Healthcare

Brazil has now reported more than 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus and 48,954 deaths, marking a grim milestone for the South American ...

The baby is thought to be the youngest to die with the disease in the UK. It comes as Sheffield Children's Hospital confirmed a child died on ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the initial clinical trial results from the United Kingdom (UK) that show dexamethasone, a ...

Coronavirus and the restrictions have returned to Beijing. After eight weeks without a single locally transmitted case, parts of the capital are ...

Face coverings do protect people from catching the coronavirus and may even work better than social distancing, a study on-board a US warship ...

Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh announced Sunday that the country has achieved a victory against the novel coronavirus as it has recorded ...

Chinese authorities have declared martial law in the city of Baoding in Hebei province, amid the new COVID-19 cluster at Xinfadi, the largest ...

Dramatic spikes in auto traffic around major hospitals in Wuhan last fall suggest the novel coronavirus may have been present and spreading through ...

Lockdowns have saved more than three million lives from coronavirus in Europe, a study estimates.The team at Imperial College London said the "death ...

Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday, casting doubt ...

New Zealand is set to lift almost all its coronavirus restrictions within hours as it reports there are no active cases in the country.It will move ...

President Jair Bolsonaro threatened Friday to pull Brazil from the WHO over "ideological bias," as his counterpart Donald Trump said the US economy ...

The global number of COVID-19 cases exceeded six million as of 22:32 GMT Saturday, and the death toll surpassed 368,000, according to data from ...

The Wuhan wet market was a ‘victim’ of coronavirus rather than the cause, according to the Chinese Centre of Disease Control and ...

A troop of monkeys in India attacked a medical official and snatched away blood samples of patients who had tested positive for the novel ...

The US government is funding a website in Armenia which is spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, including warnings that ...

Tens of thousands of Covid-19 tests have been double-counted in the Government’s official tally, public health officials have ...

Around 10,000 Iranian health workers have been infected with the new coronavirus, the semi-official ILNA news agency quoted a deputy health minister ...

Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd. said it has become the world’s first company to start selling the generic version of Gilead ...

Some 108 million people in China’s northeast region are being plunged back under lockdown conditions as a new and growing cluster of ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that his country will provide $2 billion over two years to help other countries respond to the impact of ...

Australia’s foreign minister insists a motion that has won support from more than 120 countries will pave the way for an impartial, ...

Belgium’s prime minister, Sophie Wilmès, was was met with a silent protest by staff at a hospital in Brussels on Saturday. Doctors and ...

SUMMARYConfirmed COVID-19 cases have exceeded 4.6 million globally, with over 311,000 fatalities and more than 1.67 million recoveries, according to ...

The US has by far the largest number of cases, according to figures collated by Johns Hopkins University. With more than 80,000 fatalities, it also ...

Russia’s national death toll from coronavirus could be 70 per cent higher than the government’s official data show, as the Kremlin ...

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has confirmed that he has contracted the coronavirus, Sputnik reports.He has become the latest top Russian figure ...

The Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of China’s coronavirus outbreak, plans to conduct city-wide nucleic acid testing over a period of 10 ...

A worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana’s Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the ...

The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus worldwide has surpassed a quarter of a million, according to a tally of cases by Johns Hopkins ...