The world is caught in a perfect storm of rising rates of chronic disease, persistent infectious diseases and public health failures that have fuelled deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a ...

New cases of COVID-19 are increasing nationwide, fueled by the Stratus variant, an emerging offshoot of the Omicron variant. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the ...

Stratus was first identified in Southeast Asia in January, according to WHO, and has so far spread to 38 countries.

Countries around the world agonised over new coronavirus curbs ahead of Christmas and other holidays as global infections approached 60 million on Wednesday and U.S. officials pleaded with Americans ...

A late summer surge of Covid-19 is spreading across the US from a cluster of South Central states, latest data shows. The spike is highest across a region covering Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, ...