Geneva: Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have now been assigned the letters of the Greek alphabet to simplify discussion and pronunciation while...
Geneva: Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have now been assigned the letters of the Greek alphabet to simplify discussion and pronunciation while...
The U.S. State Department urged against travel to Japan due to a new wave of COVID-19 infections, issuing a "Do Not Travel" advisory...
Federal Health officials are ramping up their surveillance of the highly transmissible Covid-19 variant first identified in India as experts warn that under-vaccinated...
LONDON: Two doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is around 85% to 90% effective against symptomatic disease, Public Health England (PHE) said on...
Madrid: A Spanish study on mixing COVID-19 vaccines has found that giving a dose of Pfizer's drug to people who already received a...
GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Medicago Inc. said their Covid-19 vaccine candidate spurred protective antibody levels 10 times higher than in patients who have recovered...
India's coronavirus infections surged past the 25 million mark, while Italy shortened its COVID-19 curfew and U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to send...
U.S. President Joe Biden will send at least 20 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June, marking the first...
COVID-19 vaccine developers are making ever bolder assertions that the world will need yearly booster shots, or new vaccines to tackle concerning coronavirus...
GENEVA - A new global system should be set up to respond faster to disease outbreaks, which could ensure that no future virus...
According to the World Health Organization, the more-infectious coronavirus driving a catastrophic Covid-19 epidemic in India was detected in 44 countries, which urged...
The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines...
Calls grew for India to impose a nationwide lockdown as new coronavirus cases and deaths held close to record highs on Monday, while...
GENEVA - WHO experts have voiced "very low confidence" in data provided by Chinese state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm on its COVID-19 vaccine regarding the...
GENEVA - Excessive salt in food and beverages is putting people at greater risk of potentially fatal heart disease and strokes, the World...
Moderna Inc said on Thursday it is boosting manufacturing capacity for its COVID-19 vaccine and expects to make up to 3 billion doses...
India's toll surged past 200,000 deaths and it reported a record daily surge in cases, while facing shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and...
GENEVA: Primary health care, treatment for chronic diseases and other essential medical services around the world remain disrupted by the pandemic alongside workforce...
