More than 1.2 million people died worldwide in 2019 from infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotics, according to the largest study of the issue to...
Boris Johnson is expected to announce an easing of England’s Covid rules when he makes a statement on Plan B later. The cabinet will review the...
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning to world leaders that the coronavirus pandemic “is nowhere near over”. Dr Tedros Adhanom...
A group of inmates at a jail in the US state of Arkansas are taking legal action, saying they were unknowingly prescribed the horse deworming drug...
Hong Kong police say two former flight attendants have been arrested and charged for allegedly breaking the city’s coronavirus restrictions. Police said the two had “conducted...
The minimum self-isolation period for people testing positive for Covid-19 in England has been cut to five full days. The quarantine period has been reduced after...
The pandemic has made the world’s wealthiest far richer but has led to more people living in poverty, according to the charity Oxfam. Lower incomes for...
The World Health Organisation has disclosed that the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 is dominant among the cases recently recorded in Nigeria. In a report released...
The US Supreme Court has blocked President Joe Biden’s rule requiring workers at large companies to be vaccinated or masked and tested weekly. The justices at...
The number of people on a hospital waiting list in England has hit six million for the first time, NHS data shows. Around one in 20...