The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the Omicron wave. He told... Read more »
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticized officials over slow medicine deliveries and mobilized the military to respond to a surge in suspected COVID-19 infections, as his nation struggled to contain what... Read more »
Reported COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have surpassed one million, according to tallies compiled from Reuters and NBC News. Numbers from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center and the Centers for Disease... Read more »
After holding to the widely doubted line for more than two years that it had a perfect record of keeping out the coronavirus, North Korea has imposed a nationwide lockdown to control its... Read more »
The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday China’s zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable given what is known of the disease, in rare public comments by the United Nations... Read more »
The COVID-19 outbreak that has shut down most of Shanghai appears to be waning, with the number of new cases falling below 10,000 a day over the weekend. Authorities have begun a... Read more »
New Zealand welcomed tourists from Canada, the U.S., Britain, Japan and more than 50 other countries for the first time in more than two years Monday after dropping most of its remaining... Read more »
Taiwan, which had been living mostly free of COVID-19, is now facing its worst outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic, with more than 11,000 new cases reported Thursday. Cases have been on... Read more »
Beijing is closing all city schools in a further tightening of COVID-19 restrictions, as China’s capital seeks to prevent a wider outbreak. The city of 21 million has already ordered three rounds... Read more »
China’s capital, Beijing, began mass testing of more than three million people on Monday and restricted residents in one part of the city to their compounds, sparking worries of a wider Shanghai-style lockdown. While... Read more »