At the small hospital where Dr. Oumaima Djarma works in Chad’s capital, there are no debates over which coronavirus vaccine is the best. There are simply no vaccines at all. Continue Reading
India on Saturday reported its highest ever single-day COVID-19 death toll, as cases continued to rise and states imposed stricter lockdowns. India’s health ministry reported 4,187 fatalities over the past Continue Reading
Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is threatening to keep its ships out of Florida after the governor signed legislation banning businesses from requiring that customers show proof of vaccination against Continue Reading
European Union President Ursula von der Leyen says the 27-nation bloc is ready to talk about the U.S. proposal to share the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines to help speed the Continue Reading
The contrast could hardly be sharper. n much of the developed world, vaccine orders are soaring into the billions of doses, Covid-19 cases are easing, economies are poised to roar to Continue Reading
President Joe Biden set a new vaccination goal to deliver at least one shot to 70% of adult Americans by July Fourth as he tackles the vexing problem of winning Continue Reading
While India battles a catastrophic second wave of Covid-19 infections, health officials in Africa are watching with alarm as their immunization campaigns, heavily dependent on vaccine imports from the subcontinent, Continue Reading
The mystery surfaced early in the pandemic. Hospitals were jammed with coronavirus victims, but the official death count in Mexico City appeared suspiciously low. Sitting at her dining-room table one afternoon, Laurianne Despeghel, Continue Reading
The next generation of Covid-19 vaccines in development could come as a pill or a nasal spray and be easier to store and transport than the current handful of shots Continue Reading
The United States this week will start talks with the World Trade Organization to potentially lift intellectual property rights on lifesaving coronavirus vaccines, as a devastating covid-19 outbreak in India Continue Reading
The spring wave of coronavirus infections that began in March is subsiding in most of the country, with 42 states and D.C. reporting lower caseloads for the past two weeks. Hospitals Continue Reading
Vaccines appear to be starting to curb new Covid-19 infections in the U.S., a breakthrough that could help people return to more normal activities as infection worries fade, public-health officials Continue Reading
Delhi has been cremating so many bodies of COVID-19 victims that authorities are getting requests to start cutting down trees in city parks for kindling, as a record surge of Continue Reading
While hopes are rising that a rapid rollout of Covid-19 vaccines is helping to tame the pandemic in the U.S., in much of the world the virus is still surging. Covid-19 Continue Reading
Pakistan on Saturday reported its highest COVID-19 death toll in a single day. Authorities reported 157 deaths, bringing the overall fatalities to 16,999. A total of 5,908 additional cases pushed Continue Reading
Rail-thin teenagers hold placards at traffic stops with the word for hunger — fome — in large print. Children, many of whom have been out of school for over a Continue Reading
The U.S. death rate in 2020 was the highest above normal ever recorded in the country — even surpassing the calamity of the 1918 flu pandemic. Death rate above and Continue Reading
An influential U.S. federal advisory panel is set to meet Friday to potentially decide the fate of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine rollout, as more reports emerged of rare but Continue Reading
The U.S. State Department said on Monday it will boost its “Do Not Travel” guidance to about 80% of countries worldwide, citing “unprecedented risk to travelers” from the COVID-19 pandemic Continue Reading
Frustrated by slow and uncertain vaccination drives around the world, some of the nine million Americans living abroad are coming home to get their Covid-19 shots. For many, the risks of Continue Reading
The pandemic now looks very different depending on where you are in the United States. While some states have seen the crisis start to dissipate, a spring wave of coronavirus infections Continue Reading
A group of 175 former world leaders and Nobel laureates is urging the US to take “urgent action” to suspend intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines to help boost global Continue Reading
After a day that many hoped might add clarity to the rollout of Johnson & Johnson’s troubled Covid-19 vaccine, the picture on Thursday is as muddy as ever in the Continue Reading
Far beyond the United States and Europe, the safety scares engulfing the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines have jeopardized campaigns to inoculate the world, undercutting faith in two sorely Continue Reading
Slideshow ( 2 images ) BERLIN (Reuters) – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany jumped on Thursday by 29,426 to 3.073 million, the biggest increase since Jan. 8 Continue Reading
