Health

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on Friday, while authorities who pioneered Britain’s fight against Covid-19 were also honored in the traditional New Year’s Honours. Blair was made a Knight Companion...

With the newest findings, which were the first to offer testing results and data from a working day after the Christmas break, the overall number of omicron cases found in Germany increased dramatically. On Tuesday, German...

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi is planning a trip to Russia after receiving an invitation from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, according to an Iranian government spokeswoman. This will be Raisi’s first trip to Russia since 2017....

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has committed $4.1 million in technical assistance to help Asia and the Pacific’s agri-food value chains and rural economies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects. COVID-19’s impact on the region’s food...

Israel declared on Monday that Israeli nationals will be prohibited from traveling to the United States without special permission as of Wednesday midnight local time (22:00 UTC Tuesday). Concerns about the spread of the omicron version...

The Netherlands’ shopping streets were blocked on Sunday, and people’s Christmas preparations were thrown into chaos, when the country went into lockdown to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak caused by the growth of the omicron version. On...

As the Omicron coronavirus type causes a new wave of infections around the world, leading to limits and concerns about hospital capacity, top US pandemic expert Anthony Fauci warned on Sunday of a bleak winter ahead....

United States (US) ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller has said his country will continue to donate millions more doses of Pfizer vaccines. “We will stand together with Bangladesh in its aim to vaccinate 40 percent of...

London mayor Sadiq Khan on Saturday declared a “major incident” in the British capital due to the spread of the Omicron variant. More than 65,000 new Covid cases were confirmed in London over the past seven...

The rapid spread of Omicron across Europe and beyond has heightened the urgency of an EU conference scheduled for Thursday, with leaders attempting to show a cohesive, bloc-wide approach. Projections that the altered and highly contagious...