The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. /Getty Images The number of new COVID-19 infections reported globally fell again last week making it the third consec
People wait to take the COVID-19 test in Johannesburg, South Africa, Feb. 1, 2021. /Xinhua The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reached 3,567,552 as of Monday, the A
Coronavirus variant identified in South Africa has reached the United States with already two cases having been diagnosed in South Carolina. /Xinhua Coronavirus variant identified in South Afr
02:39 As the coronavirus mutates and takes on new forms, the variants are presenting concerns about transmission and whether vaccines will be effective. The variant originally discover
FILE PHOTO: A TAP Air Portugal Airbus 340-300 seen on the runway at Lisbon Humberto Delgado airport. /VCG Image Portugal will suspend all flights to and from Brazil until the middle of Februar
02:19 European leaders are calling for cooperation between countries - and between the private and public sectors - to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. That’s as the International Mo
The United States recorded more than 25 million cases of COVID-19 on Saturday and just under 417,000 deaths, according to the latest NBC News data. /VCG The United States recorded more than 25
FILE PHOTO: A patient receiving a coronavirus vaccine in the UK. /VCG Image The UK on Saturday reported 33,552 new confirmed coronavirus cases and an additional 1,348 deaths.The latest figures
FILE PHOTO: A nurse draws the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination centre in St Helens, United Kingdom. /VCG Image The UK on Friday reported 1,401 more COVID-19-related de
All travel corridors will close from Monday, meaning everyone arriving in the UK will have to self-isolate according to the Sky News. /VCG All travel corridors will close from Monday, meaning
A nurse dresses up to enter the intensive care unit of the COVID-19 department of the Policlinic of Tor Vergata in Rome. /Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP The number of global COVID-19-related
VCG The World Health Organization on Wednesday urged governments to step up efforts to quickly identify and study emerging variants of the coronavirus.Various countries globally have seen thei
VCG There is no indication that the coronavirus variant identified in South Africa is more contagious than the one spreading in the UK, Reuters reports the World Health Organization's technica
VCG Finland has reported two cases of the new coronavirus variant from the U.K. while another patient tested positive for the new variant from South Africa, health officials said on Monday.The
VCG Canada has confirmed two cases of the highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus first detected in Britain.The two confirmed cases are a couple from Durham Region in Ontario, the most
03:48 As of December 24, 2020, new strains of the coronavirus had been detected in the UK, Europe's second most infected country, South Africa, Africa's most infected country, and Nige
VCG Malaysia has detected a strain of the novel coronavirus that is "10 times" more infectious, the country's Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said on his Facebook on Sund