The United States has now recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally.

China has dispatched military and thousands of healthcare workers to help carry out COVID-19 tests for 26 million residents of Shanghai, in the country’s biggest public health response ever.

Taking a cue from demonstrations that paralyzed Canada's capital city for weeks, US truckers on Wednesday plan to embark on a 2,500-mile cross-country drive toward Washington to protest coronavirus restrictions.

A veteran American journalist and a contributor to Forbes says he was sacked from the magazine for exposing financial dealings of the top US infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci

The UN chief decries the “inequity” in COVID-19 vaccine distribution and hoarding of vaccines by rich countries, which has prolonged the fight against the pandemic.

Iranian government is to recruit around 50,000 teachers by the end of the year to late March.

Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will do its best to deliver safe and splendid Olympic Winter Games, as preparations for the event have been complicated by the coronavirus pandemic.