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After an epic volcanic eruption and tsunami, virus-free Tonga fears risk of COVID-19 exposure from outside aid workers

Pet owners told not to kiss hamsters after infected hamsters imported from the Netherlands tested positive for COVID-19

With a 1.1 million jab delivery in Rwanda, COVAX reaches its one billion milestone

According to government officials, Russia's coronavirus epidemic has reached a tipping point

It’s the second-highest temperature recorded in the Argentine capital in 115 years, and 700,000 people there have lost power

Many countries have closed classrooms on and off, but Uganda had kept more than ten million students at home since March 2020

The United States needs a strategy for a "new normal" of living that includes COVID-19

An estimated 1.85 million new pediatric cases of asthma worldwide are linked to NO2, a gas emitted from vehicles

The agency will also allow some immunocompromised children as young as 5 to get an additional dose

The island had a 4,600 percent increase in cases in recent weeks after mounting one of the nation’s most successful vaccination campaigns

Mike Ryan, head of the health emergencies program at the WHO, on COVID in 2022: "It's very, very, very hard to predict"

For many Afghans who escaped the Taliban, the journey has only begun