FILE PHOTO: A staff member wearing mask is seen at the El Dorado International Airport, in Bogota, Colombia. /Xinhua The Colombian Ministry of Health confirmed on Saturday that a new variant o
FILE PHOTO: Cropped photo of a hand wearing a nitrile glove holding a Covid-19 vaccine vial and a syringe. /Getty Images A coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa is weakening the
Click arrows to view gallery The Australian Open is underway, with 4,000-people-deep crowds cheering on star tennis players like Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka an
A woman wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus walks past a bivouac where clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines are conducted, Rabat, Morocco, December 7, 2020. /AP Morocco o
FILE PHOTO: Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London. /VCG Image London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for tougher rules on wearing face coverings outside after revealing that more than 12,000 Londoners have
People wearing protective masks wait in line to refill oxygen bottles in Manaus, Brazil, January 17, 2021. /CFP A variant of the novel coronavirus first detected in Brazil already accounts for
FILE PHOTO: Health workers wearing protective suits as a precaution lower the body of a COVID-19 victim for burial at a graveyard in Gulu, northern Uganda. /Getty Images Health systems inAfric
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has signed a new decree with fresh COVID-19 containment measures, the prime minister's office said in a statement on Friday.According to the new decree, galle
A man wearing a face mask walks on a street in Lisbon, Portugal, Jan. 15, 2021. Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa announced on Wednesday a new period of general confinement as a measure to
VCG The African Union has secured a provisional 270 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for African countries, with at least 50 million expected to be available between April and June 2021, South A
Kenya's COVID-19 caseload is the ninth-highest in Africa. /VCG Kenya's health ministry on Thursday reported 138 new COVID-19 infections from 4,526 test conducted in the last 24 hours, taking t
FILE PHOTO: People wearing face masks walk on a street in Cairo, Egypt, on Oct. 12, 2020. Egypt confirmed late on Sunday 129 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total cases registered in the cou
A server wearing a protective mask and face shield talks to a cyclist outside a restaurant in the Vila Madalena neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 6, 2020. /CFP The presence of IgG antibo
VCG More than 20,000 people have been arrested in South Africa for failing to comply with lockdown regulations since Dec. 29, 2020, when the country introduced level-three measures against the
Pedestrians wearing protective face masks walk on a nearly empty street at the Shinsekai shopping and amusement district in Osaka, Japan, January 12, 2021. /Reuters The Japanese government pla
A man wearing a face mask stands next to an advertising board reading "Stay Home Save Lives" at a bus stop in London, Britain, Jan. 10, 2020. The coronavirus-related deaths in Britain surpassed 8
People wearing face masks walk past the "London Eye" in London, Britain, Jan. 8, 2021. (Xinhua/Han Yan) Another 54,940 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total n