Australia has announced the reopening of its borders to vaccinated tourists and other visa holders for the first time in almost two years. “If you’re double...
Scientists in South Africa have made a copy of the Moderna Covid vaccine, a move which they say could help boost vaccination rates across Africa. The...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Europe director says the continent could soon enter a “long period of tranquillity” in the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Hans Kluge cited...
New Zealand has announced a phased reopening of its borders, as the country starts to ease some of the world’s toughest Covid restrictions. Vaccinated citizens in...
Native Americans have been one of the groups worst hit by the aggressive marketing of addictive opioids. The settlement is just the most recent in a...
If approved by US regulators, children as young as 6-months-old will get two extra-low doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. It is still unclear whether they...
The amount of waste being generated by the Covid-19 pandemic is a threat to the environment and human health, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. The...
It’s called the “stealth” variant, but there’s nothing particularly stealthy about it. Researchers are working to parse whether it is a new threat. As coronavirus case...
A new subtype of the omicron coronavirus variant is spreading in Denmark, the UK, India, Sweden and many other countries. The exact impact of the genome...
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published Tuesday found that although the omicron variant has shattered COVID-19 case and hospitalization records, other factors have shown...