Hundreds gather in Stockholm to protest against Covid vaccination passes after the government recently expanded its use.

Britain records 438 new deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily toll in almost a year, as the coronavirus' Omicron variant spreads very fast across Europe.

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, the World Health Organization chief said Tuesday, cautioning against a narrative that the fast-spreading Omicron variant is risk-free.

Australia records its highest number of fatalities from COVID-19 amid the rise in cases of the Omicron variant across the country.

Japan’s Osaka prefecture is set to report a record-high of 6,000 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as the union government moves to impose tougher restrictions amid a rapid surge in the Omicron strain.

Scientists have warned that Omicron’s whirlwind advance won’t be the last variant of the coronavirus this year and that it’s difficult to predict how quickly the new variant would spread.

In the wake of steep rise in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Omicron variant, thousands of nurses on Thursday staged nationwide protests against working conditions in hospitals across the US.

The US Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the government’s COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses in the country.

As the Omicron variant of Covid-19 sweeps the United States, empty supermarket shelves have become the latest sign of the pandemic's ongoing disruption to the country's supply chains.

Frustrated with the government’s lackluster response to the rising tide of COVID-19 cases, Democratic lawmakers in the US are pressing the Biden administration to do better in curbing the pandemic.