HEALTH

BEIJING  — Shanghai allowed 4 million more people out of their homes Wednesday as anti-virus controls that shut down China’s biggest city eased, while… Read more

WASHINGTON  — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is developing guidance that will ease the nationwide mask mandate on airplanes, buses… Read more

LONDON  — The British government confirmed Saturday that people with COVID-19 won’t be legally required to self-isolate starting next week, as part… Read more

COVID-19 vaccine sales boosted Pfizer earnings well past analyst expectations in the final quarter of 2021, but the drugmaker is setting a lower-than-expected… Read more

Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing… Read more

Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall’s… Read more

BERLIN — The World Health Organization says the number of COVID-19 cases recorded worldwide increased by 11% last week compared with the previous week,… Read more

The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters, ruling that 16- and 17-year-olds can get a third dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.

The U.S. and many other… Read more

Pfizer said Wednesday that a booster of its COVID-19 vaccine may offer important protection against the new omicron variant even though the initial… Read more