Close to 20,000 people have died in hospital in the United Kingdom after testing positive for the new coronavirus, data showed on Friday, as Britain approached a milestone it had hoped never to reach. As the death toll rose relentlessly, speculation mounted that Prime Minister Boris...

World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests, drugs and vaccines against COVID-19 and to share them around the globe, but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative. “We are facing a common threat which we can only...

The race is on to produce a vaccine against COVID-19 but it is not certain that one can be found, the head of the global vaccines alliance said Friday. Seth Berkley said the more competition the better in the scientific fightback against the new coronavirus pandemic, which has killed nearly...

Italy is to ease its coronavirus lockdown, the toughest and longest in Europe, over the next four weeks, media reported Friday although there was no official confirmation. "The next four Mondays will mark the country's reopening" following the lockdown implemented last month to slow the...