The risk of needing to stay in hospital for patients with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is 40% to 45% lower than for patients with the Delta variant.

More than two dozen people injured in Friday’s bomb attack in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province have been transferred to Iran for treatment.

A fire broke out on the roof of a New York hospital, leading to two minor injuries and the evacuation of the emergency room.

The crush of new COVID-19 infections in Mississippi has become so dire that the state has turned to efforts reminiscent of the earliest days of the US pandemic, when a field hospital was set up in New York's Central Park and a medical ship was moored in the Hudson River.

US bed shortage prompts Houston hospital officials to send sick baby for COVID treatment to another town.

The death toll from wildfires on Turkey's southern coast rises to eight as firefighters battled for a fifth day to contain blazes still raging in coastal resort towns.

Iran expresses its preparedness to render assistance to neighboring Iraq after a fatal fire tore through the COVID-19 isolation ward at a hospital in the southern city of Nasiriyah.

Raging fire engulfs a training hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, reportedly killing more than 60.

Suspected Taliban militants have fired a rocket at a hospital in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, sparking a blaze that caused extensive damage and destroyed COVID-19 vaccines.

The spokesman for Yemen’s health ministry says at least one child dies every five minutes in the country because of the brutal Saudi-led blockade.