Wearing masks even outdoors will be mandatory in Paris starting on Friday, French authorities have announced, as the country struggles to come to grips with an Omicron surge. France is leading Europe in new infections, with a record 208,000 new cases confirmed
A negative antigen test used to detect Covid-19 hangs on a Christmas tree in Lausanne, Switzerland on December 24, 2021. © Fabrice Coffrini, AFP Pope Francis called for more solidarity with those living in poverty as he celebrated mass in Rome
More than 2,300 flights were cancelled around the world Friday and thousands more were delayed as the highly infectious Omicron variant disrupted holiday travel. One route, however, was thankfully not affected: Santa was on track delivering presents to children across
Two doses of AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines provided much lower levels of protection against symptomatic infection compared to what they provide against delta, the UK Health Security Agency said. Regardless of the initial vaccine a patient received, a Pfizer-BioNtech booster
The United States has confirmed its first case of the new, heavily mutated coronavirus variant called omicron, in Northern California. The variant, initially known as B.1.1.529, was first detected in South Africa, the World Health Organization said. Scientists will need
People wear face masks on the London underground, as the spread of Covid-19 continues in Britain on November 30, 2021. © Hannah McKay, Reuters The fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus had on Tuesday been detected in a number of new
The 2021 FISU Winter Universiade has been scheduled to run between December 11 and 21 in Lucerne and the six cantons of Central Switzerland © Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS MOSCOW, November 29. /TASS/. The 2021 Winter Universiade in Switzerland’s Lucerne has been cancelled
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa on Sunday urged countries to follow the science rather than imposing flight bans in a bid to contain the new Omicron coronavirus variant. Dutch health authorities said on Sunday they
The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday. The cases emerged just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread. U.K.
Marc Van Ranst, who works with the Rega Institute for Medical Research, said a sample was confirmed as the novel B.1.1.529 variant in a traveler who returned from Egypt on Nov. 11. Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke told reporters that