Washington: The World Health Organization has warned that vaccines will be no magic bullet for the coronavirus crisis as nations gear up for...
Washington: The World Health Organization has warned that vaccines will be no magic bullet for the coronavirus crisis as nations gear up for...
ZURICH: Switzerland on Friday said it would allow ski resorts to remain open for domestic tourism but announced some stricter measures including banning...
GENEVA: Recent progress on COVID-19 vaccines is positive but the World Health Organization is concerned this has led to a growing perception that...
OSLO: Norway plans to use the three vaccines developed by Moderna, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and BioNTech in its first push to inoculate its population...
WURZBURG, Germany: At first sight, they look like regular containers. But the rectangular boxes made by German company Va-Q-Tec will in fact play...
MOSCOW: Moscow launched an online service on Friday for people to book appointments to be vaccinated against COVID-19, two days after President Vladimir...
Copenhagen - The World Health Organization said it was considering introducing electronic vaccination certificates, as hopes for an end to the pandemic were...
ROME - Italy approved new restrictions on Thursday to avoid a surge in novel coronavirus infections over Christmas and the New Year, banning...
LONDON - Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious diseases expert, apologised on Thursday after casting doubt over the rigor of the British regulators...
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday decried countries - without naming names - who rejected the facts about the...
LISBON - Portugal's government announced on Thursday a nationwide plan to vaccinate people against the coronavirus voluntarily and free of charge, and said...
LONDON: England's National Health Service (NHS) is looking at ways to deploy Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine in care homes with the medical regulator, but...
Rome: Global food commodity prices rose sharply in November to their highest level in nearly six years, the UN food agency said Thursday,...
MOSCOW: Moscow will open its new COVID-19 vaccination centres on Saturday and the first people to receive the shot will be teachers, doctors...
PARIS: Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who championed European integration and helped modernise French society in the 1970s, has died at the age...
LONDON - Britain's Prince Harry has suggested that the coronavirus pandemic is a rebuke from nature as he called for more action to...
BERLIN - Germany will extend restrictive measures designed to stem a tide of new COVID-19 infections until Jan. 10, Chancellor Angela Merkel said...
ATHENS - Pfizer Inc's chief executive, Albert Bourla, said on Wednesday he was confident that by the end of 2021 there would be...