WHO urges countries to keep calm and take rational and risk-reduction measures in response to the new, fast-spreading COVID variant Omicron.

The United Nations voices its concern over the enforced disappearance of 95,000 people and 52,000 unidentified bodies in Mexico, amid reports of systemic impunity.

China has already supplied nearly 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Africa, where vaccination rates have fallen behind amid growing concern over the spread of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Many countries have blacklisted South Africa and its neighbors in an attempt to prevent the new COVID-19 Omicron variant from reaching their lands, which has angered the African countries.

The Italian Health Authorities confirmed on Sunday that the Omicron covid-19 variant, a heavily mutated strain of the virus recently identified in southern Africa, has been detected in an Italian man who had just returned from a business trip in Mozambique.

Top US infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci has called on Americans to prepare to fight the spread of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron, but says it is too soon to implement lockdowns.

The new Omicron variant of coronavirus may already be in the United States, says Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Thousands of protesters take the streets of Vienna in the wake of Austria's announcement of a lockdown to start on Monday and obligatory vaccination for all starting from next February to combat the spread of Covid-19.

The European Commission says COVID-19 cases are on the rise in almost all of the EU's 27 member states. High hospital admission numbers are putting health systems under pressure.

The Yemeni government has criticized the killing of ten Yemeni prisoners by Saudi mercenaries in the port city of Hudaydah.