PRAGUE: The Czech Republic has asked Germany, Switzerland and Poland to take in dozens of COVID-19 patients as the situation in its own...
PRAGUE: The Czech Republic has asked Germany, Switzerland and Poland to take in dozens of COVID-19 patients as the situation in its own...
LONDON: English health authorities have tracked down a previously-unidentified person who tested positive for a variant of COVID-19 first identified in northern Brazil,...
ROME: Italy's central Lazio region, which includes the capital Rome, asked the national government on Friday to consider producing Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19...
OTTAWA: Canada's drug regulator has approved Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth such shot to be given the green light, the government...
ABUJA: A doctor who has spent the past year treating COVID-19 patients on Friday became the first person in Nigeria to be vaccinated...
WARSAW: A variant of COVID-19 first identified in Britain now accounts for 25% of the reported cases in Poland, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Preliminary data from a study conducted at the University of Oxford indicates that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC...
ZURICH: Switzerland unveiled a 1 billion Swiss franc ($1.08 billion) plan on Friday to offer free coronavirus tests for its entire population as...
LONDON: Britain's Prince Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, has been transferred back to a private hospital after successfully undergoing a procedure...
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that his government is extending a state of emergency in the Tokyo region for another two...
LONDON: British artist Banksy has shared a video of himself in the process of painting stencil graffiti of a prisoner escaping which appeared...
COPENHAGEN: Denmark's health authority said on Friday it would recommend giving AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to everyone aged over 18 after a vaccination study...
CHISINAU: Moldova became the first European country to receive COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX scheme, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Friday....
GENEVA: World Health Organization officials said on Friday the risk of an Ebola outbreak spreading from Guinea to its neighbours was "very high"...
TOKYO - Japanese supercomputer simulations showed that wearing two masks gave limited benefit in blocking viral spread compared with one properly fitted mask....
NEW DELHI - India administered 1.4 million vaccine doses in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Friday, the highest in...
SHANGHAI - Despite a high-profile visit to China by a team of international experts in January, the world is no closer to knowing...
TOKYO - Takeda Pharmaceutical said it had asked regulators to approve use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, which would add a third...
