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Sports
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World
11/30/2021 10:34:55 AM
Portuguese health authorities on Monday identified 13 cases of the omicron coronavirus variant among members of a professional soccer club and were investigating whether it was one of the first reported cases of local transmission of the virus outside of southern Africa.
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World
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International
11/28/2021 8:54:46 PM
The Netherlands moved into a tougher lockdown Sunday that was announced amid spiking infections even before the country recorded its first confirmed cases of the new, more highly transmissible omicron virus variant.
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World
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Region
11/28/2021 5:52:31 PM
Morocco is suspending all incoming air travel from around the world starting Monday for two weeks because of the rapid spread of the new omicron variant, the Foreign Ministry announced Sunday.
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Sports
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World
11/28/2021 10:33:37 AM
Portuguese club Belenenses started a league match against Benfica with just nine players after an outbreak of coronavirus in its squad on Saturday. It was later called off just after halftime.
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World
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Africa
11/26/2021 6:59:45 PM
The discovery of a new coronavirus variant sent a chill through much of the world Friday as nations raced to halt air travel, markets fell sharply and scientists held emergency meetings to weigh the exact risks, which were largely unknown.
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Sports
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World
11/17/2021 6:07:09 PM
Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich have been hit by a fresh Covid-19 scare ahead of Friday's match at Augsburg, with defender Josip Stanisic and two club employees testing positive for the virus.
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World
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International
11/14/2021 4:52:37 PM
At the main hospital in Romania's capital, the morgue ran out of space for the dead in recent days, and doctors in Bulgaria have suspended routine surgeries so they can tend to a surge in COVID-19 patients. In the Serbian capital, the graveyard now operates an extra day during the week in order to bury all the bodies arriving.
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World
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International
11/13/2021 1:40:02 PM
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday called for a "national effort" to break a fourth wave of coronavirus that is sweeping Germany and again urged people to get vaccinated.
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Sports
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World
11/9/2021 4:12:24 PM
Germany defender Niklas Sule has tested positive for the coronavirus and four more players are in quarantine as a precaution ahead of World Cup qualifying games against Liechtenstein and Armenia.
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Sports
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World
11/5/2021 12:31:30 PM
A German second-division soccer game could be called off after one of the clubs reported 18 new cases of the coronavirus among players and staff.
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Sports
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World
11/2/2021 3:56:23 PM
Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann will return to the bench against Benfica in the Champions League on Tuesday after missing four games with the coronavirus.
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World
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International
10/28/2021 10:34:01 AM
Moscow on Thursday shut shops, schools and restaurants for 11 days in a bid to stop a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths that came after vaccination efforts stalled.
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World
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International
10/27/2021 7:38:31 PM
At least 59,000 meatpacking workers became ill with COVID-19 and 269 workers died when the virus tore through the industry last year, which is significantly more than previously thought, according to a new US House report released Wednesday.
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Sports
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Omni sports
10/27/2021 10:27:52 AM
Protecting the Beijing Winter Olympics from the coronavirus is the "biggest challenge", organisers said Wednesday, as millions of people in China were under stay-at-home orders to contain small outbreaks 100 days before the Games.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/25/2021 3:12:27 PM
Yes, as long as the virus that caused the pandemic keeps infecting people. But that doesn’t mean new variants will keep emerging as regularly, or that they’ll be more dangerous
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Egypt
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Health
10/21/2021 12:21:10 PM
Egypt reported 47 new deaths related to Covid-19 complications on Wednesday - the highest death toll for a single day since the start of the fourth wave of the pandemic in the fall nationwide making the total number of deaths from the virus jump to 18,105.
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World
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International
10/21/2021 10:29:26 AM
Authorities in China cancelled hundreds of flights, closed schools and ramped up mass testing on Thursday to try and stamp out a new Covid-19 outbreak linked to a group of tourists.
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World
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International
10/20/2021 9:19:10 PM
Under pressure from rising infections and worried health experts, the British government on Wednesday urged millions of people to get booster vaccine shots but resisted calls to reimpose coronavirus restrictions such as mandatory mask-wearing.
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World
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Region
10/20/2021 5:30:37 PM
Morocco is suspending flights to and from Britain, Germany and the Netherlands due to concerns about coronavirus trends in those countries, official sources in the North African kingdom said Wednesday.
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World
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International
10/19/2021 6:25:53 PM
Moscow's mayor on Tuesday ordered the city's first coronavirus restrictions since the summer, as Russia registered 1,015 daily COVID deaths, a new record.
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