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In this U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has only confirmed cases in Alabama thus far, the agency said in a statement to NBC News on Thursday, though other cases are being investigated.

While Covid deaths are dropping, testing has also fallen, a trend that worries World Health Organization officials.

The World Health Organization says at least one death has been reported in connection with a mysterious liver disease outbreak affecting children in Europe and the United States

The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality.

The World Health Organization says the number of people killed by the coronavirus surged by more than 40% last week.

It’s been two years since Covid-19 crept across the globe, battered the U.S. economy and wreaked havoc on health-care systems unprepared to defend themselves against the novel pathogen. Now, as the latest wave of infections driven by the fast-spreading omicron variant rapidly subsides, many are beginning to question: Is Covid-19 becoming endemic? “There’s a high probability we’re moving into...

The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths globally have continued to fall in the past week

An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said it “strongly supports urgent and broad access” to coronavirus vaccines, including booster doses

Some European countries are being urged to “have a little more patience” as Covid restrictions are lifted.

Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned.

After their Paycheck Protection Program loan applications were rejected, some small business owners got creative to stay afloat during the Covid pandemic.

Omicron has almost completely replaced the delta variant of Covid-19 in England, a new study has found.

Doctors have warned that vaccine hesitancy around Covid could be “creeping into” sentiment toward other vaccines.

The WHO’s top official said it’s dangerous to assume we’re in the endgame of the pandemic — but with the right action, the Covid emergency could end in 2022.

A huge new global study found that drug-resistant bacterial infections played a part in almost 5 million deaths in 2019.

Covid-19 will never be eradicated, but society has a chance to end the public health emergency this year, a senior WHO official has said.

The head of the World Health Organization says he’s worried about the omicron and delta variants of COVID-19 producing a “tsunami” of cases between them.

Reactionary political movements fostered vaccine inequity and “created the ideal conditions for the emergence of new variants,” WHO’s leader said.

World Health Organization officials warned vaccine inequality could lead to the emergence of more mutant Covid variants.

The World Health Organization says the number of COVID-19 cases involving omicron is doubling every 1.5 to three days in countries where there is community transmission of the variant and not just people who were infected abroad