OTTAWA: Canada projects COVID-19 infections will decline rapidly over the next two months, but the more contagious Delta variant risks causing a greater-than-expected...
OTTAWA: Canada projects COVID-19 infections will decline rapidly over the next two months, but the more contagious Delta variant risks causing a greater-than-expected...
MUMBAI/BENGALURU: India's richest state on Friday ordered malls and cinema halls to close as it scrambles to control a more transmissible variant of...
Europe's medicines regulator said on Friday it had approved the production of Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine at an additional site in...
MOSCOW: Uzbekistan will limit entry into the capital city of Tashkent and curtail the activity of hospitality venues after a surge in COVID-19...
COPENHAGEN: Icelanders will no longer need to wear masks or keep a safe distance from other people as all COVID-19 restrictions will be...
BRUSSELS: The Brussels regional government announced on Friday a ban on diesel cars in the region by 2030 and petrol cars by 2035...
BILBAO: When a 72-year-old man fell unconscious into the River Nervion in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, Senegalese migrant Mouhammad Fada Diouf...
KYIV: Ukraine on Friday obliged visitors from countries affected by the COVID-19 Delta variant take a mandatory antigen test, the health ministry said....
BANGKOK: Thailand will close hundreds of construction sites and prevent workers from leaving their camps for a month, its prime minister said on...
Billionaire Richard Branson's spaceship company Virgin Galactic said on Friday it received approval from the U.S. aviation safety regulator to fly people to...
COPENHAGEN: Danish health authorities said on Friday that COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson would remain excluded from Denmark's vaccine roll-out...
GENEVA: The board of the GAVI vaccine alliance has approved a further $775 million to fund the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to lower-income...
JAKARTA - Indonesia is shifting medical emergency units in Jakarta to tents outside hospitals to create more room for COVID-19 beds, the health...
MORAVSKA NOVA VES, Czech Republic - Emergency workers and residents combed through wreckage in southern Czech Republic on Friday after a tornado and...
MOSCOW - Russia on Friday reported a record number of deaths linked to COVID-19 in Moscow, amid a surge in infections that authorities...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa aims to more than double the rate of daily COVID-19 vaccinations over the next month to more than 200,000...
BEIJING - Antibodies triggered by two Chinese COVID-19 vaccines are less effective against the Delta variant compared with other strains but the shots...
SYDNEY - Downtown Sydney and the city's eastern suburbs, which include Bondi Beach, will go into a one week lockdown from midnight Friday...