Browsing: World Health Organization

Japan, the world’s third-biggest economy, will close its borders to all foreigners, while Australia’s plans to re-open to skilled migrants…

Israel is to ban foreigners from entering the country for 14 days and use surveillance to halt the spread of…

Brazil will shut its borders to travellers arriving from six southern African countries, the chief of staff to President Jair…

Sixty-one people who arrived in Amsterdam on two flights from South Africa have tested positive for Covid-19, Dutch officials say.…

The US will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other southern African countries to try to contain a new…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a new coronavirus variant to be “of concern” and named it Omicron. It…

Britain is halting all flights from South Africa and five other countries in the region in response to the discovery…

Scientists in South Africa said Thursday they had detected a new Covid-19 variant with a large number of mutations, blaming…

A further 700,000 people could die of Covid by March in Europe and parts of Asia, the World Health Organization…

The human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine is cutting cases of cervical cancer by nearly 90%, the first real-world data shows.…