GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide last week was the lowest...
GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide last week was the lowest...
LONDON: Asking the world to prioritise saving lives in the world's poorest countries is increasingly challenging in a world still rocked by the...
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is set to channel John F. Kennedy on the 60th anniversary of JFK's moonshot speech, highlighting Biden administration efforts...
New York state is ending a 28-month-old COVID-19 mandate requiring masks on trains, buses and other modes of public transit, Governor Kathy Hochul...
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China's southern tech hub of Shenzhen, which went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday for mass COVID-19 testing, said it will adopt...
Beijing: China extended its lockdown in districts of western megacity Chengdu and ordered more mass testing there from Sunday as it tries to...
SHENZHEN: Most residents of the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday as mass COVID-19 testing kicked off...
NEW DELHI: The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's biggest vaccine maker, has developed the country's first cervical cancer shot that will...
GENEVA: The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally continued to fall nearly everywhere in the world in what the World...
WASHINGTON: The US on Wednesday authorised its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today’s most common omicron strain. Shots could...
A cup of tea just got a bit more relaxing. Tea can be part of a healthy diet and people who drink tea...
WASHINGTON: The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated "forever chemicals” that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances,...
Moderna sued Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Friday for patent infringement in the development of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in...
GENEVA: The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped 21% in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections and signaling...
COPENHAGEN/LONDON: Bavarian Nordic - the maker of the only approved monkeypox vaccine - said it was exploring the viability of using technically expired...
Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday he would step down from his positions as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held a ceremony to thank and praise military medics for spearheading the country's fight against the coronavirus in...
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday recommended two monoclonal antibody treatments against Ebola, saying the use of such drugs combined with...