Health

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine unveiled a lottery system Wednesday to entice people to get COVID-19 shots, offering a weekly $1...

Evidence is growing that a troubling variant of the coronavirus discovered in India is more transmissible than the variant first detected in Kent and...

Cuba started a mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 on Wednesday using one of its five homegrown vaccine candidates which, if proven effective, could improve...

Reuters- Hellen Ñañez has suffered enough tragedy for a lifetime. The Peruvian 28-year-old mother has mourned the death of 13 close relatives since the...

Reuters A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a "Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine" sticker in this illustration taken, October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo Venezuela's main...

Spread of Indian Covid variant has not deterred PM from return of cinemas and indoor hospitality and permitting mixing at home Bars, museums and cinemas...

India's main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi warned on Friday that unless the deadly second COVID-19 wave sweeping the country was brought under control it...

Allison LampertSteve Scherer   5 minute read 1/2 A U.S. and a Canadian flag flutter at the Canada-United States border crossing at the Thousand Islands Bridge, which remains...

Biden backs COVID-19 vaccine patent waivers The Biden administration will support a proposal to temporarily waive international patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines, a move that's...

BBC- On Monday, a senior official from India's federal government told journalists that there was no shortage of oxygen in Delhi or anywhere else...

BBC- India has recorded more than 20 million Covid infections, but the government says that cases are "slowing down". The country added more than...

Hospitals are full’ as Argentina COVID-19 cases hit 3 million Reuters   1/2 A demonstrator holds an Argentinian flag as they protest against Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez's lockdown...

Huge surge in cases followed erroneous ‘supermodelling’ study suggesting herd immunity had been achieved by Michael Safi Guardian (UK) They will be remembered as India’s lost months:...

People in the Indian state of West Bengal are voting in the final phase of elections despite soaring Covid cases. Long queues were seen outside...

‘We’re all in this together’: Dr Fauci says world has failed India as Covid cases surge US’s top infectious disease expert lambasts wealthy countries for...

Moscow, Apr 27 (Prensa Latina) Scientists in Russia warned of the possibility that in the next three to five years there will be a...

US to share millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses with other countries The Biden administration on Monday announced that it will move to donate millions of...

Reuters Mexico's top diplomat traveled to Moscow on Sunday for a visit with Russian officials, his office said, amid talks to hammer out plans for...

Washington reverses vaccine export ban while Downing Street dispatches ventilators and oxygen People queue to get tested for Covid-19 in Hyderabad, India, on Sunday. The...

BBC- Researchers in Britain have developed the world’s most effective malaria vaccine, with it becoming the first to achieve the World Health Organization-specified 75...