Three passengers died from hantavirus after a cruise. The World Health Organization believes the outbreak will be limited if precautions ar...

Soaring tourism to Antarctica, driven by climate change fears, raises concerns about contamination and damage to the fragile ecosystem. A r...

Fears have emerged that an outbreak is again starting as states including Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra are witn...

UK has reported over 50% rise in weekly Covid cases while daily infections in South Africa have swelled by 75-times since the start of Nove...

South Africa is currently enduring their fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which followed the discovery of the Omicron variant last ...

Authorities in the eastern German city of Leipzig, meanwhile, said on Tuesday they had confirmed an infection with the omicron variant in a...

Bearing a worrying number of mutations that researchers fear could make it spread easily, omicron was spotted Saturday in Britain, Germany ...

Just two days after the world learned of the variant, the World Health Organization officially labeled it a “variant of concern,” its most ...

The fear was palpable in the deep shade of red that painted trading screens and it was evident in the biggest spike in the India VIX index ...

When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions. Although it...

The fear that Africa would be the epicentre of the pandemic was fuelled by a few factors. One was the presence of overcrowded informal sett...

The foundation will purchase single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccines at the discounted rate negotiated by the African Union during its 220 m...

"Many African hospitals and clinics are still far from ready to cope with a huge rise in critically ill patients," the World Health Organiz...

New Delhi termed developed countries’ argument on the sufficiency of such licensing arrangements for ramping up manufacturing capacities “w...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the coronavirus threatens Africa's progress and could push millions into extreme poverty....

As the world focuses on the pandemic, experts fear losing ground in the long fight against other infectious diseases like AIDS, tuberculosi...

Finance ministers of the G-20 group of major economies, which includes the US, China, India and others, said they will immediately put on h...