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The World Health Organisation has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and adolescents may not necessarily...

China has set out urgent plans to protect rural communities from COVID-19 as millions of city-dwellers plan holidays for the first time in years...

While many Chinese embrace new-found freedoms after the country dropped key parts of its tough zero-COVID-19 regime, some cities are warning residents to maintain...

Public health experts are increasingly optimistic the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight. The World Health Organisation has advised the pandemic could soon...

India and China have cleared a new approach in COVID-19 vaccination - two needle-free options, one a squirt in the nose and the other...

Scientists advising the World Health Organisation on monkeypox say the window is closing to stop its spread, with cases doubling every two weeks, raising...

Australia will provide money as part of a new global fund to help protect countries against future pandemics. Speaking at a G20 virtual meeting, Health...

Beijing's most populous district Chaoyang has announced three rounds of mass testing to quell a "ferocious" COVID-19 outbreak that emerged at a bar in...

The number of new coronavirus cases reported globally fell everywhere last week except in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, according to the World...

Exaggerated media reporting during the initial months of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout stoked the global spread of rumours about alleged adverse events, a new...