The Delta variant is upending assumptions about coronavirus disease even as nations loosen restrictions and open their economies, virologists and epidemiologists say.

Dozens of commandos from one of the Israeli regime's special units have reportedly contracted impetigo and were sent home on sick leave.

Iran receives two batches of rare disease drugs from Qatar amid tight supplies because of US sanctions.

Millions of children whose immunizations have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic are now at risk from life-threatening diseases, the UN warns.

A senior Chinese health official rejects allegations that Beijing withheld data from a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nearly two-thirds of 1.2 million people polled worldwide say humanity faces a climate emergency, a UN survey says.

Prominent Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi passes away at the age of 85 in a hospital in Tehran.

War, famine and disease are just a few crises Yemen has been dealing with in over five years since the Saudi-led war broke out in the Arab country.

Scientists say they had developed a way of predicting if patients will develop Alzheimer's disease by analyzing their blood.

The WHO chief warns against suggestions by some to just allow COVID-19 to spread in the hope of achieving so-called herd immunity, saying this was "unethical."