Latest on coronavirus

China reported a sharp drop in new covid-related deaths during the Lunar New Year holiday, even as a spike in travel increased the likelihood of more infection…

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing switching to a once-a-year coronavirus shot that targets the strain expected to pose the greatest threat during t…

U.S. health officials want to make covid-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Wednesday her official support for the constitutionality of a state ban on mask mandates, reversing a stance held by her …

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a Missouri appeal that sought to ensure states can cut taxes even as they receive $195 billion in federal pand…

BEIJING -- China reported Saturday nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had covid-19 since early December following complaints it was failing to release data, an…

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday she has disbanded five government covid-19 pandemic groups and committees that were established under the previous…

Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergartners dropped again last year and federal officials are starting a new campaign to try to bring them up.

A vaccine safety monitoring system in late November picked up a signal that the updated Pfizer coronavirus vaccine booster was possibly linked to an increased …

WASHINGTON -- David Kessler, who helped steer President Joe Biden's covid-19 policy, will leave the administration -- as the government's response continues to…

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday she has disbanded five covid-19 pandemic groups and committees that were established under the previous administra…

Japan and South Korea defended public health restrictions on travelers from China on Wednesday, a day after China stopped issuing new visas in both countries i…

After years of separation from his wife in mainland China, Hong Kong resident Cheung Seng-bun made sure to be among the first in line after the reopening Sunda…

The European Union on Wednesday "strongly encouraged" its member states to impose pre-departure covid-19 testing of passengers from China, in a move that is li…

BEIJING -- The Chinese government sharply criticized covid-19 testing requirements imposed on passengers from China and threatened countermeasures against coun…

No novel covid-19 variants have emerged in China, according to a global consortium that's tracking coronavirus mutations, potentially easing concerns that the …

After two recent flights from China brought almost 100 coronavirus-infected passengers to Milan, Italy on Wednesday announced that all arrivals from China woul…

China is planning to calculate, then release, excess mortality data as a record wave of infections engulfs the country and doubts grow about the accuracy of it…

As China resumes issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years -- setting up a po…

Persistent loss of smell, or anosmia, as experts call it, is one of long covid's strangest symptoms -- and researchers may be one step closer to figuring it ou…