The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have both designated beta as a “variant of concern.”

The EU document -- essentially a QR code available on smartphones or on paper -- shows whether the bearer is vaccinated with one of the Eur...

Britain is planning on opening up travel and easing other restrictions for people who are fully vaccinated.

IATA Director General Willie Walsh, the former boss of British Airways owner IAG, expects positive data on vaccine effectiveness to convinc...

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

Pfizer, which developed a vaccine with BioNTech, said earlier this month said that it would donate doses to inoculate athletes and official...

Starting Monday, all restaurants and bars in England can fully reopen, as can hotels, theaters and museums. And Britons will be able to hug...

Heathrow, which during the pandemic lost its crown as Europe's busiest hub to Paris, said continuing uncertainty over British government po...

The British laboratory made headlines in November when it claimed its jab could match the 90 percent effectiveness of the rival and much mo...

The earlier-than-expected recovery -- the BoE's expectation had been for early 2022 -- comes ahead of the central bank's latest interest ra...

Britain is the fifth country in the world to record 100,000 virus-related deaths, after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, and by...

Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said there would be an announcement Tuesday on plans for tighter border measures. The BBC reported that U.K...

The survey, conducted by the polling company YouGov and shared exclusively with Reuters, found Britons and Danes were the most willing to t...

Following the example of the Netherlands, where a ban on all UK passenger flights came into effect on Sunday, a German government source sa...

Record cases in at least three states - Arizona, Alabama and Ohio - pushed the cumulative case load to over 15 million, according to a Reut...

Hugs could be considered 'close contact', said health expert.

From January 1, Britons will be treated by the EU as "third country" nationals, no longer enjoying freedom of movement to work, study or re...