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Britain’s medicines regulator has approved AstraZeneca’s antibody-based COVID-19 treatment for preventing infections in adults with poor immune response, marking a major step in the fight against the pandemic as infections …

BEIJING — Companies in Shenzhen, a major Chinese business centre, will be allowed to reopen while efforts to contain coronavirus outbreaks progress, the government said Thursday, following a citywide shutdown …

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Officials in South Korea tried to calm public fears amid concerns about a faltering pandemic response as daily cases and deaths reached record highs Thursday. The …

Canadian travellers who have been deterred from leaving the country due to COVID-19 testing requirements may now find themselves rushing to book a trip abroad thanks to news that the …

Cruise ships are set to return to Canada’s ports next month for the first time since 2020, with some rules still in place to guard against the spread of COVID-19. …

CROWN POINT, IND. — When their 11-year-old son started losing weight and drinking lots of water, Tabitha and Bryan Balcitis chalked it up to a growth spurt and advice from …

WHITEHORSE — Yukon will be lifting its state of emergency, imposed back in November when rising COVID-19 cases threatened to swamp the territory. Premier Sandy Silver says the drop in …

Global drugmakers condemned on Wednesday an initiative by four World Trade Organization members to introduce an intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines, saying it could undermine the industry’s ability to …

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Wednesday her nation was "ready to welcome the world back" with most tourixjmtzywsts allowed to return by May as …

TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday announced plans to fully lift coronavirus restrictions on March 21 as new infections driven by the highly contagious omicron variant slow. …