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Experts at the agency that regulates drugs for the European Union say they found a “possible link” between the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots after a small number of cases were reported in the United States

The agency that regulates drugs for the European Union says a warning about rare blood clots should be added to labels for Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine

European regulator says benefits of Johnson & Johnson vaccine outweigh risks despite 'possible link" to rare blood clots

European regulator finds "possible link" between Johnson & Johnson's vaccine and very rare blood clots

A former researcher at an Ohio children's hospital has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets and sell them in China

There is no stopping flowers when they bloom, blossoms when they burst

Rahul Gandhi, an opposition Congress party leader and scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi family, says he has tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing mild symptoms

Thailand's prime minister, under intense criticism for failing to secure adequate supplies of coronavirus vaccines, says his government is negotiating to buy 5 million to 10 million doses from U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer

India's health system is collapsing under the worst surge in coronavirus infections that it has seen so far

Japan’s western metropolis of Osaka has decided to ask the government to declare a state of emergency in the region after ongoing alert measures failed to control the spread of a more contagious coronavirus variant

India's health system is collapsing under the worst surge in coronavirus infections that it has seen so far

Malaysian opposition lawmakers, led by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, have submitted a petition to the palace seeking an end to a coronavirus emergency so Parliament can resume

You should wait, medical experts say, but you should still get vaccinated.

Vaccine hesitancy rates have been dropping, but many are still wary of the shot.

A clinic on the Baltic coast has become a major rehabilitation center for COVID-19 patients from across Germany, treating 600 people over the past year

A debate about whether to set marijuana policy based on potency is spreading as more states legalize cannabis

Asian American families are wrestling with whether to send their children back to classrooms as high schools, middle schools and elementary schools across the country widely reopen amid rising anti-Asian harassment

Yong Sin Kim, an 85-year-old Korean immigrant living in a senior apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles, says he rarely leaves home these days. When he does, he carries a whistle with him; at least he could call for help if he's attacked. Three floors up in the same building, Hyang Ran Kim, 74, waits for her daughter to pick her up. She is temporarily moving into her daughter’s place in a quieter neighborhood in the suburbs. Kim says her daughter is worried about her safety. Amid a surge of anti-Asian violence, fear creeps in and alters the daily life of vulnerable Asian seniors. Asian Americans have been targets of discrimination, threats and violence that have escalated in the past year because the coronavirus pandemic originated in Wuhan, China. Some have blamed former President Donald Trump for fanning flames of intolerance by calling COVID-19 the “China virus” and “kung flu.” People of Asian descent have been spit on, beaten and told to go back to where they came from....

ABC News’ MaryAlice Parks reports on reluctance among conservatives to receive the coronavirus vaccine, and doctors now in Congress trying to promote vaccination efforts.

For the first time in a year, Mexican school children have returned to classrooms — at least in the southern state of Campeche

San Diego County’s transportation agency has apologized and agreed to pay $5.5 million to the mother of a mentally ill man who died after a security officer kept a knee on his neck for several minutes

Medical providers in Tennessee would be required to cremate or bury fetal remains from surgical abortions under legislation advanced by the GOP-controlled House

Customers will pay $23.99 for a pack of two tests.

A growing number of companies and labor unions are securing coronavirus vaccines for their workers

A top workplace safety regulator has warned the Republican leaders of the Iowa Legislature that conditions inside the state Capitol are hazardous and may be exposing workers to the coronavirus

A senior defense official tells The Associated Press that prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center can now begin getting the COVID-19 vaccine

New Delhi has imposed a weeklong lockdown to prevent the collapse of the Indian capital’s health system amid an explosive surge in coronavirus cases

The attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death outlined the disputed concept of excited delirium at trial

Alaska’s highest COVID-19 vaccination rates have been in some of its remotest, hardest-to-access communities

Advocates for the disabled are pressing the Biden administration to cancel student debt for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have disabilities that make them eligible them for debt forgiveness but who have not received the benefit

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has urged governments, vaccine developers and the international community to “step up their game” to fight vaccine inequity

Senior defense official tells AP that Guantanamo prisoners can begin getting COVID-19 vaccinations starting Monday

Germany’s health minister is welcoming the announcement by two pharmaceutical companies that they will deliver more coronavirus vaccines during the second quarter than previously predicted

Congress has poured tens of billions of dollars into public health since last year, when the coronavirus pandemic was declared

"No more confusing rules. No more confusing restrictions."

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called off a trip to India amid surging coronavirus cases in the country

Greece has lifted quarantine restrictions for travelers from most European countries, as well as Israel and the United States as it prepares to reopen tourism services next month despite an ongoing emergency in pandemic-related hospital care

Elation marked the opening of a long-anticipated travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says her state could be seeing a drop in infections after leading the nation’s COVID-19 daily case rate for weeks

A renewed crush of COVID-19 cases is again forcing intensive care units across France to grapple with the macabre mathematics of how to make space for thousands of  critically ill patients

Half of all adults in the U.S. have now received at least one COVID-19 shot

Roughly 32% of adults are now fully vaccinated, the agency said.

Half of U.S. adults have now received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, CDC says.

Turkey's Health Ministry says there were 318 deaths due to COVID-19 over 24 hours, the highest daily count since the start of the pandemic

French President Emmanuel Macron says he foresees at least some tourists returning to Paris this summer if they have gotten vaccinated or have proof of testing negative for the coronavirus

U.S. scrambles to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the border alone.

Germany remembers the nearly 80,000 dead in the COVID pandemic.

Iran’s daily coronavirus death toll has climbed over 400 for the first time in months, as the country, which has long had the region’s largest outbreak, battles a post-holiday infection surge

The images show the intimacy of husbands and wives saying goodbye for the last time, or reuniting after months apart. They honor the courage of nurses, funeral workers and clerics who risked their own health to do their jobs. They witness life slipping away, and being snatched back from death. To mark the milestone of 3 million COVID-19 deaths worldwide, The Associated Press asked 15 photographers in 13 countries to pick the single image they shot that affected them the most, and explain why. Their selections document the staggering human toll as COVID-19 robbed millions of their lives, and millions more of their basic freedoms and day-to-day routines over the past year. But their reflections tell a deeper story, guiding the viewer to see and understand a once-in-a-century pandemic through the eyes of people who had the privilege and horror of witnessing it up close. Just like their subjects, the AP photographers were terrified they might get infected and bring the virus home....

Japan's prime minister has asked Pfizer for additional supplies of the vaccine.