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Pakistan’s planning minister says the country’s drug regulatory authority has approved the use of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and the government is trying to make it available by the first quarter of the year

Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi is testing his already low popularity by provoking a political crisis that could bring down the government at yet another critical juncture in the fight against the pandemic

Across the Balkans and other nations in southeastern Europe, a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus is being overshadowed by heated political debates or conspiracy theories that threaten to thwart the process

A California congressman contracted the coronavirus before he could get a second dose of vaccine that would have improved his immunity

A city government in eastern China says the coronavirus was found on ice cream produced there, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch

China is reporting 109 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, two-thirds of them in a northern province that abuts Beijing

Ex-Florida COVID-19 data curator Rebekah Jones says she'll surrender to authorities Sunday amid an investigation that she allegedly hack into the state’s emergency response system

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Nestlé Prepared Foods is recalling more than 762,000 pounds of pepperoni Hot Pockets

He was also ordered to repay more than $287 million.

There are concerns this year because of COVID-19 pandemic and political unrest.

President-elect Joe Biden is pledging to boost supplies of coronavirus vaccine and set up new vaccination sites to meet his goal of 100 million shots in 100 days

Several governors expressed exasperation at the Trump administration after being assured that the federal government had enough vaccine stockpiled to speed up or expand state rollouts only to be later told those reserves don’t exist

The heart-healthy diet might offer anti-aging and cancer progression benefits.

India has started inoculating health workers in what is likely the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign, joining the ranks of wealthier nations where the effort is already well underway

China has finished building a 1,500-room hospital for COVID-19 patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to contain and that it blamed on infected people or goods from abroad

For as long as Shimray Wungreichon can remember, many of the people in her mountain town had little respect for the work she did. “A nurse’s job is said to be noble, but in our part of the world it is interpreted differently,” said Wungreichon, a nurse in Ukhrul, a remote town in India’s northeastern state of Manipur. “We are looked down on as a service profession.” The coronavirus pandemic changed that. Wungreichon was among the first of many Indian health workers to be vaccinated on Saturday, opening a new chapter in the battle against the pandemic in the world's second hardest-hit country, which has been scarred profoundly by a virus that has killed more than 152,000 of its people. “I am very positive about it," said Wungreichon, a nurse for 14 years who described getting vaccinated as a “normal routine” for her. The 43-year-old's town escaped the worst of the pandemic, which has ravaged most of the country. But like so many health workers fighting the virus at the...

President-elect Joe Biden is proposing a $1.9 trillion plan to expand coronavirus vaccinations, help individuals and jump-start the economy

Doctors in the Amazon rainforest’s biggest city are having to choose which COVID-19 patients can breathe amid dwindling oxygen stocks and an effort to airlift some of the infected to other states

Uncertainty over the pace of federal COVID-19 vaccine allotments is triggering anger and confusion in some states

Mexico has posted a record spike in coronavirus cases with 21,366 newly confirmed infections, about double the daily rate of increase just a week ago

More Californians than ever are dying from the coronavirus --  525 every day

New Jersey made millions of people eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including smokers, a move that prompted gripes about them skipping to the front of the inoculation line

President-elect Joe Biden is pledging to boost supplies of coronavirus vaccine and set up new vaccination sites to meet his goal of 100 million shots in 100 days

A federal judge has ruled that Alabama’s requirement for a transgender person to undergo full gender reassignment surgery before they can change the sex on their driver’s license is unconstitutional

A California lawmaker wants to ban some medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children until they are at least 6-years-old

The European Union’s drug regulator says that COVID-19 vaccine documents stolen from its servers by hackers have been not only leaked to the web, but “manipulated.”

The federal minimum wage would be raised to $15 per hour.

The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief says “it's too easy” to blame variants of the coronavirus that have emerged in places like Britain, South Africa and Brazil

Biden says he'll use Defense Production Act to 'maximize manufacture' of coronavirus vaccine, fulfilling campaign pledge

The coronavirus vaccines have been rolled out unevenly across the U.S., but some states in the Deep South have had particularly dismal inoculation rates

As states across the U.S. roll out the COVID-19 vaccine to people 65 and older, senior citizens are scrambling to figure out how to sign up to get their shots

The U.K. is toughening up its entry requirements beyond its surprise decision to ban travel from South America and Portugal

 A federal lawsuit says Georgia’s plan to overhaul how state residents buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act would “tear a hole” in the ACA

A federal report says the coronavirus pandemic has taken away about a third of the commercial fishing industry’s revenue

U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer has confirmed it will temporarily reduce deliveries to Europe of its COVID-19 vaccine while it upgrades production capacity to 2 billion vaccine doses per year

The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 2 million

The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 2 million

Lebanon’s parliament has approved a draft law allowing imports of coronavirus vaccines as the tiny nation hit a new record in case numbers and more hospitals reported they were at full capacity

Even more variants may be identified in the coming weeks, experts said.

Couples go on dates, families dine out at restaurants, shoppers flock to stores. Face masks aside, people are going about their daily life pretty much as normal in the Chinese city that was first hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a remarkable turnaround for the 11 million residents of Wuhan, a city devastated by the coronavirus. The commercial hub on the mighty Yangtze river spent 76 days in lockdown last year, from January to April. Overwhelmed hospitals sent the less seriously ill home, where they infected others. More than 3,800 people died, accounting for nearly 90% of the official coronavirus deaths in mainland China. Today, some residents marvel that what was once considered the most dangerous place because of the pandemic may now be one of the safest. Bundled up against the winter cold, they walk briskly down a pedestrian-only shopping street that was a ghost town at the height of the outbreak. Authorities remain on guard ahead of next month’s Lunar New Year holiday, when...

The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 2 million as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat

Senator-elect Raphael Warnock of Georgia has received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine

The global death toll from the coronavirus has topped 2 million, according to Johns Hopkins University data

Dr. John Brownstein discusses how an increase in vaccine eligibility is contributing to the shortage, plus more on President-elect Joe Biden's plan to fight COVID-19.

China says it is now treating more than 1,000 people for COVID-19 as numbers of cases continue to surge in the country’s north

President-elect Joe Biden has picked a former Food and Drug commissioner to lead vaccine science in his drive to put 100 million shots into the arms of Americans in his administration’s first 100 days and stem the COVID-19 pandemic

President-elect Joe Biden is nominating New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell to serve as the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator

Norwegian officials have adjusted their advice on who gets the COVID-19 vaccine in light of a small number of deaths among very frail older people, leaving it up to each doctor to consider who should be vaccinated

Biden announces former FDA head David Kessler as chief science officer for vaccine drive to stop spread of coronavirus

A city in northern China is building a 3,000-unit quarantine facility to deal with an anticipated overflow of patients as COVID-19 cases rise ahead of the Lunar New Year travel rush