Anxious tourists in Johannesburg rushed to the airport to catch a last flight out as nations across the globe started shutting their doors

The WHO said in a statement that it had assigned the B.1.1.529 variant the Greek letter Omicron.

"The UK remains in a strong position. We've made tremendous gains as a result of the decisions that we took over the summer and the initial...

Nervousness on the new coronavirus variant and expectations of the US increasing the pace of tapering has led to recent market weakness, sa...

Asian stocks suffered their sharpest drop in two months on Friday after the detection of a new and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus v...

"Thanks to the sequencing of samples from patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, our laboratory discovered a hitherto undescribed mutation of ...

It is not known if the new strain is more dangerous and if the recently released vaccines are effective against it.

While some researchers downplay the risks, others say the chances of an emerging non-human Sars-CoV-2 reservoir and mutant strains endanger...

Biden's pledge, in his first national address since defeating Trump, followed three days of record infections in the United States and came...

Global infections have surged past 49 million and Europe has become the new pandemic epicentre in recent weeks with more than 300,000 death...

Global infections have surged past 49 million and Europe has become the new pandemic epicentre in recent weeks with more than 300,000 death...