COVID-19 variants

The advisory is aimed at preventing a shortage of hospital beds, as the highly infectious delta variant of the coronavirus, first detected in India, continues to spread rapidly nationwide.

Experts are concerned about complacency setting in as people resume social and business activity in the face of waning infections.

Health authorities battled to contain the country's most widespread coronavirus outbreak in months.

In the Kanto area, Tokyo and the three other prefectures set to join it under the new state of emergency all reported single-day record caseloads.

Sydney's poorest neighborhoods on Friday braced for military enforcement of the city's toughest and longest lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. will ask every federal worker to either declare they are fully vaccinated or wear masks and be tested.

The variant is scaling some of the toughest virus defenses, with outbreaks occurring despite strict anti-virus measures.

The tiny city-state that relies on being globally connected is eyeing the resumption of some international travel by September.

For some in the U.S., masks are a potent symbol of the darkest days of the pandemic in 2020, before vaccines were available.

Around the globe, people and governments are finding out that COVID-19 won’t be thrashed into extinction, but is more likely to enter a long, endemic tail.

The delta variant is the fastest, fittest and most formidable version of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 the world has encountered.

"A major outbreak, in which past countermeasures are not able to be effective, is starting to occur," warned a doctor in Yokohama.