COPENHAGEN: Danish health authorities on Friday recommended vaccinating children aged five to 11 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The move followed approval to...
COPENHAGEN: Danish health authorities on Friday recommended vaccinating children aged five to 11 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The move followed approval to...
MADRID: Countries need to decide swiftly on applying travel restrictions linked to the new B.1.1.529 variant of COVID-19 and make such rules uniform,...
MOSCOW: Rescue crews have found a survivor in a Siberian coal mine where dozens of miners are presumed dead after a devastating methane...
FRANKFURT: BioNTech, the inventor of the western world's most widely used COVID-19 vaccine, said it expects more data on a worrying new coronavirus...
BRUSSELS: Belgium detected Europe's first confirmed case of the new variant of COVID-19 on Friday, and at the same time announced measures aimed...
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...
MANILA: The Philippines suspended inbound international flights on Friday from South Africa and other countries with cases or the likelihood of cases of...
The European Union might halt air travel from places where a new coronavirus variant detected in South Africa had spread, the bloc's executive...
BENGALURU: Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's biggest vaccine maker, said on Friday it shipped the first batch of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine,...
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,...
JOHANNESBURG- South Africa said on Friday a British ban on flights from six southern African countries over a new COVID-19 variant seemed rushed,...
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...
