Chile registered 30,675 Covid-19 infections and 224 deaths from the disease in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,953,895 confirmed cases and 41,795 deaths, the Ministry of Health has said. ...
New Zealand recorded 12,011 new community cases of Covid-19 on Friday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement....
The UN is appalled by the slaying of eight workers on polio-vaccination teams in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz and Takhar provinces, a UN Spokesman said....
Spraying face masks with sanitiser reduces their effectiveness, Australian scientists have found....
European drugmakers Sanofi and GSK have announced positive results from late-stage clinical testing of a new vaccine that will be named Vidprevtyn, media report says....
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and the Presidents of five...
Ireland will remove the rules of mandatory mask wearing in indoor public facilities and on public transport starting from February 28, said the Irish government....
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said people must be at the centre of post-pandemic recovery at a meeting to examine the economic and social impact of the crisis....
Tanzanian youth are accounting for 50 per cent of the new HIV/AIDS cases in Tanzania, according to an organisation. ...
Infection spread with exhaled air is well known, but a new study has shown that a few breaths are sufficient for detecting traces of viruses microscopically small fluid droplets exhaled during a very short time span. ...