THE World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu as the Acting Regional Director for Africa.

Public health experts evaluate the global and financial impact of the U.S. leaving the World Health Organization.

Even bigger obstacle to digitally driven structural change in the economy, especially in Germany, is the growing digital-technology gap between the European Union and the other two global economic ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first case of the virus was identified in December 2019 and was linked to a seafood market in ...

Germany's likely next chancellor is being criticized for relying on support from far-right lawmakers to pass a bill to reduce migration into the country.

Which side has more sex appeal?” This was Maximilian Krah, a highly controversial and outspoken, far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician speaking to CNN in Halle, eastern Germany ...

SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Non-active site mutations such as L50F are crucial ...

Despite loud protests and criticism from its own ranks, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party wants to immediately implement party leader Friedrich Merz's controversial five-point plan to stop ...

A live-updating map of novel coronavirus cases by zip code, courtesy of ESRI/JHU. Click on an area or use the search tool to enter a zip code. Use the + and - buttons to zoom in and out on the map.

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‘The ‘mild’ days of Omicron are over’: How new COVID strains could double the 10k death toll ...