MADRID: Spain's cabinet will restrict flights from South Africa and Botswana over concerns about a highly contagious new COVID-19 variant there, Health Minister...
MADRID: Spain's cabinet will restrict flights from South Africa and Botswana over concerns about a highly contagious new COVID-19 variant there, Health Minister...
The European Union might halt air travel from places where a new coronavirus variant detected in South Africa had spread, the bloc's executive...
Merck & Co said on Friday updated data from its study on its experimental COVID-19 pill showed the drug was less effective in...
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday cautioned countries against hastily imposing travel restrictions linked to the new B.1.1.529 variant of COVID-19,...
AMSTERDAM- The Dutch government said on Friday it will halt air traffic from Southern Africa starting at noon, following the detection of a...
GENEVA- The World Health Organization is convening an experts' meeting from Geneva at midday (1100 GMT) on Friday to assess the new COVID-19...
BERLIN- Germany readied its air force to transfer COVID-19 patients from overwhelmed hospitals in the south as national case numbers rocketed and a...
LONDON- European and Asian countries tightened travel curbs on Friday after a new and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant was detected in South Africa,...
LONDON- Six African countries will be added to England's travel "red list" after the UK Health Security Agency flagged concern over a new...
LONDON- LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A newly identified coronavirus variant that has spread in South Africa is the most concerning that British...
PRAGUE- Czech President Milos Zeman was taken back to hospital on Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus, his office said, just hours...
LISBON- Portugal, which has one of the world's highest rates of vaccination against COVID-19, announced it would reimpose some restrictions to stop a...
GENEVA- Switzerland is open to compromise in talks on the intellectual property (IP) rights of COVID-19 vaccines and drugs at the World Trade...
PRAGUE- The Czech government on Thursday orderedcafes to close at 10 p.m. and banned Christmas markets in an attempt to stem one of...
BRUSSELS: The European Union warned member countries today that they risk undermining the 27-nation bloc’s COVID-19 travel and access certificate system with new...
MOSCOW: At least 11 miners died in a coal mining accident in Russia's Siberia today and an operation to rescue dozens more people...
The European Union drug regulator on Thursday approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11,...
BERLIN: Germany crossed the sombre threshold of 100,000 COVID-19-related deaths on Thursday with a surge in new infections posing a challenge for the...
