Director-general says many other countries face fragile situations

India's number of cases surged by 349,691 in the past 24 hours

While much of the world remains hunkered down, the band Six60 has been playing to huge crowds in New

Global COVID cases surpass 138.8 million

India's financial capital is home to half of the country's new cases

Rochelle/Walensky worried about relaxation of measures and rise in travel as COVID-19 cases tick up

It is first reported increase in region after six weeks of decline

Disease control official warns that new virus variants could lead to more infections and deaths

Tedros said that as vaccines are rolled out around the world, it is important to continue to take th

Team of scientists is just beginning long process to discover origins of coronavirus

Peru, South Korea work to control outbreaks 

The government expects 1.5 million vaccine doses to land in South Africa by February

Finland, South Korea detect first cases of new COVID-19 variant that was first identified in Britain

Frenchman living in England Brings COVID-19 variant to Tours

Germany is heading for a second lockdown, South Korea to open dozens of free COVID-19 testing sites/

New York City closing schools, states imposing new restrictions on restaurants and businesses

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells reporters at regular briefing in Geneva that the case increases are

Italy latest European nation to impose strict restrictions as continent suffers second surge

World's leading country in total number of infections also topped 50,000 hospitalizations Tuesday 

US records over 500,000 new coronavirus cases during latest one-week period, breaking previous recor

World Health Organization's director-general says nations need to make honest assessments

Nearly third of day's new cases are in Europe

Agency says 90% of population still susceptible to virus

India has 4.5 million COVID-19 cases in total

A new daily record for infections pushed the country past Brazil

Havana said to have recorded 269 coronavirus cases last week, the highest tally since start of pande

Country is reporting its first locally transmitted infections in months

The number of cases has increased a record amount for two days running, the World Health Organizatio

Mask mandates, lockdowns, health checks, quarantine orders underscore reality that number of infecti

The southern US state now has nearly 270,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and has seen 4,346 deaths 

Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom are reopening Saturday, while Epcot and Disney'

United States tops 3 million confirmed cases, including a record-high 60,000 new cases Wednesday

Among hardest hit - Texas where hospitals are at capacity and at least 8,700 new COVID-19 cases, a n

US, Brazil, India lead in number of new confirmed cases

Among those inmates with coronavirus, at least 35,796 have recovered, and at least 616 have died, th

India reported more than 20,000 new infections on Monday, and the U.S. has confirmed more than 40,00

Vice President Pence cancels some events as some Southern states see spike in cases

The S&P/ASX in Sydney had the biggest losses in the region, plunging 2.5%, and  Japan's Nikkei index

Death toll in region surpasses 100,000  

More than 183,000 new cases in last 24 hours, WHO said Sunday

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appoints high-ranking military official to oversee quarantine faciliti

China reports 11 new cases

World Health Organization's emergencies chief Mike Ryan cautions countries and regions against reope

On Friday, it topped Russia to become the world's virus hot spot behind US

Health officials continue to warn about threat of resurgence if lockdowns are eased too quickly

The number of people who have the novel coronavirus in New York state has doubled to 22 following an

In a meeting with pharmaceutical executives, the president asked them to accelerate vaccine developm

US authorities are trying to determine whether a new coronavirus patient is the first case of so-cal

The report by the semiofficial Mehr news agency came as Iranians voted in nationwide parliamentary e

We're encouraged by this trend, but this is no time for complacency,' Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sa

The relatively small number of cases and deaths outside China shows the window of opportunity to con

All schools and universities, including religious Shiite seminaries, were shut down in the holy city

But death toll on mainland rises to 2,118, along with at least 10 outside of China, including two pa

ISNA quoted an official in the country's Health Ministry, Kiyanoush Jahanpour, as saying that 'some

Government under pressure to do more to contain fallout of virus

Health commission confirmed 1,843 new cases, representing a drop from higher numbers of new cases in

The US is 'deeply concerned' that North Koreans are vulnerable to coronavirus

More than 1,700 health workers have been infected and six have died 

Executive director of WHO's Health Emergencies Program, Michael Ryan, says cases are not based on cl