From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, US cities, states, and even villages made up their own rules and called it freedom. That approach to combating coronavirus arguably led to Continue Reading
A more transmissible coronavirus variant first detected in Britain does not cause more severe illness in hospitalized patients, according to a new study published by the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. The study, Continue Reading
Doctors in the Canadian province of Ontario may soon have to decide who can and cannot receive treatment in intensive care as the number of coronavirus infections sets records and Continue Reading
A few weeks ago, doctors in Michigan hospitals began noticing their intensive care units were filling up again with coronavirus patients — something they had hoped the state’s high level Continue Reading
Hospitals in Turkey and Poland are filling up. Pakistan is restricting domestic travel. The U.S. government will send more help to the state with the country’s worst infection increase. The Continue Reading
Spain and Italy have moved to limit the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to people aged above 60, in shifts that will complicate the countries’ efforts to step up their vaccination Continue Reading
Some Polish doctors and nurses are just taking naps between shifts as they fight a third wave of the coronavirus, the health minister said on Friday, amid reports of medical Continue Reading
Public health experts are raising alarm over Brazil this week, as the pandemic-hit nation has reached several grim coronavirus milestones, including a record number of deaths and the possible spread Continue Reading
A highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that was first identified in Britain has become the most common source of new infections in the United States, the director of the Continue Reading
The U.K.’s vaccines advisory body said the Covid-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca PLC should preferably not be given to people under 30 following concerns that it causes potentially deadly blood clots in Continue Reading
Nearly 80 percent of school staff and child care workers in the United States have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Continue Reading
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday called for speeding up the distribution of coronavirus vaccines in poorer nations, arguing the United States and global economies are threatened by the impact of Continue Reading
More than a year after the start of the pandemic, Europe is enduring a grim spring. Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths are rising in many countries as the continent grapples Continue Reading
French President Emmanuel Macron announced a nationwide four-week lockdown, closing schools and business, in the latest and alarming sign that Europe is yet again losing control of the pandemic. “We did Continue Reading
Russia has lauded with much fanfare the arrival of its homegrown vaccine, Sputnik V, in Latin America and Africa, and even in some countries in Europe, calling it a solution Continue Reading
Germany’s third wave of the coronavirus could be the worst so far and 100,000 new daily infections is not out of the question, the head of the Robert Koch Institute Continue Reading
European governments have warned that their hospitals are at risk of being overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases as leaders struggle to get a grip on the pandemic after a week of Continue Reading
For the past five weeks, nurses at Cobre Valley medical center in Globe, Arizona, have been vaccinating anyone aged 18 and over, after becoming one of the first places in Continue Reading
India is experiencing a sharp rise in coronavirus infections, increasing pressure on New Delhi to accelerate its vaccine rollout and puzzling scientists after a retreat of the pandemic had buoyed Continue Reading
Hungary’s hospitals are under “extraordinary” pressure from rising coronavirus infections, its surgeon general said on Wednesday, as the country became a hotspot in the third wave of a pandemic that Continue Reading
More than 20,000 white crosses have appeared painted on the cobblestones of a medieval square in central Prague, each representing a victim of Covid-19 — an effort highlighting the ravages Continue Reading
India has detected a new “double mutant variant” of the novel coronavirus, the health ministry said on Wednesday, adding to concern as the government struggles with the highest single-day tally Continue Reading
Poland will likely have to toughen COVID-19 restrictions again after reporting what early figures suggest will be a record number of new infections on Wednesday, the prime minister’s top aide Continue Reading
Newly reported coronavirus cases in the U.S. edged higher, but remained below 50,000, as many states push forward with vaccinations programs and look to reopen schools. The U.S. reported more Continue Reading
Fauci Addresses the Safety of the AstraZeneca Vaccine Dr. Anthony S. Fauci on Monday discussed the U.S. clinical trial that ruled the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca effective against Covid-19. The Continue Reading
