The WHO chief warns against suggestions by some to just allow COVID-19 to spread in the hope of achieving so-called herd immunity, saying this was "unethical."

Two Americans together with a British win Nobel Medicine Prize for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.

A WHO expert says researchers are making "good progress" in developing vaccines against COVID-19 but their first use cannot be expected until early 2021.

The UN chief says the world is “paying a heavy price” for not following a united approach to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

A mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation, poverty, and anxiety by the pandemic of COVID-19, UN health experts say.

Some 4,342,354 people are now diagnosed with COVID-19 around the world, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Iran’s Leader outlines how an economy made robust through enhanced production at home can fend for itself and fight off various intrusive elements such as sanctions.