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Phuket is counting down to declaring Covid-19 an endemic disease after the tourist island reported fewer than 100 daily Covid-19 cases for the past 10 consecutive days, the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office said.

SAN FRANCISCO — Coronavirus cases are continuing to increase in California, prompting one health official to warn that the state is heading into the next wave of the pandemic.

In the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising at the United States Capitol building, the Republican Party faced a crucial moral test: whether to reject the baseless conspiracy theory that the 2020 general election had been “stolen” from Donald Trump or to embrace that dangerous falsehood as official party…

A community’s sewage holds clues about its COVID-19 burden. Over the course of the pandemic, wastewater surveillance has become an increasingly popular way to try to understand local infection trends.

The warning comes as dozens of cases of salmonella in children under the age of five are suspected to be linked to the chocolate

A heatwave in southern Asia is prompting questions about the game’s future, a discussion which cricketers can help with their influence

The COVID-19 vaccine requirement for workers in the territory's public health system will extend beyond the current mandate.

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For the past two years, one man has arguably had the biggest single impact on the way South Australians live their lives. Now moves are afoot to normalise some of Police Commissioner Grant Stevens's extraordinary powers.

There were 9,288 new confirmed Covid-19 cases and 82 coronavirus-related deaths during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Wednesday.

As mask mandates and vaccination rules kept falling across the U.S., infections from the latest COVID variants have been quietly taking hold in some places, sparking concern among public health officials but stirring a muted response from pretty much everyone else