WHO and experts define disease spread through the air, emphasizing ventilation importance and evidence of airborne spread, crucial for prev...

Dr Farrar, who is attending the third G20 Health Working Group meeting here, praised India for the way it has hosted the G20 presidency des...

The vaccination gaps in China's older population are all the more glaring because the country has achieved relatively strong coverage overa...

India also assured the world that it was determined to become the global vaccine capital and it is now in a position to ensure adequate sup...

The pledges come ahead of a March 8 fundraising event sponsored by the UK govt.

The paper was released Wednesday ahead of peer review, and is being prepared for submission to a journal for publication, one of the author...

How transmissible is the variant? We don't entirely know. But according to the minutes of an expert group advising the government last week...

The 1918 ‘Spanish’ flu had a mild first wave but returned later in the year to cause havoc. In India there were an estimated 12 to 20 milli...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Wednesday approved the US-made Moderna vaccine, having already given a green light December 27 to on...

More than 40 countries, including India, have banned travel to and from the UK, a move several scientists said was necessary in view of the...

In Brazil -- the epicenter of South America's outbreak with nearly 500,000 confirmed cases -- disagreement among its leaders over lockdown ...

England's lockdown will ease slightly on Monday, with groups of up to six people allowed to meet outside and primary schools re-opening to ...

The WHO's top emergencies expert Dr. Mike Ryan warned against opening up global travel too quickly, saying it would require "careful risk m...

2020 is going to be a very tough year for the markets as the economic recovery has been pushed back by coronavirus outbreak, says Sridhar S...

There is little doubt that Ebola would not have taken hold on the scale it did in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea if the health systems in...

Growing resistance to antibiotics and other drugs demands a co-ordinated global response on the same scale as efforts to address climate ch...