Displaced Palestinians receive meals distributed by a charity organization in the Nuseirat camp as the food crisis continues due to restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on December 13, 2025...

Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country...

Wounded Palestinians receive treatment at al-Shifa Hospital in Israeli-bombarded Gaza Strip...

A smoke plume erupts during Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 12, 2023...

A medic transports a wounded child to the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City late on November 5, 2023...

The cumulative number of global COVID-19 cases had exceeded 360...

A health professional assists a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit of the Alberto Sabogal Sologuren Hospital, in Lima, Peru, on January 12, 2022...

A health worker inoculates a boy with the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by China’s Sinovac against the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19, at a vaccination centre in Bogota, Colombia, on January 4, 2022...

A security guards walking in an area that is under restrictions following a recent coronavirus outbreak in China’s northern province...

A nurse tends to a COVID-19 patient at the intensive care unit of the Antoine Beclere hospital in Clamart, outside Paris, on December 23, 2021...

A sign advises people to wear a mask and stand 6 ft apart as travelers make their way through Miami International Airport on December 28, 2021 in Miami, Florida...

© Reuters / Jeenah Moon Major US carrier Delta blames new Covid-19 cleaning rules for turning around plane that was halfway to Shanghai Delta Air Lines halted service to Shanghai so suddenly that it turned back a flight from Seattle that was already halfway to China, reportedly leaving some passengers stranded with expiring Covid-19 tests and visas...

A COVID-19 testing center in New York City The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus is sending daily infections in parts of the United States soaring to levels higher than the pandemic peak of early 2021...

The risk of needing to stay in hospital for patients with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is 40% to 45% lower than for patients with the Delta variant, according to research by London’s Imperial College published on Wednesday...

Blanket vaccine booster programs are likely to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic rather than ending it, as inequity in access to jabs could lead to more mutated variants that drag out the crisis, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns...

Flight crew from Air China arrive in hazmat suits in the international terminal at Los Angeles International Airport on December 3, 2021...

A syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, US, February 23, 2021...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a press conference in Brussels, on December 1, 2021...

The World Health Organization’s Europe director, Dr Hans Kluge Some half a million more people could die in Europe from COVID-19 by March in the absence of urgent action, the World Health Organization warns...

Europe has once again become the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a high jump in new deaths compared to the last week, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus holds a letter he received from Doctors for Extinction Rebellion during a protest in front of the WHO headquarters, on the sidelines of the WHO’s World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 29, 2021...

In this file photo taken on March 4, 2021, vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are seen at the Belisario Porras school San Francisco neighbourhood in Panama City...

Paramedics tidy up an ambulance wearing PPE outside the Royal London hospital in London on January 10, 2021 as surging cases of the novel coronavirus are placing health services under increasing pressure...

This handout photo courtesy of Valley Children’s Healthcare shows Dr...

A medical staff member (C) wearing protective gear in a booth prepares to give tests for COVID-19 at a temporary testing station outside the City Hall in Seoul, South Korea, on December 23, 2020...

In South Korea, from 16th to the 4th of November, the third round of mass plasma donation by 2,040 people from Shincheonji Church of Jesus was accomplished...

A woman gets a self coronavirus test at a free walk-up Covid-19 testing site inside Penn Station on December 05, 2020 in New York City...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus, said that although the upcoming vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel, we simply cannot accept a world in which the poor and marginalized are trampled by the rich and powerful in the stampede for vaccines...

US electoral workers at curbside voting in St...

World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist Dr...

In this file photo taken on US President Donald Trump as he speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One as he flies from Manchester, New Hampshire to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, following a campaign rally...

Commuters wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against the coronavirus walk past an Indian national flag in New Delhi on September 16, 2020...

The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 40 new cases of COVID-19 out of 161 samples tested over the last 24 hours...

COVID-19 lockdown in Afghanistan has had a devastating impact on children with eight out of ten saying they learned little or nothing during the pandemic, a Save the Children survey found...

The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 96 new cases of the coronavirus out of 478 samples tested over the last 24 hours...

Scientists are seen working at Cobra Biologics, they are working on a potential vaccine for COVID-19, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Keele, Britain, April 30, 2020...

A worker cleans a temple’s premises as the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Chennai, India, on September 1, 2020...

Health officials wearing protective gear guide a visitor at a COVID-19 coronavirus testing station in Seoul, South Korea, on August 18, 2020...

The Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery where new graves have been dug in Manaus, Brazil (File photo) The number of coronavirus fatalities across Latin America has surpassed the 250,000 mark as the pandemic continues to overwhelm the region that has become the world’s worst-hit so far...

The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 40 new cases of the coronavirus out of 162 samples tested over the last 24 hours...

A woman is tested for the coronavirus in Kolkata, India, on July 23, 2020...

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House, July 23, 2020...

The World Health Organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Photo by AFP) The World Health Organization’s chief fires back at the US over Washington’s latest attack on the body that saw Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claiming he entered a deal with China to get his job...

A man and children wearing masks to protect against contracting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) take a walk at a Han River Park in Seoul, South Korea, April 4, 2020...

EMTs cleanse their materials outside Memorial West Hospital where coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients are treated, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, US, July 13, 2020...

A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a Vaccine COVID-19 sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken April 10, 2020...

Contact tracers with the Houston Health Department monitor the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Houston, Texas, US, on July 22, 2020...

A patient infected with the new coronavirus remains in the Doctor Alberto Antranik Eurnekian Public Hospital in Ezeiza, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 1, 2020...

Medical staff wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) treat a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit of Lviv emergency hospital, in Lviv, Ukraine, on June 30, 2020...

US President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at the White House on Tuesday, July 21, 2020...