[caption id="attachment_17150" align="alignnone" width="2560"] A pandemic prevention worker wears a protective suit as he checks personal details of a woman lining up to get a...

LONDON: The British scientists behind one of the major therapeutic COVID-19 trials have turned their focus to treatments for monkeypox, a viral disease that has...

SHANGHAI: Parts of Tibet are running mass Covid-19 testing today, including the Chinese autonomous region's two largest cities, to fight a rare flare-up, while clusters...

SYDNEY: Australia's Covid-19 winter outbreak fuelled by the new Omicron sub-variants BA.4/5 may have peaked early, Health Minister Mark Butler said today, as hospitals reported...

TEHRAN: Iranian officials closed government offices, courts, schools and universities in Tehran on Monday after a severe sandstorm hit the capital, state media reported. "The...

SEOUL: North Korea claimed today the country's first Covid outbreak began with patients touching “alien things” near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame...

LONDON: The Omicron variant of coronavirus is less likely to cause long Covid than previous variants, according to the first peer-reviewed study of its kind...

GENEVA: Scientists advising the World Health Organization on how to move forward investigating the origins of Covid-19 said Thursday further studies were needed into whether...