Covid is putting a damper on Christmas and New Year’s Eve events for the second year, as it forces the cancelation of celebrations and travel plans.

Research reveals that ethnic groups are at far greater risk of dying in the UK from Covid-19 than those with white skin.

Blanket vaccine booster programs are likely to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic, as inequity in access to jabs could lead to more mutated variants that drag out the crisis, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns.

Pfizer Inc's oral antiviral COVID-19 pill was authorized on Wednesday for at-risk people aged 12 and above, making it the first at-home treatment for the coronavirus.

The United States' population grew at a slower rate in 2021 than in any other year on record as the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the more subdued growth the country has experienced in recent years, the US Census Bureau said.

Britain's GuardianBritain's Guardian newspaper on Sunday published a picture of Prime Minister Boris Johnson alongside his wife and up to 17 staff partying in the Downing Street garden during lockdown in May 2020. newspaper on Sunday published a picture of Prime Minister Boris Johnson alongside his wife and up to 17 staff partying in the Downing Street garden during lockdown.

More law enforcement officers have died from complications related to COVID-19 than from gunfire in the past two years, according to data compiled by The Associated Press.

US President Joe Biden warned that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is going to spread more rapidly in the country and a winter of “severe illness and death” awaits the unvaccinated.

Omicron multiplies itself 70 times more quickly in tissues that line airway passages, which may facilitate person-to-person spread, researchers say.

Members of the European Parliament debate the dire health and economic consequences resulting from the resurgence of COVID-19 across the 27-country bloc.