Brazil's hospitals are faltering as a highly contagious coronavirus variant tears through the country, the president insists on unproven treatments and the only attempt to create a national plan to contain COVID-19 has just ...
Mar 11, 2021
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Thailand will slash mandatory hotel quarantine times for most travellers starting in April, the health minister announced Monday, with most vaccinated people facing just a week in isolation.
Mar 8, 2021
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Italy's health minister announced Friday that another region would be subject to lockdown measures due to worsening pandemic numbers fuelled by the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants.
Mar 5, 2021
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The United States recorded fewer than 40,000 new daily cases of COVID-19 for the first time in five months on Thursday, a piece of promising news as countries across the globe struggle to hold off another infection surge ...
Mar 5, 2021
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Germany's independent vaccine committee has formally approved giving the AstraZeneca shot to people aged 65 and over, and recommended waiting 12 weeks between giving the first and second doses, officials said Thursday.
Mar 4, 2021
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Moscow announced Saturday it had registered its third vaccine against the coronavirus and promised to introduce the jab to the Russian population by March.
Feb 20, 2021
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Thirty-one people have died in an outbreak of plague that erupted in northeastern DR Congo three months ago, health officials and experts said on Friday.
Feb 19, 2021
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Canada's largest city asked the Ontario provincial government on Wednesday to extend a lockdown order to at least March 9.
Feb 17, 2021
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South Africa said Tuesday it would offer its doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID vaccine to the African Union (AU) after scrapping their use due to efficacy concerns.
Feb 16, 2021
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The World Health Organization on Monday approved the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca, in a boost for poorer countries where millions of doses are set to be distributed.
Feb 15, 2021
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