The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

The Université Laval, a public university in Quebec, has suspended Patrick Provost, a professor of microbiology and immunology, for eight weeks without pay for saying at a conference that he believes the risks of vaccinating children for COVID-19 outweigh the benefits. A university committee declared that his remarks were not…

DALLAS -- UT Southwestern researchers have created a rapid COVID-19 test that can identify different variants of the coronavirus in as little as four hours.

A total of 2.3 million people are estimate to have had the virus latest figures show

China's health authority said on Tuesday that local governments no longer need to test some imported goods for the coronavirus, in a move aimed at reducing the cost of its strict COVID-19 prevention measures.

Conservative leadership election candidates are scrambling to out-Tory each other on tax, spending cuts, Brexit, human rights and so-called ‘culture war’ issues. We look at the key things they’re saying

Triage tents are being used outside some hospitals in south-east Queensland, with the number of people hospitalised with COVID-19 across the state likely to exceed 1,000 in coming weeks — the highest number of the pandemic so far, health authorities say.

Latest figures show there are 1,055 people being treated for the virus and 38 in intensive care

Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister Yaqut Qoumas stressed that the solution to uniting Muslims lies in promoting religious or Islamic “Wasatiyyah”, or moderation. The adoption of this approach will help prevent division between people, he told Asharq Al-Awsat. On Saudi Arabia’s role in serving the Hajj pilgrims, he said the Kingdom’s…

Iron deficiency is a condition that occurs when the body lacks sufficient iron levels in the body, limiting it to perform vital functions and posing several health risks.

PUNE: The Yerawada Central Jail authorities on Sunday lodged separate complaints with the city police against two convicts on the charge of jumping emergency parole granted during the Covid pandemic to decongest the jail.

Shanghai residents queued up in sweltering heat for compulsory mass testing for COVID-19 on Tuesday, as persistent small outbreaks fuelled anxiety in a city that is still recovering from the painful two-month lockdown lifted a few weeks ago.