence, the interior ministry said.