Russia said on Friday it was ending all restrictions to combat the spread of COVID-19, including the requirement to wear masks, citing a steady decline in...
North Korea claimed on Friday that the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak began with patients touching “alien things” near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame...
The World Bank's board on Thursday approved creation of a fund meant to finance investments in strengthening the fight against pandemics. The fund will support prevention,...
The number of new coronavirus cases rose by 18 percent in the last week, with more than 4.1 million cases reported globally, according to the World...
A new wave in France of COVID-19 infections fueled by emerging variants of the disease should peak toward end-July, the French government’s top scientific adviser Jean-Francois...
More than a thousand visitors streamed in on Thursday as Walt Disney Co’s Shanghai Disney Resort theme park opened after a closure of three months, with...
The United States on Wednesday announced an agreement with Pfizer and BioNTech for 105 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine for Americans this fall. The $3.2 billion...
Germany’s BioNTech, Pfizer’s partner in COVID-19 vaccines, said the two companies would start tests on humans of next-generation shots that protect against a wide variety of...
President Xi Jinping declared COVID-Zero the most “economic and effective policy for China,” during a symbolic visit to Wuhan in which he cast the strategy as...
Outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration are meeting on Tuesday to discuss whether to change the design of COVID-19 vaccines in order to...
