Coronavirus Outbreak World

May 7, 2021 | 7 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — G. Balachandran turned 80 this spring — a milestone of a birthday in India, where he lives. If not for the coronavirus pandemic, he would have been surrounded by famil...

May 7, 2021 | 5 MIN READ

NEW DELHI — Under order by the Supreme Court, India’s government on Thursday agreed to provide more medical oxygen to hospitals in the capital city of New Delhi, potentially easing...

May 7, 2021 | 5 MIN READ

GENEVA — Several world leaders Thursday praised the U.S. call to remove patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help poor countries obtain shots. But the proposal faces a multitude of...

May 1, 2021 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will restrict travel from India starting Tuesday, the White House said Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of poten...

May 1, 2021 | 6 MIN READ

RIO DE JANEIRO — For most of this month, intensive care units throughout Brazil were at or near capacity amid a crush of COVID-19 patients, and sedatives needed to intubate patients dwin...

April 23, 2021 | 5 MIN READ

SAN LORENZO, Panama — Biologist Claudio Monteza pushed through thick vegetation to install a camera near a Panamanian highway in a dense tropical rain forest. Securing the device to a tr...

April 21, 2021 | 4 MIN READ

LONDON — The European Union’s drug regulatory agency said Tuesday that it found a “possible link” between Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine and extremely rare...

April 19, 2021 | 2 MIN READ

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Elation marked the opening Monday of a long-anticipated travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand.

April 19, 2021 | 1 MIN READ

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga asked U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc. for additional supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine to speed up his country’s inoculation drive, which...

April 18, 2021 | 6 MIN READ

RIO DE JANEIRO — The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening cri...

April 16, 2021 | 4 MIN READ

RIO DE JANEIRO — Reports are emerging of Brazilian health workers forced to intubate patients without the aid of sedatives, after weeks of warnings that hospitals and state governments r...

April 16, 2021 | 3 MIN READ

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A photo symbolizing “love and compassion” of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse through a transpare...

April 16, 2021 | 4 MIN READ

PARIS — France on Thursday became the third country in Europe after the U.K. and Italy to reach the unwanted milestone of 100,000 COVID-19-related deaths as new infections and deaths sur...

April 16, 2021 | 1 MIN READ

GENEVA — A top official from the World Health Organization says Europe has surpassed 1 million deaths from COVID-19 and the situation remains “serious,” with about 1.6 millio...

April 15, 2021 | 2 MIN READ

NEW DELHI — India reported more than 200,000 new coronavirus cases Thursday, skyrocketing past 14 million overall as an intensifying outbreak puts a grim weight on its fragile health car...

April 8, 2021 | 5 MIN READ

LONDON — British authorities recommended Wednesday that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine not be given to adults younger than 30 where possible because of strengthening evidence that the...