HEALTH

China's capital Beijing has begun offering booster shots against COVID-19, four months before the city and surrounding regions are to host the Winter Olympics.

Qantas Airways has brought forward its plans to restart international travel from Sydney as Prime Minister Scott Morrison predicted tourists would be welcomed back to Australia this year.

New Zealand’s government has set an ambitious target of fully vaccinating 90% of all eligible people to end coronavirus lockdowns.

The Democrats’ social spending and climate change bill would put the United States back on a path to reducing its persistent pool of uninsured people.

As of Thursday, Virginia is reporting 913,100 cases of the coronavirus across the commonwealth since March 2020.

Texas is urging the Supreme Court to leave in place its law banning most abortions and telling the justices there’s no reason to rush into the case.

The coronavirus that caused the pandemic can keep evolving as long as people are still getting infected, but that doesn’t mean new variants will emerge as regularly or that they’ll be more dangerous.

India is celebrating giving its billionth COVID-19 vaccine dose.

Two new reports show that death, disease and other health problems linked to global warming are rapidly rising.

South Africa has started giving COVID-19 vaccinations to adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years, with a goal of inoculating at least 6 million people from this age group.

As of Wednesday, Virginia is reporting 911,321 cases of the coronavirus across the commonwealth since March 2020.

U.S. regulators are extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Scientists have temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 909,499 cases of the coronavirus across the commonwealth since March 2020.

President Joe Biden’s most aggressive move yet to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is almost ready to see the light of day.

For more than 55 years, Medicare has followed a simple policy with covered benefits the same, no matter if you’re rich, poor, or in-between.

The South African drug regulator has rejected the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, citing some safety concerns the manufacturer wasn’t able to answer.

U.N. agencies say Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have agreed to a nationwide polio vaccination campaign for the first time in three years.

Mental load: Are you familiar with that term?

Federal regulators are expected to authorize the mixing and matching of COVID-19 booster shots this week.

Romania has hit daily records of both coronavirus infections and deaths as the country grapples with an acute virus surge amid alarmingly low vaccination uptake.

Federal health officials are rethinking their approach to controlling salmonella in poultry plants in the hope of reducing the number of illnesses linked to the bacteria each year.

Facing a surge of seriously ill COVID-19 patients, the head of an intensive care unit at a Moscow hospital says the situation could easily have been avoided if more Russians were vaccinated.

Many scientists are pressing the British government to reimpose social restrictions and speed up booster vaccinations as coronavirus infection rates that are Europe’s highest rise still further.

New Zealand counted its most new coronavirus cases of the pandemic as an outbreak in its largest city grew and officials urged vaccinations as a way out of Auckland’s two-month lockdown.

Los Angeles County is seeking to compel psychiatric evaluations for Kobe Bryant’s widow and others to determine if they truly suffered emotional distress after first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball star, his teenage daughter and seven others.

Despite getting vaccinated against COVID-19, Colin Powell remained vulnerable to the virus because of his advanced age and history of cancer.

As of Monday, Virginia is reporting 907,882 cases of the coronavirus across the commonwealth since March 2020.

A Czech official says health problems are preventing Czech President Milos Zeman from carrying out his duties.

Slovakia has reimposed coronavirus restrictions in the hardest-hit parts of the country amid the latest surge of infections.